Salt Lake County Animal Providers encourages pet seat belts after crashes kill canine

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SALT LAKE CITY — Everyone knows that seat belts save lives however there may be one passenger who is commonly neglected: your pet. Salt Lake County Animal Providers is encouraging pet house owners to make use of seat belts for his or her canine after responding to a number of crashes lately.

“I’ve responded to 2 accidents that two canine handed away from within the final month and a half,” Officer Gerri Cantor with Salt Lake County Animal Providers stated.

Cantor believes canine seat belts could make all of the distinction in an accident. They assist hold your pet within the car.

“It retains your pet from going by means of home windows, it retains your pet away from first responders as a way to obtain medical consideration,” she stated.

Cantor stated though it might probably seem to be extra work for pet house owners, it’s price taking the additional step to guard them.

“The additional 10 to fifteen seconds to maintain everybody protected is price it,” she stated. “We buckle our kids and we will buckle our pets in too.”

Teresa Wilhelmsen and her black lab Emory do all the pieces collectively together with automobile rides. “She is an outstanding canine, she actually is,” she stated. Their bond is plain. “She’s my loopy monkey, my whole loopy monkey.”

Wilhelmsen credit the pet seat belt she makes use of on Emory for maintaining her protected throughout an accident a few months in the past alongside 2100 South and State Avenue.

“I bear in mind seeing the automobile hit us and searching within the rearview mirror and seeing (Emory). She was on the again seat, nonetheless the place she was alleged to be due to the seat belt,” Wilhelmsen stated. Neither was harm within the crash.

She hopes others study from their expertise and can proceed placing Emory’s seat belt on throughout automobile rides.

“I’ll by no means not seat belt her now,” Wilhelmsen stated.

Seat belts for canine ​can price as little as $10-$15 and could be discovered at pet provide shops or on-line.

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Ashley Moser

Ashley Moser joined KSL in January 2016. She co-anchors KSL 5 Reside at 5 with Mike Headrick and studies for the KSL 5 Information at 10.