Opinion on dogs wearing seat belts? Would you recommend it?

I don't know anyone who actually uses the seatbelts for their dogs. My dogs are crated in the back of my SUV. You don't say whether you have big or small dogs.

Please visit http://www.centerforpetsafety.org/

There are the results from the 2015 Subaru Crate & Carrier crash results. Also, there is video of what happens when dogs are in those seats attached to seatbelts.

Please watch.

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I used seatbelts in a crew cab truck for Years as there was no room for crates it worked the window thing would depend on the siuation (it wasn't a factor in the truck) I DID have one situation where the dog got tangled as the tiedown had been set overlong

They have seats that work with belts for small dogs.

NEVER leave your dog(s) loose in a car, just in case something happens and you are hit by another car and that includes the same with a human child. Whenever I have my dogs with me in a car, they are always in the backseat, in a crate and the crate is always strapped in and secured.

It has been that way all the years I have owned dogs. They were NEVER loose. Good thing because one day, I was driving with 2 of my dogs in the car and I was unexpectedly broadsided by a speeding car, who's driver ran a Red Light and hit me.

The Airbags went off in the front and in the back and on the sides of my car where my dogs were and the Paramedics checked me out and checked my dogs out and the crate and air bags saved their lives, as well as the airbags and seatbelt saving my life. My car was totaled. My dogs and myself, were Thankfully ok. I got a little bruised and banged up from the air bags hitting me, but was generally ok and they were really shaken up and scared from the accident. We were very lucky we survived. We could have all been dead the way my car looked, if we had not all been strapped in and secured.

I told one of my family members who was at the accident scene, to immediately please take both my dogs to my vet to have them checked out and the vet had later told me, that my dogs survived, because they were crated and securely strapped into the backseat.

I would very highly recommend that anyone who is driving with their dog(s) in the car or with their human babies in the car, to please make sure that you are strapped in and your children and your dogs, stay safe and are securely strapped in, making it a little safer. It will save yours, your children's and your dogs lives.

See I am a total **** when it comes to travelling with my dog he loves to have his head out of the window on all the car rides we take together he is well behaved however when I do stop even slightly that he is unsuspecting of i hear him hit the back of my seat with a thump (Labradors are not agile at all!!) Now because you have asked this question I am kicking myself up the backside because the seatbelt does restrain the dog in some ways however what is wrong with us this is our dog they matter just as much as a family member and we need to get a grip! If it restricts your dog but saves their life then can we really judge this? Seriously I worry about someone breaking into my house and taking my dog but have no issue with putting my dog in the back of my car thinking I am a good driver nothing will happen to my dog but what if someone ran into me and my dog got harmed it is no longer just a piece of metal that got damaged but my family member who was hurt, I think we both need to man up and understand that we wear seat belts to protect us and we have to do it for our dogs too. You wouldn't care if your car was smashed up in an accident you are insured but you would care if your dog got hurt. Ugh!! I need to get one and stop putting it off and so do you, we love them we care for them they are our family why are we messing about with this one thing!

In an accident any loose weight becomes a missile. Use a good quality wide harness and attach it to the seat belt.

I've heard of dogs killed because they jumped out of the window. I've also heard of dogs running away in blind panic after an accident.

Its so dangerous to have loose dogs in the car that I wouldn't travel with you and a loose dog.

My sister has a few dogs and she let's them sit in the front seat without a seat belt. The dogs are generally pretty good about keeping themselves from falling over. Keep in mind how difficult and uncomfortable it would be to keep a dog restrained by a seat belt.

I have a friend whose dog flew forward, in an accident, and broke HER neck. She is now paralyzed from the neck down.( the dog died) In an accident, your dog is a flying object that could injure or kill you or your children...not to mention the damage to the dog. Get a restraint, and use it.

Hannah Sweetheart,

I've rear some of your questions, it seems you are bit of tenured in stress and trying to look for peace of mind.

But ask yourself, have you ever attained it?

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