This morning,
many of you may
have seen
The Today Show.
They talked about
traveling with your pets.
It's a very serious topic
and we want to continue
where they left off.
Like many of you,
we love to travel
with our peeps,
but we want to travel safely.
Where we live,
out in the country,
we tend to see a lot
of people with dogs
in the back of their pickups
and we always wonder
how these dogs maintain
their composure if their owner
has to make a really quick stop.
Rarely are they secured
in any way.
When we get ready to travel,
our truck gets really packed down
and we all know that
we'll either be wearing
harnesses and seatbelts
or in a crate.
A dog should not
ride in the front seat
because if the airbag ever deployed
it could seriously injure the dog.
Lilly has broken this rule
many times.
But she is always strapped in.
As you can see,
Lilly wears a harness
when we travel.
According to
The Today Show,
there are no harnesses made today,
that really protect dogs like they should.
But we feel that anything
is better than nothing.
A dog that is not secured
while it is riding
is not only a distraction
to the driver,
but becomes a projectile
during an accident.
We have seat belt leashes
that hook into the seat belt
and then hook onto our harnesses.
Not only are they great in the car,
they are handy to use when we get out
because we are already leashed up
and ready to go.
If we are not
harnessed and leashed
to a seatbelt while traveling,
we are always crated.
Even though,
we are all microchipped,
we never leave our house
without some type of identification
on our collar.
This is especially important
while you are traveling.
And it is extremely important
for a traveling dog to wear a collar -
even if you're just going
to the corner store.
A dog that is involved
in an accident
or one that gets
separated from his peeps
is really scared
and hard to catch.
if he's wearing a collar,
it makes it so much easier.
We just want you all
to stay safe.
XOXO
Lilly, Piper and Ivy
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