Dog safety - All the Creatures

When I lived in California it was common for dogs to ride in the beds of pick-up trucks. Because dogs were getting injured or killed or they caused traffic accidents, laws were made to dictate that the dog must be secure and not be in any danger.

I was in a chain reaction accident on the freeway once when a dog was riding on a flat bed truck and jumped off the truck in the middle of the 8 lane freeway. Cars were breaking and swerving all over the place. The car I was in did not hit anyone in front but got rear ended by a car that also got rear ended. The dog was hit but ran off into traffic. I never did find out what happened to the dog. I don't know if anyone was injured but I am sure there was a lot of property damage.

When I moved to Oregon years ago, I was surprised and relived to find out that most dogs that traveled in the back of pick-up trucks were hunting or ranching dogs. Those dogs are very valuable to their owners and those owners treated them right. The great majority of dogs travel in dog boxes that fit into the truck beds. They are pricey little truck accessories that are mostly made of stainless steel.

It is nice to see that some parts of the country treat their dogs like the precious cargo that they are.

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Jan S says:

I did at one point have lots of videos on the blog, but my stats proved that people were just not viewing them. Since videos take up bandwidth and download time I started to limit them on the blog. My statcounter tells me that people love to READ about animals and look at some of the more unusual and funny animal photos I share with everyone.

I would much rather see a dog in a steel crate in a pick-up truck bed than on a rope tied in the bed. The steel is meant to protect the dog should the truck roll. The plastic crates are no good for that type of protection. Of course if there is room for the larger breeds of dogs in a crate inside the car – which I doubt since you cannot often get the crates through the door opening, then I say go for it. Trucks also just don’t have room inside the cabs if it is a single cab truck for a large dog crate.

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