Quote Originally Posted by Miss Z
That's OK, I respect your view, but I still believ it's more of a risk to have a dog in the open on a tuck rather than inside a cabin.
like i said, i was agreeing with you, that's why I said this "I'm not sure of the statistics, so, I can't say much about it, but, it does seem less likely the pet would die inside the car as opposed to being out of the vehicle, but, again...I don't know for sure." mostly the point i'm making is that the people who put their dog in the bed of the truck are probably thinking that it's not enough of a risk to change their ways, same with people who let their dogs ride unrestrained in the cab or in a car (like me!). I know I am taking a risk, even if it is a smaller one than if i put finn in the bed of a truck. Oftentimes it takes a pet dying (either their own or a pet of someone close to them) before someone changes their ways, whether it be letting their pet ride in the bed of a truck or in the car, or letting a pet run free or feeding a pet a certain way or whatever the case might be. Sometimes the risk doesn't seem all that apparent to people who've been doing certain things with their pets their whole lives. Anyway, I'm out. This topic has never been that big of a deal to me, I just always see so many lean towards it being the worst thing you can do to a dog, that I felt like I could take the time to point out that it might not be. Whew, that was a mouthful!