 Barked: Sun Oct 1, '06 10:40am PST |
 | |  | | Here are a lot of reasons why you should use a crate or seatbelt on your dog when riding in the car!
From a dog email list I am on:
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I was just informed that one of my puppy owners, Dawn DeGuide was just in a car accident, and rushed to the hospital. She had her dog Charlie... red/rust cropped and docked male (16 months old), in the car when the accident happened, he bolted as the officer tried to get him, all the officer was able to get was his collar. The accident happened at Rt 12 and Old Rand Road at 1:30. There was a second sighting around the Honey Lake subdivision where he was hit by a car, but ran again. Charlie has no collar on, and the witness said he yelped when he was hit by the car.
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Another case from my email list:
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>"I just got word that Diane Martin from Chicago, with Smooth the MACH2
> Rottie and Buttercup the AmStaff, was killed in an accident involving her
> RV, somewhere on her way back from the agility trials in Lawrence KS last
>night. Smooth escaped and is still on the run, the other three dogs are
> at a local humane society.
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And another:
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A family traveling from the Chicago area to the UP of Michigan was in a car accident in the Green Bay, WI area early in the morning of June 28th. All of the humans and one dog traveling are okay, but a 4 month old Sheltie pup named Neeko was thrown from the car and is missing.
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And another:
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HELP! LOST DOG in Accident on I-70
> Haskins is a Border Collie
>
> Haskins was in an accident last Friday January 10 along I-70
> east of Plainfield. He is a Great Lakes Border Collie Rescue
> dog that was on his way home to his new family. He is only
> 12-weeks-old and weighs about 12 pounds, with very fluffy
> fur that is black and white with tan eyebrows.
> We found our other lost puppy, Kassi at 6 Point Roads and
> I-70 this last Tuesday. He could be in that area as well.
> Please help us find Haskins! If you see him - PLEASE - pick
> him up.
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And more cases:
"Chris Hallock (a Texas Handler) had an auto accident while returning from Montgomery, PA. He swerved to avoid hitting a deer and his van rolled, the top came off and the crates spilled out. Two Airedales are loose in the woods since 10PM Monday night. The two missing Airedales are males with the call names of Z-rod and Nick. One human passenger was seriously hurt and is now in the hospital in Charleston West Virginia. The accident happened on I-79 near Sutton West Virginia. That is about 50 miles northeast of Charleston West Virginia.
Chris was in the hospital till 5am this morning and has just began to search for the missing Airedales. Their crates came open in the crash and they cannot be found."
(The two missing Airedales were later found-- they had been hit by cars further down the highway and killed.)
Another dog:
"Austin was another "favorite". (cut)............. He was also with me in the car when I had a very bad accident. He was 8 and when the car flipped, his crate broke up. When the fire department got the doors open, he ran scared. It took 3 nights to finally get him to come to someone he knew, and he was my only concern as I lay in my hospital bed unable to try to get him myself."
And another from my email list:
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" We had three dogs in a Subaru Forester, one in a crate
in the rear and two on the back seat. The rear passenger side
window was shattered when we side-swiped the jersey wall on the
right shoulder. When the car finally stopped and we turned to check
on the dogs Maddie, Erica's springer spaniel, wasn't there. We
leaped from the car and checked over the jersey wall, assuming that
she'd been thrown from the vehicle. We didn't see her and then we
turned around and saw her running down the median strip BETWEEN the
north and south bound lanes. Somehow she had managed to cross 4
lanes of I-95 South without being hit. A good samaritan stopped to
help us and drove Erica across the lanes to the median strip in an
attempt to catch Maddie. Another good samaritan was able to pick up
Maddie, unscathed, further south on I-95. This same woman picked up
Erica and returned her and Maddie to the site of the accident.
In the meantime my dog, Max, appeared to be handling things well,
until he heard the fire truck sirens. He also leaped out the
shattered passenger side window, thankfully landing behind the
jersey wall. He stopped about 20 feet down the road, but it took
much begging and pleading on my part to get him to come to me. All
the dogs were later checked by vets and found to be o.k., just a
little shaken up. Aggie, the dog in the crate, was unharmed except
for a scrape on the nose and appeared to be unfazed by the accident.
The moral of this story is use a crate or a seatbelt harness on your
dogs whenever they are in a vehicle. It only takes a second for an
accident to happen and a frightened dog will run from everyone, even
his best friend. "
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