Please don't lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

[ShipsWoofy]

Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

Except in emergency. The straps are entirely wrong for lifting an animal, weight is put onto the throat and diaphragm/stomach.

If you require a harness to lift an animal through the air, even a short distance may I please plead that you use a proper harness that spreads the weight along the animals chest. This type is often used/sold as a car harness and is extremely strong, far stronger than the handle on top of the jackets.

Click image for link, this type of harness has a 2" padded strap under the chest and will not cause the same distress to the animal. This is not an advert, this is just a message from a dog person who is astonished by how many people are moving dogs about with such a poorly designed life jacket type.



Imagine you or your family being strapped around your throat and belly and then lifted up from behind... No, this is why yacht harnesses strap around your chest area.

Sorry for this intrusion.

 

[Danny_Labrador]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

Hey....thanks for that!

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[BrendanS]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

Perfectly good tail which on many dogs will stick up out of the water to aid in the process /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[bilbobaggins]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

Er, this sort of thing, Brendan?

Newfie


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[Beadle]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

Yes

Thats what you need

Let him lift you out of the water.

Lovely dogs _ wanted one but SWMBO said they were just too big. and too hairy.

Suppose she had a point.

So we got a Lab - brown job - daft as a brush.

 

[misterg]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

So this is no good for dogs, then?

Shame /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif

(Not wishing to detract from your sensible message /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif)

Andy

 

[bilbobaggins]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

Er, do they do a version that would fit, say, Fireball or Sniffy100.....?


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[Sixpence]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

We can but hope /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Pinnacle]

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You have just made me cry............























laughing!!!

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[hlb]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

I had three of these at different times. Can you suggest a lifting method.

13 stone at nine months!

 

[ShipsWoofy]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

No idea, I have a rule, I will not have a dog that eats more than me!

Nice dogs though.

 

[Twister_Ken]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

>I had three of these at different times. Can you suggest a lifting method.<

Fork lift truck.

 

[Sixpence]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

I think I cocked up on that rule , mine can eat twice as much as me if I let him

 

[harvey]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

Brilliant....

 

[tangomoon]

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I haven't laughed so much in months. Do they still print the book 101 uses for a dead cat? With the amount of dog crap everywhere I reckon they would all make good fenders or drogues /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Thistle]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

Suggest you train them to use the waistband of your trousers or lifejacket as appropriate. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[copterdoctor]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

Got a Newfie, very old now, she never would go near a boat or a jetty. She would be none too easy to lift from a dinghy, in fact she knows perfectly well all she has to do is lay on her back feet in the air and she gets her own way.

As newfies are so idol that actually need less room (or food) than you might imagine but on a very cold night we would often wake a find her laid across our, numb, legs.

 

[Kilter]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

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Er, do they do a version that would fit, say, Fireball or Sniffy100.....?


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Oh I SO hope so! Here Charlie...come and get it! /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[Beadle]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

Lovely

Our Lab has similar talents, she could sleep for England, but she likes going on the boat.

Used to have a Rotter who hated water, she wouldn't even walk through a puddle if she could avoid it. We did take her on the boat a couple of times but she was so miserable we didn't have the heart do it any more.

 

[Sneds]

Re: Please don\'t lift your dogs on the life-jacket straps

Our dog loves the boat.....