Heck, around here, some of the drive-thru places have treats at their windows, and ask your permission to offer the dog a treat. I am 50/50 on the dog in car thing - I won’t drive with the good-looking pooch to your left on my lap, but he has a dog carrier that slips around the headrest and provides a sort of soft-sided bucket for him to sit in, and he can see out. But it wouldn’t restrain him completely if we were hit badly.
I always assumed Seattle would be a dog-friendly city.
Busdriver,
We had a doggie seatbelt for our cavalier. It never seemed to work right and he’d manage to get himself all tangled up in it and get off the back carseat. I truly think it was as dangerous, if not moreso, for him, although it kept him from becoming a doggie missile if we had ever been in a car wreck. I do know people who have been injured by their dog being sent flying into them when they (the dogs) were unsecured and the car either stopped suddenly or was in an accident. This is really not something to make light of. Its dangerous.
I am not misunderstanding you, sorghum. You said in post #585
And I sorely disagree. (pun intended).
And you really need to put a degree on the level of impairment of a temporary vs chronic disability, sorghum? I would also disagree with you that the degree of difficulty and acute impairment for my family members on those flights after their injuries was every bit as challenging, and worthy of equal “sympathy” as an individual with a chronic disability. Good heavens, this isnt a competition.
If my child had a condition in which their airway could be cut off by being in an improper position, I would have the correct seat to ensure that her head was supported correctly, not rely on the airline to accommodate me. IMO, the parents were negligent in not providing adequate safety equipment for their daughter.
Oh yeah, a pet parade! That would make her crazy.
I do need to figure out something that will work for the dogs. They make a huge ruckus in a kennel. The black one will sit in the passengers seat, and let you put the seatbelt around her (though I don’t know if that is even safer). The white one sits in the drivers lap (she is always ready to take the wheel), but she is absolutely frozen, never moves.
I rationalize it knowing that it’s dangerous, but it’s a short distance, just about the only place I take them, I have never been in an accident in 36 years of driving, all the usual reasons. I really need to find some sort of restraint for them that they will tolerate. Maybe doggie seats with an attachable, edible squirrel? Someone needs to invent that for us.
Seattle is very dog friendly, and most drive throughs give treats, especially Starbucks. But not this sourpuss!
Surely somebody can come up with a pet device that is worthy of Shark Tank.
Is that so hard to understand? HOW they got the injury.
You made a competition of trying to be equal with Ivy. It is rather unseemly.
I will not post further on this issue. Everyone has made themselves abundantly clear.
@sorghum, so the manner in which the disability was acquired should dictate the amount of sympathy and accomodations?
“Surely somebody can come up with a pet device that is worthy of Shark Tank”
Wouldn’t you think? There is a need, and a demand. I hope it involves a squirrel.
Bus, this really happened?
Sure did, Deborah. Really had a rant published about me. I am most certain, by the description, it was very specific. And I haven’t even started searching for a good dog restraint system until this thread. So some good has some out of it!
If you find something good, let us know. I tried a doggy seat belt once and it was a nightmare to use and the dog certainly expressed his opinion about it too.
I’m thinking of a toddler like seat with a tray attached in front, and the driver can push a button for the treat to dispense as needed. Or maybe there is an app for that!
“I’m thinking of a toddler like seat with a tray attached in front, and the driver can push a button for the treat to dispense as needed. Or maybe there is an app for that!”
That sounds awesome. And it has to be comfortable, since they fall asleep immediately.
Will report back if anything like that is found.
Just have to post real quick so we can have two pictures of three cavaliers right in a row…
… however, neither of us can never change our avatars, or this won’t make sense.
Okay, if I change my avatar, it will only be to another cavalier picture. Because what’s better than that? You have such a pretty boy.
Unless, of course, the Seahawks make it to the Super Bowl, then the avatar will change for a week!
I’ve always had big dogs and I’ve always had some kind of station wagon. The dog sits in the way back. The only exception to that was my foster pointer, who was terrified of riding in the car. First, he could only ride if H drove the car, and he “sat” on the floor in front of me in the passenger seat with most of him in my lap and my arms around him. I had to be covered with a big towel because he was also drooling to an extraordinary degree out of fear. Eventually we moved to my driving and him lying across the passenger seat attempting to put his head in my lap and drooling, then he became comfortable enough to sit up in the seat and look around. At this point, after he fell of the seat several times when I had to stop somewhat abruptly, I moved him to the way back. (All of these car rides were required to take him to places where he could safely run flat out for an hour or more.)
A friend who has a tremendously spoiled Lhasa/Tibetan spaniel cross always drives with her in his lap. I thought he was the only one. 
When it comes to Ivy and showing compassion, it is difficult for me to figure out how an FA who values her life enough to want her to be as safe as everyone else is a villain. Seems to me that it is the MOTHER who valued sitting in premium more than her D’s safety, since she (or the father) could have stopped the whole thing in its tracks by saying, “Okay, if she HAS to be in a seat then I will have to move back to coach so she can be buckled in and lean on me. Our family has 4 seats back there.” But NOOOOO. She wasn’t about to sit in coach because some peon wanted to subject HER to the rules.
I guess we’re not talking about managing special needs on airlines any more… Cavalier thread hijack.
HOW they got the injury is COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT, sorghum. They are injured. And in pain. Not seeing that I am the one who doesn’t understand.
^^^Yeah, don’t mean to be a spoilsport, but it can be frustrating to think the “new posts” have anything to do with the thread, only to find a completely different convo going on.
Maybe the thread has worked its way to its natural conclusion.