Posted on 02/21/2023 9:15:01 AM PST by Right Wing Vegan
A new Florida bill would make it illegal to let a dog be in a driver’s lap or stick its head out of the window of a moving car.
Senate Bill 932, filed by Democratic state Sen. Lauren Book of Broward County, includes other restrictions for pets in vehicles and would also ban the declawing of cats.
It would make it illegal to have a dog transported “on the running board, fender, hood, or roof of a motor vehicle” as well as in a trunk or enclosed cargo space. Dogs also could not be transported in a car that is being towed. $2, or more? How much rare bills could be worth beyond their printed value
The bill would also require dogs to be secured in a crate appropriate for their size while in a motor vehicle on a public roadway or to be restrained with a safety harness or seat belt other than a neck restraint or under the physical control of someone other than the driver.
Dogs transported in open truck beds of pickups would have to be in a well-ventilated crate that provides them with proper footing. They would also have to be protected from inclement weather and and direct sunlight. The bill says a dog must also be able to turn around normally, stand or sit, and lie down in a natural position inside the crate while it is secured to the pickup truck.
Violators would face potential moving violation citations, though the charges would not count as a criminal traffic infraction.
The bill also sets rules for cat owners, making declawing them illegal if it is not for a necessary medical therapy. If a cat is declawed or partially declawed, the state would be able to fine the owner $1,000. Individual incidents of a cat being declawed or partially declawed would legally count as separate violations.
One of the bill’s major provisions would allow courts to ban offenders from owning animals as a condition of probation.
The bill also adds a number of bans on cosmetic testing of animals for “any article intended to be rubbed, poured, sprinkled, or sprayed on” or otherwise meant for humans instead of animals, such as cleansers, beauty treatments, or items that “promote attractiveness” or for altering one’s appearance.
As written, product manufacturers would be prohibited from applying any of the above products on “live, nonhuman vertebrate” animals. However, keeping the data from previous tests does not count as developing a product for the purposes of the bill’s language.
Democrats love regulating people. Now they want to regulate your pet.
Florida Man wants to know: will this impact transporting alligators in pickup trucks?
I forsee jury trials with multiple re-sets based on the most thinly plausible reasons.......
Lol...
I always get a kick out dogs sticking their heads out. I say hello to them sometimes.
Only from the perverted, sick mind of a Demonic Party scum could something this stupid be considered for legislation - kill as many babies as possible, but legislate the protestion of animals while driving. Sick, evil, vile scum.
Doggie kill joys…
Dogs love to stick their heads out! Sniffing the world without getting tired.
HAHA!
Once politicians start getting a government (State, Federal, Local) check, they seem to have way too much free time on their hands. I don’t think the dogs are going to like this. I want to see the fool who wants to enforce this crap.
Don’t worry, dogs will continue to vote Democrat. Being a marginalized species, they know their best chance at equality and opportunity lie in progressive Democrat policies.
I’ve been in a serious MVA. Our car was hit, rolled, and totaled.
I can’t imagine what would have happened to an unsecured pet.
Do I agree with this being mandated?
Nope.
But, if I had a dog, I wouldn’t allow her to have her head out the window while the car is in motion.
And my cat travels crated with the crate secured.
STUPID click-bait headline.
What it should read (emphasis added):
Florida bill WOULD ban dogs from sticking heads out of car windows, SET other rules for dogs and cats
The bill was never passed and therefore does not actually ban anything.
Well, if you put it THAT way...😁
The government wants to control every aspect of your lives.
A vet explained to me - because smell is a much greater sense for dogs, sticking their head out of a moving car window and having all those smells rushing at them at 40 mph is like humans going a high-tech, interactive, 3D, virtual-reality movie on a scale that hasn’t been invented yet.
Now we know why they haven’t legalized shooting stupid people. /s
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