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Come on, fellow pet owners: admit it.\u00a0 You\u2019ve sometimes considered the needs of your furry friends (who you might refer to as your fur-kids) when purchasing a car.\u00a0 I\u2019ve done it myself.\u00a0 I\u2019ve said no to some lovely little numbers in the past simple because they weren\u2019t compatible with our doggo.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t gone so far as to sell a vehicle I already owned because it wasn\u2019t dog-friendly \u2013 although I did do this for my children.<\/p>\n
OK, now we\u2019ve got that out in the open, so let\u2019s talk about it.\u00a0 There you are: the time has come for a new set of wheels for whatever reason and you\u2019re looking for a new car.\u00a0 You want to make sure that all of the family is happy, and this includes the four-legged members of the family.\u00a0 Meaning the dog, that is.\u00a0 Cats don\u2019t always take too well to riding in cars \u2013 some do and some don\u2019t, but dogs usually enjoy riding in cars.\u00a0 So what do you have to think of when choosing a car that\u2019s compatible with your dog?<\/p>\n
First of all, you have to keep the legal stuff in mind.\u00a0 Fortunately, the laws for travelling with dogs are a lot less stringent than the laws about children in cars.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n
While we\u2019re on the topic of dogs in cars, there are two things more that you need to know.\u00a0 First, opening the window a weeny bit doesn\u2019t do much to cool down the air temperature in the car, and it\u2019s cool air that your dog needs to stay at the right temperature.\u00a0 Leaving the A\/C on or parking in the shade does something but not much.\u00a0 And giving the dog water does nothing because the water heats up inside the car as well.\u00a0 The only time that you\u2019re probably OK to leave a dog in a car is if it\u2019s a nasty cold rainy day, preferably during winter.\u00a0 Second, breaking into a car to rescue a dog that you think is suffering inside a vehicle is considered vandalism, breaking and entering.\u00a0 What\u2019s more, if the dog in question isn\u2019t suffering from heat exhaustion \u2013 for example, if it is a chilly day \u2013 the dog will see \u201cstrange person aggressively breaking into my property\u201d and will react accordingly.\u00a0 Dear well-meaning person who tried to break into my brother\u2019s Subaru\u00a0<\/a> (which was parked in the shade with the windows half open during winter) to \u201csave\u201d the pair of pitbulls sleeping on the back seat, you were flipping lucky that said pitbulls were a soppy pair of wimps and not at all like the stereotype pitbulls.<\/p>\n The answer to the question as to what to do with your dog when you\u2019re out and about and need to nip into a shop where you can\u2019t take the dog?\u00a0 Step One is to leave the dog at home but this isn\u2019t always feasible.\u00a0 When I took my dog to the vet and I needed to pick up some bread from the supermarket practically next door, I did not drive home, drop off Doggo then go back to the supermarket!\u00a0 Step Two (which is what I did) is to have the right sort of car: either a ute where you can open the back door of the canopy, which does allow enough air to circulate, or something with nice handy spokes on the alloy wheels or else a towbar so you can tie the dog up outside the car.\u00a0 Step Three is to look for an alternative to tie your dog to.\u00a0 If you\u2019re lucky, your local shops have a spot where you can \u201cpark your dog\u201d outside.\u00a0 Failing that, a parking meter will do and it will keep your dog entertained with the doggy equivalent of social media at the same time.<\/p>\n OK, but what sort of car do you need for when you\u2019re travelling from A to B with Doggo beside you for company?\u00a0 The breed of car will depend on the breed of dog \u2013 and that deserves a post of its own, so I\u2019ll cover it in Part 2. http:\/\/credit-n.ru\/offers-zaim\/turbozaim-zaimy-online-bez-otkazov.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Come on, fellow pet owners: admit it.\u00a0 You\u2019ve sometimes considered the needs of your furry friends (who you might refer to as your fur-kids) when purchasing a car.\u00a0 I\u2019ve done it myself.\u00a0 I\u2019ve said no to some lovely little numbers in the past simple because they weren\u2019t compatible with our doggo.\u00a0 I haven\u2019t gone so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11147,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9010\/revisions\/11147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.privatefleet.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}