Doggy Seatbelts

• Doggy Seatbelts huskymom Posted : 4/12/2007 1:30:46 PM Can you attach 2 dogs to one seatbelt? As in each with their own harness obviously but attached to one of the car seatbelts? If I get a 5 seater car or truck the dogs will have to share a seatbelt or else one will have to be kenneled in the back of a truck(hopefully with a cap) or we will have to think of other arrangements. If I got a station wagon type car, I could put one of those gate things across the back end but I'm not sure how that would be when we are traveling and have a stroller, two crates, plus regular luggage back there. LIKE 5 REPLIES 74 VIEWS LAST POST HUSKYMOM Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Hunterwayit Posted : 4/12/2007 5:24:59 PM That might be a bit squishy as the seat belt moves with pup same as it does with us, so I'd imagine with two pups on it would pull each other in two directions as well not enough room on the seat for both. But I guess you could try it?! I could try for you this evening as I walk a pregnant friends dog and got a harness for her could try and put both the mad loons on the same belt 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• stardog85 Posted : 4/12/2007 5:44:57 PM Keep in mind that depending on the size of the dogs, having two on one belt might severely stress the belt (past it's weight rating) in an accident. I'd be worried about tangling too myself. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• Hunterwayit Posted : 4/12/2007 5:53:46 PM yeah I'd have to agree with the whole tangling thing as my boy can get himself tangled all by himself if he gets excited 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• huskymom Posted : 4/12/2007 8:14:40 PM Oh tangling. Never thought of that. I've never used a doggy seatbelt before. I don't have a car yet and everytime I've taken Crusher or Onyx anywhere they have been in thier crates. But that was in my dads big van that will hold both crates. I'm still trying to figure out what kind of vehicle to get. But I was thinking if there is only a bench back seat as in a normal car, there would be a baby car seat for Kali plus Kale's booster, which doesn't leave much room for the dogs... Both dogs together only weigh about a buck thirty, so I don't imagine the weight would be too much for the seatbelt would it? But you're probably right, they wouldn't have much room. 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login
• janet_rose Posted : 4/13/2007 1:16:08 AM I don't like doggie seatbelts.  With or without an accident they can get wrapped around a dog and cut off circulation.  In case of an accident where the seatbelt doesn't break, the dog can fly around at the end of a tether - possibly hitting windows, doors, the ceiling, etc.   I don't like plastic crates in a car either - just wire crates reinforced with human seatbelts.  When plastic crates are compressed, the door can pop off.  (Note that dogs should not be in the car's crumple zone - nothing is really going to help them there if the car is rearended.)   Seatbelt vs crate thread: [linkhttp://forum.dog.com/asp/m.asp?m=304838]http://forum.dog.com/asp/m.asp?m=304838[/link]   [size=3]Even seatbelts are better than having a dog loose in the car!!  An accident can turn even a small dog into a deadly projectile.[/size] 0 LIKE Like Share You have posted to a forum that requires a moderator to approve posts before they are publicly available. Hey, it's way more fun when you sign up or log in Connect With Connect With Sign Up Login