Dog Meets Baby Blog

Properly restraining your dog can be the difference between life or death for the passengers and the dog in the case of a sudden stop or car crash.

Alyssa whom I met through my Instagram account, messaged me recently:
“My husband has a truck and I have an SUV. The dogs can go in my SUV trunk, although they aren’t secured to anything. And I’m realizing in my husband's truck there wouldn’t be anywhere for them to go besides right next to the car seat. My dogs have been amazing with the little one, but my anxiety just can’t help but think WHAT IF? I already feel like my trunk isn’t “secure” enough, but right next to the car sear is even worse!”

That WHAT IF question is the one that prompted me to look into it as having a 60 pound loose dog next to 6-pound babies didn’t feel safe at all.

No unrestrained dogs in the car, ever!

Unrestrained dogs can:

• interfere with pedal operation
• interfere with the effectiveness of airbags
• become incredibly forceful projectiles and injure othe
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