bonniebird Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 Yes! A brown one, via Maggi/Southern Beardie Rescue! xxxx We had a beardie for 15 years and 4 months we got bonnie beardie x border collies (in my avatar) from Bearded Collie rescue a Southern one but I can't remember which one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eponadeb Posted January 22, 2008 Report Share Posted January 22, 2008 We had a beardie for 15 years and 4 months we got bonnie beardie x border collies (in my avatar) from Bearded Collie rescue a Southern one but I can't remember which one I was looking at your avatar and thinking that she looks a bit gorgoeus and beardie-ish!!! Bless your old beardie at The Bridge, my Sorrel is 5 and a half. She acts like a grand old lady and the Queen Mother though! You'd think she was 108!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JACKYSIAN Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 Sorrel travels with a harness attached to a seat belt. In OH's car this is on the back seat and she would much prefer to be without the harness, but is now used to it and can lie across the back seat in the same position as she would without a harness. My car is a 2 seater sporty number, and at first she wasn't keen on being in the front seat, but is getting better. I put a bean bag in the seatwell that is the same height as the seat (I don't care about my street cred, just want my girl to be comfy!), so she can lie down with her chin on it (she is still in her harness). My car is a convertible and she prefers it in the Summer when the lid is down...she doesn't sit up and so doesn't get the wind in her eyes and ears (if she did I'd keep the roof down), but she seems to love the fact she can smell the outdoors as she's moving. Here we are being Thelma and Louise. She's lovely!!! My mum has a MX5 and her Ben travelled like Sorrel does in yours. She was very stressed when they became a 2 dog family cos she didn't know how to travel with the dogs... easily sorted, she made dad buy an estate!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurel n Hardy Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 (edited) the 3 of mine go on the back seat on a harnesses clipped to the seatbelts however due to her inability to sit still and general nosiness Tess usually creats loads of fuss and can be very distracting. She quite often gets released, the harness clipped to the front passenger seatbelt holder and she sits on my lap acting for all the world like the queen of sheba. Women !!! Edited January 23, 2008 by Laurel n Hardy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrier Posted January 23, 2008 Report Share Posted January 23, 2008 For some reason I can't vote (I'm over 18 and everything!!), but my GH is harnessed on the back seat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramsey Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 Individual crates in the boot here. I have several sizes for transporting rescues, and my back seats come out so I can interchange depending on what Im taking. Generally I keep 2x 36" crates in the boot side by side which fit tightly and Mich always travels happily in one of those. I do also carry a couple of harness' and seatbelt clips to attach them to just incase but I just feel its so much safer for both the dogs and the public in the event of a crash and safer for the pets in the fact that its a deterrant from theft etc... not that I generally leave dogs in the car unattended but you never know! I do think about what would happen with a rear end collision and would like crates with rear doors for another access point (mine have front and side doors - useless when wedged in side by side) but I now have a van with a tow bar which id hope would help and given the odds my vote is still for crates all things considered. I knew someone that had a mastiff type loose in the back seat when he had a collission and the dog crushed the passenger seat and hit the windscreen smashing it to smithereens. Luckily the dog was ok in the long term but it doesnt bare thinking about what'd happen if he was carrying a front passenger, the dog had run across the road, been thrown clean out the front window..... *shudder* Big dog = Bigger Car/van to me, its common sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cycas Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 Big dog = Bigger Car/van to me, its common sense. Oh, that reminds me of a dog I saw in a car the other day - a monstrous Mastiff. The car was an old Escort I think - about that size anyway - and the dog was too tall to fit into it. It's head was sticking out through the sun roof! It made me laugh, but I'm sure that would be nasty in an accident. I hope they weren't going far! Having said that, when I was growing up my mother had a volkswagen karmann ghia convertible with no rear seatbelts at all, and used to just pile up to 4 kids and the dog into the back any old how, with the top down so not even canvas to stop us all falling out. I feel I am lucky to be here today...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billydog Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 When I was born my mum used to transport me round in my carry cot balanced on 2 beer crates behind the seats of her soft-top spitfire sports car I had to be put in via the soft top then zipped in! My dad made her get rid of the car which she loved as he said it wasn't safe Lady who walks where we do has 5 samoyeds in a micra Sorry bit ot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JACKYSIAN Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 (edited) When I was born my mum used to transport me round in my carry cot balanced on 2 beer crates behind the seats of her soft-top spitfire sports car I had to be put in via the soft top then zipped in! My dad made her get rid of the car which she loved as he said it wasn't safe We used to get 3 kids, mum and dad, 1 english setter and 1 mutt in a MGB GT!! She only got rid of it when they adopted another kid! Edited January 24, 2008 by JACKYSIAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sparkle Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 My parents used to have a mini van thingy, when I was little used to be in the back in whatever they put babies in, in anycase managed to get out (don't ask me how I was trouble from the word go! ) stood up (think I was about 2 ) and hugged my mummy from behind almost strangling her in the process and giving her the biggest shock of her life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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