Jumat, 29 April 2016

Dog Traveling Etiquette and Safety

      I’ve made a post about traveling and carsickness but I haven’t made a post about general dog traveling etiquette. The main thing about dog traveling etiquette is that you can’t just let your dog have his big head completely out of the car and trying to get it taken off by a truck.  I very much hate it when I see dogs that have their head so far out the window that it looks like they’re about to fall out of the car.
               
     I also hate when I see people with their dogs in their lap, not only that but the dog is trying to look out of the driver’s side window as the person is trying to drive.  Now, Titus does have a bad habit of wanting to sit in my lap, but if he wiggles too much, he’s out because that’s dangerous for both of us, for him to just be wiggling all over my lap as I’m trying to get from point A to point B.
               
     Frequent barkers are also very  bad to travel with.  It’s disrupting to you as a driver to have a dog barking in your ear the entire way, and it’s distracting depending on what the dog is barking at.  If it is inner city and the dog is just barking at walkers, then that most definitely needs to be handled as quick as possible.
              
     I basically give my dogs the entire back seat.  I know that you’re supposed to have little dog car seats and dog seatbelts and whatever else, but that’s one of those things that I just don’t do.  I should, I give you that, but for one dog, it’s just easier to put him in a crate and in the front seat on the floor as he doesn’t care either way and the girl would wiggle her way out of the dog seatbelt or shiver the entire time.  However, I’m considering investing in these things depending on how much more they will be traveling.

              
      Another necessary thing for traveling dogs is a grill.  Not the kind that goes in your mouth or the kind you cook with, it’s a wire rack that looks like something they’d have in a cop car and its purpose is to prevent dogs from getting in the front seat.  This doesn’t actually work for me as mine go under the seat and wiggle to the front that way if necessary, but for big dogs, these things are amazing.

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