What you need to consider is the distance your dog will travel in the car, during an accident. The greater the distance, the greater the force of impact and the greater the chance of serious damage to front passengers and the dogs themselves.

I do not think that having dogs loose in the back, even with a front seat guard is enough I'm afraid.

What posts have disgusted you? Why haven't you answered my question about restraining Jake? All I want to do is try and understand why some people choose to take such risks with their dog's and other people's lives.

How can it when I have a guard
when we travel to scotland there will be a guard too behind our seats.


Jackbox ...
As for ''getting heads around things'' I look on forums and read other people threads I have trouble getting my head round.

However I think well what ever sails thier boat.....

So No I do not have my dogs harnessed, but they do have guards, no they don't stick thier heads out of windows, but they have air con on, No foster children do not go without seat belts.......

and if no-one likes it slam away. I find too many people stand on thier ''perfect high horses'' and look down thier noses, know what, I doubt they are as perfect as they would like us to think

Get the dog guard & shut the windows & youll be sorted

Simples!

i do not think a harness is any safer than a guard, just different. depends what you want.

Mine are caged , which is how id "ideally" like it. Cages can have their disadvantages, i heard of a horror story of a dog in a crash in a cage that acted like a wire cheese grater, howver the dog would have been dead already, dont want to think of my dogs like that. but i consider cages THE best way for "my" dogs to travel.

I was in a contested accident a few years ago where in court the other sides(lying idiot) tryed to say that the dogs had distracted me, luckily i was able to prove what good travellers they were & they were safe & of no danger to me when driving. But still not niceto be questioned in court!

In Chris' car (a Saloon) Teagan has to go on the back seats.
She is harnessed in, but when we have had to break suddenly, she still hits the back of the front seat, and falls on the floor behind the seats!

In the boot of my car (CR-V), she only goes as far as the back of the back seats. She can't go over them as there is a dog guard (plus the seats are pretty high).

A front dog guard doesn't stop the force of impact All it does is stop the dogs climbing into the front cabin.

It's not so bad as long as the rear seats are up because the distance travelled is reduced, but it's still not a safe way to travel. That is a fact, not something I have made up for fun to show myself as being on my high horse and looking down my nose.

Very safe and sensible.

I havent said whether he is restrained or not. If he isnt restrained he could get loose in a crash, or jump around being distracting etc. But restrained in a harness could, like you said, make him difficult to reach in certain situations eg. fire. Also, having a dog in the boot could prove fatal if a car crashes into the back... Every option IMO, could cause problems and it is our decision to make the one we think is best.