Please don't do this to your beloved pet

Oh, I hate it when people do that! Quite common here in Colorado.

Yup, happens here in AZ too.

There's often at least half a dozen small kids thrown in the back too.

I don't like seeing that either, Kim. It's horrid.

I'm nervous enough having my girl in the van without some sort of safety device holding her down. I'm sure they're out there...but I don't own one.

I was about to say they'd never let a child do it and then thought, oh yes some people would.

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Yes, the group of kids hanging out of the bed of a pickup driven by some idiot. People around here do that a lot. I can't stand it--I have to look away.

Cassiopeia said:

Why? Why do people do this? Seriously...I had to stop watching that poor dog pace. I was terrified for it. If I thought I could report them I would have but I don't know there's a law against such a thing. Is there?

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Sadly, there are a lot of morons around. It's dreadful here when you see it in the middle of summer when the temps are well into the hundreds. It's part of a rancher's accessory collection, dog loose in the back of the pick-up and a gun rack hanging on the rear window.

found one:

http://dogs.about.com/od/toyssupplies/gr/petbucklereview.htm

http://www.ohmydogsupplies.com/dog-seat-belt-harness.html

Cassiopeia said:

Thanks for not thinking I'm an over emotional woman. It just kept pacing back and forth and would have to really dig in. It was stop and go traffic. Five lanes jam packed.

I just can't shake the feeling.

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I hate seeing animals being treated badly. If there's any news story, I'll turn the channel or turn the volume down. Sometimes it is hard to put stuff like that out of your mind.

It's been a few years since I've seen an untethered dog on the back of a pickup (or ute, as we like to call them), but I do regularly see dogs tied up with a rope that's too long. Like, seriously, the dog would be better off without a rope at all than one just long enough to hang the fellow if he slips. >_<

you don't mean a dog in the back of a truck, but rather, a dog on the back of a flat-bed truck? is that what you mean? no sides to keep the dog in the box? or do you have issue with both?

Sorry that happened and sure sorry you're so upset, Cassi... People can be thoughtless, unfortunately.

The world is full of stupid, there's nothing none of us can do about that. I always wish when I see some moron do something stupid to a pet, or any animal, that I could do to them what they did to the poor animal. Stupid is as stupid does.

Slight derail warning but slightly on topic as well.

Hubby and I were driving on the highway and noticed something fluffy in the space between a tractor trailer and the cab. It's right behind the cab and there are wires and things hanging down.

Hubby said "Look, there's a stuffed animal on the backside of the cab of that truck" right as I realized it was a chicken...a live chicken clinging for dear life on a wire while the truck screamed down the interstate.

I don't think this was intentional and we tried to get the driver's attention to pull over. I don't know if he did or not, but he saw us waving him down.

Chalk that up to one of the top 5 most bizarre things I've ever seen.

City folk always freak about stuff like that. I've rode in the back of lots of trucks many of times. Its common transportation in rural towns and farm communities. Though I'd be afraid to do it on an interstate. My friends and I did it all the time....and my Dad always let me ride back there when I was a kid, though Mom threw a fit whenever she saw it... of course that was before they made it illegal in the state of Ohio for minors to ride in the back of a pickup truck. But I still do it from time to time (I'm an adult now).

Bear in mind these were never flat bed trucks. Off the road I have rode many wagons and trucks.

Though the dog having no place to hold on I do understand. Like I said, you should never ride a flatbed on the road...and that is basically a flatbed. But if it has sides I don't see much of a problem... as long as you aren't going far or fast or anything.

I used to be that kid in the back of the pickup on the road, before Arizona made it illegal. My dad would let us ride in the back, but we had a camper shell, blankets for padding, and he never went over thirty-five. I lived in an almost-rural part of Utah during high school, and the students took rabid advantage to poor wording of a local law. It stated that a person could not ride in the back of a pickup without some form of restraint. Add that to the hillbilly ingenuity of the locals on a student's allowance, and you end up with a plastic lawn chair anchored with bolts through the legs to ropes on the four corners of the truck, and another rope to hold the person in the chair. I knew one guy who got a hold of second-hand office chairs with metal legs. He welded them together facing out and tied them down. Add in the rope seatbelt, and there's eight people (four in the cab) off to Subway for lunch!

Honestly, I don't know how half the student body made it to graduation.

Dogs have to be properly harnessed in in the back of trucks in CA, and people can't ride back there anymore unless there's a proper seat with a proper seat belt installed.

yeah, what K.Taylor said.
however, it was very common in Wyoming.

I gotcha. I thought you were saying it was terrible that people would let kids or animals ride in the bed of a truck at all. I have known people who thought that was just terrible.

Yeah some people are stupid. 65 mph on a major highway...yeah way dangerous. Though also......side note. How would you tether and animal in the back of a truck? Like a leash? That sounds like asking for a hanging?

And when it comes down to it ya gotta remember. Not all people are animal people and have the same level of affection you clearly do for your animals. Its a shame maybe...but thats how it is.