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While driving into Midland today on IH-20, I saw something new to me. Coming up the on-ramp was a large sleeper MDT, pulling a gooseneck horse trailer. Pretty common 'round these parts.
Anyway, this guy had his blue healer(sp?) on the flatbed of his truck running around and barking. Now I have seen alot of ranchers with dogs in the BED of a truck, but not on a flatbed, on the interstate, while towing.
I couldn't grab the camera quick enough to get a closeup, but I did get this shot from the service road.
A bit more closeup, the dog is standing against the wall, facing the drivers side of the rig.
Holy cow!! poor dog stands NO chance in a crash.
EDIT: the second picture should have been bigger, sorry.
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And BTW, I am a dog lover and owner. Im not tryin to start a war here, just sharing what I saw.
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we were talking about this just the other day. people find this to be acceptable practice out west but they have a fit over some one leaving their dogs in the cab of the truck with the windows down. I left my dog in the truck today, took the remote door control off the key chain and locked the doors and rolled up the windows and the truck running with the air conditioning going full blast. worked out good for both of us.
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There is only one thing to say:
Not acceptable.
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Uh, think you might want to take this up with those ranchers that engage in the practice--if you know anything about those ranch dogs, particularly heelers, you know they go where the boss goes by any means possible and they don't know when the boss is going to be on the interstate at 80MPH or on some dusty ranch road to nowhere. This isn't an affectation, they are working dogs and when the truck goes, they go and flat beds are easier to get on than pickups.
Anyone ever seen a heeler thrown off the bed of a truck while in motion?
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Really don't see the problem here. This is the way it's done, seen alot of it and never seen a crash. You give the dog the option of cab, trailer or where he's at and I guarantee you he'd jump up there before you could say ####. My only surprise is that there's only one dog - - - must be a small herd!
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I've seen a dog come out of the back of a pick up (with a tailgate on it) on a Texas highway after the driver made a quick defensive move to avoid a collision..... the truck went one way the long legged mixed breed (from what I could tell) dog went the other and then tumbled over the side. With traffic moving along at 70 mph + the dog didn't have a chance. Poor thing! What I witnessed made me sick to my stomach and I wasn't one of the cars that hit the dog.
Yes... it's unacceptable, especially on a flatbed. 
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I would NEVER do that, and I DON'T find it acceptable. Maybe a tad bit safer while travelin on the farm land but not on a highway. I see it here in WV, but the dogs are ridin on the top of the pickup bed tool box, and yes, unfortunately, a couple of them have slid off the boxes and gotten killed. Sorry, but my opinion is that it's NOT a safe place for any live animal to ride
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chuckster11 wrote:Uh, think you might want to take this up with those ranchers that engage in the practice--if you know anything about those ranch dogs, particularly heelers, you know they go where the boss goes by any means possible and they don't know when the boss is going to be on the interstate at 80MPH or on some dusty ranch road to nowhere. This isn't an affectation, they are working dogs and when the truck goes, they go and flat beds are easier to get on than pickups.
Anyone ever seen a heeler thrown off the bed of a truck while in motion?
Im not taking anything up with the ranchers. They do what they do and thats just fine.
They see the dog as a tool, and as such should ride in the "tool area". If this one gets killed, they go get another tool.
While being dog owners, they generally fall short of dog lovers.
I have no "problem" here. Different folks do things differently.
And I have seen a police dash cam video of a dog on the back of a flatbed tow truck crashing on a snowy interstate, he rode out the wreck, then jumped down and ran off. Seemed fine
(much searching has yet to locate that video, but Im sure I can find it again)
EDIT: Video found see here
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