Monday, July 12, 2004
 
Activists Are Standing By

This column in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch indicates that Missouri currently does not have seatbelt laws for pets:
    On Illinois and Missouri's state highways, though, that's perfectly legal, police say. Not for a dog to drive with no hands, but for one to roam free in a vehicle. There are no laws against it, and a lot of pet owners let it happen.

    In a 2002 survey by the American Animal Hospital Association, 74 percent of 1,200 pet owners in Canada and the United States said they don't use pet restraints while on the road.

    The association, though, said that could cause trouble. It urges owners to use harnesses, seat belt attachments, or carriers.

    "They help protect pets in case of a collision, and they keep pets from running loose and distracting the driver," the association's Web site says.
Undoubtedly, though, a crack team of activists are, well, acting to ensure this travesty will not continue, and that eventually drivers will not be allowed to have any unsecured item floating around the cabin of the car. Fast food wrappers, CD cases, pets, and loose change--by 2013, legislators will mandate that you need to lock all of these down as though you were piloting the space shuttle through re-entry every time you go down to the U-Gas for a lotto ticket and a fill-up.


- posted by Brian J. @ 9:55 PM
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