Well folks, I hate to be a wet blanket here but here goes. I'm new in the RV arena, but long in the tooth in police work. 20 years in patrol which as you can guess includes several hundred accident investigations many of which were minor injuries due to seat belts, but fatal...yep...FATAL to jettisoned animals. We love our pets...deeply I might add. We love our young two-legged children as well, but would you take a chance letting your 2 year old curl up on a blanket on the dash as you fly down the highway at 70 mph? of course not, so why in the world would we put the other loves in our lives in such a dangerous situation? I've seen pet owners have to be hospitalized with grief when confronted with reality...that being that they didn't get a scratch in their minor fender bender, but their cute lap dog broke his neck when his owner's vehicle went from 25 to zero in a crash. I'm so sorry for being so graphic folks, but, I'm a realist and I lived the reality that I speak of. We can try to justify that we've been letting "fluffy" roam at will for 10 years with no issues. Granted, that could be a testament to your good driving skills, but, in reality, it's more a testament to the fact that you have yet to have an encounter of the closet kind with that bozo who happened to stare too long at his cell phone GPS and didn't see you until the last minute. OK, here's the last piece of graphic info I will lay on you, a sudden stop as a result of a solid crash means your cat/dog/rabbit or whatever, who happens to be (as some of you have stated) somewhere in the coach, will be jettisoned into the first hard object it encounters on it's way towards the windshield...your animal will sustain a major life altering injury but based on my experience...will more than likely die an unnececessary death simply because some of you don't want to make your fur children uncomfortable in a crate for your two to 4 hour road trip. Give it thought folks.
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22 years Navy...Retired. 20 years Law Enforcement...retired. Navy showed me Viet Nam and police work showed me society's worst. Hopefully this 2015 Winnebago View 24m will show me a level of relaxation I've only dreamed of.
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