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Originally Posted by Old-Biscuit
If lead is long enough to allow that dog options he will become a FLYING Object should you have an accident or have to do some HARD Braking
The idea of the seat harness is to keep them SECURED
IMHO ...bad idea on the floor lead
Harness him, crate him but whatever you do needs to secure him while moving
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I was thinking we’d get the tether made from something like seatbelt webbing or climbing rope so that it is designed to handle a lot of weight/force and then it’d be just long enough for him to sit or lie down - with the design of his harness it’d be 1-2’ maximum. We could also have two tie down points installed and run a tether to each one to hold him more like a normal seatbelt would.
His harness is specifically designed to be used for belting dogs in and is crash tested (a lot of the ones in pet stores aren’t!) but it won’t do much good if it isn’t attached to something secure. In a normal car he mostly sits up in the backseat belted in, but l don’t want him to have to sit for hours and hours on the road in an RV. Our car trips are usually much shorter.
(He’s big so a crate that was large enough and sturdy enough to be useful for containing him in the event of a crash would take up a huge amount of room. I wouldn’t trust one of those collapsible ones - we had a previous dog with separation anxiety who peeled the roof off of one of those like a tin of sardines, if he could get it open like that I think in the event of any significant emergency stop or accident the weight of a 125lb dog would just demolish it.)
I primarily want to make sure that it should be possible to secure places to clip his ‘seatbelt’ to. I’d expect to have someone install them who has the tools and skills to secure to something solid, not just a layer of flooring.
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