The Danger Of Car Travel For Dogs: Evaluating Your Risk #164
Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett
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🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
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Do you consider yourself a risk taker? Or maybe you play it safe? What about when it comes to your dog? We all want our dogs to be safe, but there’s one area in a dog’s life where people take highly dangerous risks, and that is when travelling in the car.
In the episode you'll hear:
• That I’m not risk aversive, except when it comes to my dogs.
• Why I decided to never take part in “go to ground” with my Terriers.
• The chances I won’t take with my dogs even though they are so well trained.
• About all the risks people take with how dogs travel in cars.
• Me implore you to please never drive with your dog in the back of a pickup truck.
• The dangers of driving with your dog’s head out the window.
• About how risky it is to drive with your dog on your lap on the front seat next to you.
• How dogs riding loose in the backseat can obsess, leading to anxiety, barrier frustration and aggression.
• That even the cargo area is not safe for you or your loose dog.
• How I set up my car crates and anchor them down out of the crumple zone.
• That a seatbelt attached to a genuinely approved car harness can be a way for your dog to travel in a car.
• About evaluating the risk when you go to put your dog in the car for a ride.
Resources:
1. Podcast Episode 154: Car Vacations With Dogs: Tips To Make Holiday Road Trips Safe And Fun For All - https://dogsthat.com/podcast/154/
2. Center for Pet Safety - https://www.centerforpetsafety.org/
3. Gunner Crates - https://gunner.com/
4. Ruff Tough Kennels - https://rufflandkennels.com/
5. Sleepypod Clickit Harnesse - https://sleepypod.com/
6. Watch this Episode of Shaped by Dog on YouTube - https://youtu.be/ZwM6NaMSf4k
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do you consider yourself a risk taker? I'm not like risk aversive, but I'm not like crazy, |
| 0:06.8 | but I am a quick start. I don't tend to think things through before I jump into it. But |
| 0:12.8 | there's one area of my life. I take absolutely zero risks. And that is the topic of today's |
| 0:19.4 | podcast. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett. Welcome to Shape by Dog. |
| 0:32.7 | You know, in 1999, I quit my six-figure-a-year job to do my hobby full-time. My late husband at that time |
| 0:47.3 | was like beside himself. He, he had sleepless nights. I didn't give it a second thought. |
| 0:52.3 | I wanted to be a full-time dog trainer. He thought that was a crazy high risk. I'm a risk taker. When I was 35 years old, |
| 1:01.5 | I gave my life savings to somebody who had this great idea of an investment and guess what? |
| 1:09.0 | Lost it all. Okay, that wasn't such a great risk. But, you know, |
| 1:12.5 | today I'm in my 60s. I'm a little wiser, but I still do crazy things in the gym and I love |
| 1:17.9 | riding down the Niagara escarpment super fast on my bicycle. So, I still kind of take risks, |
| 1:23.4 | but I got to tell you, my dog's life, I am overtly cautious about. |
| 1:30.7 | I take minimal risks and I take zero uncalculated risks. |
| 1:36.2 | And that's what I wanted to talk to you about today. |
| 1:38.1 | Because I see people taking crazy risks and I think, do they not realize the chances |
| 1:44.1 | they're taking with their dog? |
| 1:45.2 | I remember being at a seminar back in the 90s, it was learning go-to-ground with your terriers, |
| 1:51.3 | where the terriers would go hunting under the earth. And back then, I love to learn about |
| 1:56.1 | new sports with my dogs. And I remember this, I was at this seminar, this gentleman from England was presenting |
| 2:01.8 | and his first line of the seminar. I remember it as clear as day because it was there where I thought |
| 2:07.9 | I'm in the wrong place. Because he said, anyone who doesn't think their terrier is replaceable |
| 2:15.2 | shouldn't be hunting them. And I thought, well, anyone who thinks their terrier is replaceable, shouldn't be hunting them. And I thought, well, anyone who thinks |
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