Originally Posted by kerikino

i do not understand this comment. most likely because i am either too young, or too old. heheh. which is it?!

Originally Posted by kerikino

i am sorry that my dog's exposure to carcinogens "sickens" you. we all have our vices, and i thank you for indicating that you are disgusted me and mine.

i suppose what i was getting at with co2 emissions, is what most people call "the big picture." no offense to you or your chosen profession, but saving domesticated animals is not exactly a righteous way of life. i would imagine that you treat animals, save them or whatever, and then hand them back to their owners, right? if so, then you --either consciously or unconsciously--acquiesce every day, that it is okay to abduct animals and remove them from their natural habitats. or perhaps you acquiesce that the animals life is not its own, but that of it's owner... as the animal has been commodified and traded. you acquiesce that animals are something to be traded, something material, something that makes you money!!! afterall, your entire profession, is entirely unnatural and against the grain, is it not? the life of an animal could be dependent on your personal availability, versus the animals ability to fend for itself and save or lose it's own life. that's not fair... is it? animals could die because you don't get paid overtime for more than 40hrs per week, so it's just not worth it to work more. you are killing dogs because you want to relax on the weekends and go to the movies! (yes, that was all satirical... you are not a killer)

my next dog is going to be named "charles darwin" and i will keep him inside a large plastic bubble where he can be safe from the toxins emitted from my cancer sticks.... where he can be freee!!!!!!

seriously, people need to get over the cigarette thing. the only reason "we" (i mean, collectively, north american society) think cigarettes are so awful is because the auto industry has paid lobbyists to tell us that smoking is destroying the earth. how about that?! "put that in your pipe and smoke it!!" i was just kidding, i'm sure you don't own a delicious tobacco pipe... relax.

so anyway, the bottom line is, if there is no earth, there are no cute little doggies to save. we won't be able to save a dog from worms and go to bed at night feeling as if we live a righteous existence. that would truly be horrible, wouldn't it?!!?! that said... if there is no earth, there is no you, no me (and my disgusting, horrendous, despicable cigarettes), no dogs.

so instead of castrating me for smoking a cigarette near something that has a pulse, we could instead look at something that's actually significant.

if you are going to bash me for smoking, then you should probably go ahead and take your mini and melt the chasis and redeposit the minerals back into the earth and tunnel into the earths core where you can replenish whatever oil you have left, etc etc etc. tobacco smoke is trivial, minute, completely and entirely insignificant, if you consider the scope of the earth and all of it's living things.

it might sound absurd, but really, it is no less absurd than insulting someone because they smoke a cigarette every other day, with a dog in the car, whilst driving 55mph with both passenger and driver windows down.

Originally Posted by Nimcosi

I use one of these for our 100lb dog when she is riding in the Mini. Usable in multiple vehicles and it allows the dog to have some limited movement. The face that you get a nice harness and leash is a bonus.