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I’d like to take my dog for grooming, but I don’t want to put it in my new car, because her fur will be all over. Any suggestion to resolve my headache?
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6 Responses
2008 Jul 21
Sorry, but that’s all part of dog ownership. Hair hair everywhere. Try putting a doggie slip cover on your seat when traveling with your pet. They have all different kind at petsmart. I just use an old quilt that I put on the seat. Then when he gets it all hairy you just remove it wash it and use it again. A vacumm works wonders too on getting dog hair out of the seat fibers.
2008 Jul 25
travel crate which is safer anyway or put a sheet for the dog to lay on
2008 Jul 25
What do you do when you take it to the vet?
If you have an SUV, you could put it behind the seats in the cargo area with one of the gate barrier things.
Or you can drape a blanket over the seats.
Or put its kennel/carrier into the car.
But I just bring them into my car without hassling with that stuff. There’s a neat thing called a vaccum to clean up with afterwards.
2008 Jul 28
do you not let the kids in your new car either?
2008 Jul 31
Your best bet is to crate him and add a crate pad in the bottom of the crate. Beneath the crate, add a beach blanket to cover your seats and then another to cover the floorboard.
This will prevent any fur from getting into your car’s seats.
Also, PetsMart offers a cover that goes over the entire backseat area of many specific brands, models, and types of cars that you might wish to invest in if your dog knows how to stay when you tell him to stay. If he is not a good rider, then opt for the crate method.
I have a guide dog and am a 2x guide dog handler. I always brought along a beach towel to place in the floorboard of the seat because my guide almost always sits with me in the floor of my seat unless we are in a vehicle with a passenger side airbag. In those cases, I normally lay out a beach towel in the floorboard of the back seat, tell him to “up,” which he knows means to get up into the vehicle, and then “stay,” which he knows means to stay where I place him until we get where we are going.
I will not risk his health and life with a passenger side airbag deployment with him at my feet so I go against general rules of transportation in that respect when riding with friends or family. however, in cabs, which I use as little as possible because of $$$, it is a non-issue since there are no backseat airbags yet. He sits in the floor with me in the seat with him as he sits at my feet between home and destination.
Every cat I ever had went in a crate because none did well riding. My Pom did great but he was a fuzz-ball no matter what was done. I simply put him in a nice fuzzy blanket to take him to the groomers and then I had a clean fuzzy blanket or towel to bring him home. He loved to ride and was never car sick. None of my dogs were ever carsick, come to think of it. It was only my cats. My current cat, a rescued domestic short hair, hates to ride. He gets crated EVERY TIME. He goes ballistic when he has to ride.
2008 Aug 01
TAKE A COUPLE OF OLD BLANKETS AND PUT THEM OVER YOUR PRECIOUS SEATS. WHAT IS MORE IMPORTANT A CLEAN HAPPY HEALTHY DOG WHO LOVES YOU AND IS YOUR COMPANION OR A BIG PIECE OF METAL AND PLASTIC?