Posted on 02/20/2023 5:43:31 PM PST by devane617
Florida Sen. Lauren Book (D-Broward) filed a new bill intended to protect animals by making it illegal to let a dog be in a driver’s lap or stick their head out of a window in the car while driving.
Additionally, Senate Bill 932 includes provisions to 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 may also not be transported in a car that is being towed.
On top of those restrictions, the bill would require dogs be secured in a crate appropriate for the size of the dog while in a motor vehicle on a public roadway, be restrained with a safety harness or seat belt other than a neck restraint, or be under the physical control of someone other than the driver if in a car.
Dogs transported in open truck beds for pickups must be in a dog crate that allows them to have good footing, be safe from inclement weather, protected from direct sunlight, and have good ventilation.
The crate must also allow the dog to be able to turn around normally, stand or sit, and lie down in a natural position while the crate is secured to the pickup truck.
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Control.
It’s the scourge of mankind.
D- nanny state of course. My Blue Healer says woof off.
I sometimes have 3 dogs sticking their heads outside my truck. I don’t take them far but it’s pretty funny looking.
>>Florida Sen. Lauren Book (D-Broward) filed a new bill intended to protect animals
Why go halfway, Lauren? Decree that dogs and cats are PERSONS! With voting rights!
(Note: a rep can file any bill they like. Getting it to the floor for a vote? That’s another matter. Getting it passed? Yet another matter.)
What group is behind this?
Dog Lives Matter?
No chance that DeSantis will sign it.
But the demonRATS will come back with it every year until they find a governor to sign it or have a big enough legislative majority to override a veto.
>> I sometimes have 3 dogs sticking their heads outside my truck. I don’t take them far but it’s pretty funny looking.
Especially hilarious if, while they have their heads out the window, they’re declawing cats. :-)
What about putting dogs on the roofs of cars?
Mitt won’t like that.
A step waaay to far. Police statism sucks.
Many years ago there was this short film. I think it was on SNL. In the film you are looking from the eyes of a dog. The owner calls the dog and it hops into the vehicle all excited to be going for a ride. You then see the world flashing by seen by the dog with its head out the window until all of a sudden there is a telephone pole and bop and the film ends suddenly.
One of the joys of being a dog is sticking your head out the window of a moving car. Speaking for a friend.
Do they have a jail for that many dogs?
Cmon Lauren - why arent you writing a law that requires seat belts/restraints for dogs in the cars?
Perhaps airbags for pets?
The lunacy is out of control.
Will my dog have a jury of his peers?
She must have quit her job as policy writer for a Home Owner’s Association.//
Boy - she sure has her priorities in order, doesn’t she? Has she looked around and seen the real problems that exist?
Why? Doesn’t this fascist bitch have anything better to do? We do not need government to tell us how to do everything. These low-IQ pieces of excrement must feel so inadequate that the only way they can boost their precious self-esteem is by controlling people. Self esteem is for those that never accomplished anything.
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