No Driving With Pets in Lap

Helloo...would you drive with your child on your lap? Or 3 children????? It's not safe for man nor beast, yet we all have succumbed to letting them do it because it is easier than saying no, listening to them whine or bark, etc. Any dog riding in the front seat in any capacity is vulnerable to having the air bag deploy and suffocating or crushing the dog. Safest of all is a seatbelt in the back seat. For tiny dogs, crated and strapped in the back seat. If they are loose in the car, even if lying down quietly in the back seat, they can become a projectile, hurting you, themselves, and possibly causing further damage during a wreck. If your dog is loose and interferes with medical treatment being administered to you, an officer, firefighter or EMT can kill the dog, no questions asked. It's sad that something as basic as this has to be legislated.

Under protest but in the back and in my seat belt. Mom's rules and she's a tough one to break.

Well it is a problem that mom and dad are working on, not so much being on the driver but wanting to be in front seat,with 5 that is not a good thing.

Well...this is the only way I can get Eddie anywhere. I've tried the belts, the cages, everything, and he gets SO car sick that he'll puke non-stop unless he's on your lap. This is why he generally only goes on rides to the vets.

I admit, I used to be a bad dog mom and let Zoe ride on my lap. She was always very good and just sits in my lap or looks out the window, but I bought her a car seat and she is now in that ALL the time. It is in the front seat, but my passenger side airbag is not activated. She is close enough to me that I can reach over and pet her when she gets anxious. She is buckled in with a harness and her seat is secured to the seat of the car with the seat belt. I feel much better about her safety (and mine)in the car now.

My guys are very quiet in the car, but I'm guilty of running a quick errand and setting Ted on Layla on my lap....it's terrible and I have no excuse since I've got crates in the car...eeek!

Seriously, can you see me trying to drive with Colton on my lap?! That would be a site.lol

No, I'm thinking we couldn't see you if Colton was on your lap. Ernest tries this from time to time but his Bassetness and my "bassetness" won't fit behind the wheel.

We have to ride in the back in crates when we are together. If one of us goes with mom by ourselves (usually MOI) we have to wear the dreaded seatbelt. I have finally learned to just relax and enjoy it cause mom makes sure she only takes me to fun places where people will adore me.

We have tried driving, but mom says no. I did get the gear shifter in neutral once.....

I am not okay with the this law and hope it doesn't make it's way to Indiana! I am almost 40 pounds and I still enjoy a good lap ride in the car!

My mom can't concentrate anytime I'm in the car so there's no way I'm allowed lap. I like to bark at anything any everything in our path. Stop lights are especially fun.

The only time I ride in the front and on mom's lap is the trip to my sis's school to drop her off, or pick her up. It's just down the street. Otherwise, I'm in the back.

Joe would definitely ride in my lap (or even drive my CAR) if it weren't for the fact that he is tied to the seat belt in the back seat, hahahaha!!! (when we ride in trucks or SUV's, though, he is in a crate :)