Cute dog attempts to bite passing traffic from car window
On any given day — summer or winter — when I am traveling to or from my daily pet adventures, I see so many dogs with their head hanging out of a partially-open window as they ride along with their people in their vehicle.
Almost nothing beats that gleeful expression and sense of everything being right in the world when you see a dog that happy.
I know that you can relate.
Dogs who find displeasure with passing vehicles — especially delivery trucks — is something that I see, too.
This video of a dog combines the two: While hanging out the car window, he snaps at passing vehicles. Check it out.
What funny habit does your pet have?
Lorrie Shaw leads the pets section for AnnArbor.com and is owner of Professional Pet Sitting. Shoot her an email, contact her at 734-904-7279 or follow her adventures on Twitter.
Comments
Jane
Mon, Jul 16, 2012 : 2:09 p.m.
Re: dogs hanging out of vehicle windows — I have long felt (learned the hard way as a young child) that it's best if a dog in a vehicle is restrained. When I was about 9 years old, my father had to suddenly hit the brakes hard. Our dog went flying into the dashboard, and was seriously injured. In an earlier "life," we raised and showed dogs and they were always crated when traveling, as are our two small pet dogs of today. In addition, there is always the danger that a dog could get something in its eye(s) or receive a glancing blow from the mirror of a car that is too close. The cute practice is not worth the potential grief.
jns131
Mon, Jul 16, 2012 : 2:42 p.m.
I totally agree. I loved video but yet do see and agree a potential hazard involved. Petco has a harness car restraint system I love and I believe it is Mountain something. Been using them for years. Just buckle em in with the loop and they are not going anywhere except into the lay down position. For short stops I let them loose but otherwise, long trips? Buckled. Thanks for the video.
RunsWithScissors
Sun, Jul 15, 2012 : 7:25 p.m.
It's not really a habit, but.... My friend gave his curly-hair dog a bath and then they jumped into the car for some quick errands. The dog was hanging her head out the window the entire time and the hair on the one side of her head was blown-dry flat & straight. Hilarious.