Florida bill would ban allowing dogs to stick their heads out of car windows, declawing cats

mypanhandle ^ | 02/20/2023

[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.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Oh mind your own business you damn busybody!

Get a hobby, have a kid, get a life but leave the rest of us alone!

[Texas Radiation]

Is this dog riding in a convertible in compliance or not in compliance with the proposed law?

[TLI]

It is comforting to know that Florida Sen. Lauren Book (D-Broward) believes ALL other problems are fixed and this is now the most important issue to be resolved.

Florida is so lucky to have her.

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[frank ballenger]

RE: Decree that dogs and cats are PERSONS! With voting rights!

Gives one paws. I mean pause.

[Albion Wilde]

[frank ballenger]

Law enforcement: Yes, we’ll get right on it.

They can’t seem to stop the pounding super woofer bass of the filthy obscene rap music we have to endure at each stop light in urban areas.

They say when they get there the perps turned it down.

But they’ll be on the look out for dogs in cars.

[griffin]

Dog Child Safety Seats for EVERYONE!

[frank ballenger]

Fred reading the slab of the Bedrock Daily Slate:
Government to ban foot powered cars in two years. Only EVs will be allowed.

[pnz1]

It’s fun to see a dog with its head out the window, but I do se that if it’s in the driver’s lap/face that’s a distraction.. just like a phone or anything else..

[Scrambler Bob]

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.

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How about how coyotes transport ‘immigrants’ is worse than this?

[princeofdarkness]

Saw that one. Back when SNL was at least halfway funny.

[dfwgator]

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.

Sounds like something Michael O'Donoghue would have written.

[napscoordinator]

That’s the thing. DeSantis has our state so squared away, there is not much to fix.

[napscoordinator]

Has it passed? Signed? Any idiot can put up a bill.

[moviefan8]

I am trying to imagine keeping a dog in a seat belt.

[Z28.310]

Ain’t

No

Freakin

Way

My big dog rides around with her head out the sunroof

#moralbusybodies

[madison10]

Apparently an idiot did.

[midwest_hiker]

Illegal to de- claw your cat, but a 12 year boy can be de-balled.

[Allegra]

“…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.”

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Well OK, I guess it sticking their heads out of the window *while driving* might be a bit risky.

But just dogs? What about cats while driving? Like Toonces?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5fvsItXYgzk

[Trump Girl Kit Cat]

I have now had this little feral for 19 years and she STILL is a complete bitch!! I can hold her for maybe 10 seconds, I know if I am petting her and her tail starts wagging I better stop, have been to the Dr. twice from VERY serious bites on my hands from her, hand swelled up to twice it’s size!! Before I had her clawed she was just a kitten and scratched my face so badly I thought I would need stitches on my face!! I always believed that with time she would come around but 19 years later she is STILL a terror!! I have had kitties my whole life but this one is a terror!! Don’t know I would ever adopt another feral!!