Our Choc Lab loves to play in water. But we always aire on the side of caution and keep him on an 8 metre retractor lead. You see he's partial to ice cream and loves a Mc Flurrie. So never mind the seagull's watchout for Ted he's much quicker to devour your 99.
On a more serious note, it is advisable to take all the usual precautions of dog on lead, poop bags at hand, car well ventilated, etc etc. There are a lot of people who see a dog in a car and rightly so assume he isn't being looked after.
When I have no other choice but to leave my mate behind, I check the car every hour minimum, leave the estate boot window open and errect a shade over it, leave the windows half way down and switch on his 9 inch electric fan to keep him cool. Also on my car I have a safety sticker telling people that I check every hour minimum and also leave my mobile number should they wish to contact me.
Tuesday, we stopped at Mc D's in Kiddy, while taking the other half to the new QE in Brum. We had a meal and his nib's had a Mcflurrie. While we were eating a right chav walked past with his mates and I was quite suprised by his comments. He said, " That dog's F*****g beautiful, they're well lookin after him. Wish every F****r looked after their F*****g dogs like these F*****s do.
I took that as a real complement because if he could define a good dog and one being looked after, anyone should be able to. Another point I was reminded of was "don't judge a book by it's cover"!!
We're a very broad minded couple having got a son who sports a 6" mohawk at times and a uni student daughter, so being savvy with trends is part of us. The lad we met Tuesday was a great guy and will go far if he could loose the F's. I'd employ him as he showed he'd got reasoning and common sense.
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