No dogs sitting on the driver's lap? Fine. No dogs riding on motorcycles? Oh, all right. No dogs sticking their heads out of car windows? Hang on a second.
, which concerns animal welfare and covers a lot of ground. It includes language restricting animal testing for cosmetic products, prohibiting the declawing of cats, and creating a public registry of animal-abuse offenders. All of which sounds hard to argue with, no matter how many times a cat has shredded your draperies.
But there's also a provision that will likely rankle dog owners, not to mention dogs. Specifically, the part of the bill that concerns "prohibiting a person from taking specified actions relating to the transportation of dogs on public roadways." What, do they want to outlaw your dog sticking his head out the window? Well, yes, actually. Let's take a look.The first part of the dog-transport section says that you can't have a dog on your lap while you're driving.
Part B says basically the same thing, but applied to motorcycles—you can't let your dog ride in front of you on a motorcycle, even if he wears goggles and puts his paws on the handlebars like he's driving and everyone loves it. Dog in a backpack on a motorcycle? Evidently OK. And as for a cool dog in a motorcycle sidecar, why, we're pretty sure that's the Florida state flag.
We asked our dogs about this, and they said that if you criminalize dogs sticking their heads out the window, then only criminal dogs will stick their heads out the window. Now for the third rule of dog transport: You cannot "allow a dog to extend its head or any other body part outside a motor vehicle window while the person is operating the motor vehicle on a public roadway." Yes, it would be illegal for your dog to stick its head out the window. We asked our dogs about this, and they said that if you criminalize dogs sticking their heads out the window, then only criminal dogs will stick their heads out the window.
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