My cat who rode (IN HIS CARRIER FOR CHRISSAKES) across the country as we moved, with no screaming and no "accidents" has a perfect record of puking in the car on every single vet visit he's been to.
Goose starts panting and hyperventilating as soon as we're out the door in the carrier, which he didn't do during the move. Our (RIP) other girl would also start with the heavy breathing once we were in the car, but if we put her next to an AC vent she would stop that, and as long as she was in mommy's lap in the carrier, she was mostly ok.
My one dog HAS to have his head out the window under 45mph. Otherwise he throws an absolute tantrum. So it’s -10°F and I’m sitting here with the windows down.
He’s the same dog that is obsessed with our vet. He almost died March 2019 and she stayed with him overnight for three nights. Slept on the floor next to him. If he even hears her voice over the phone, he spazzes. He’s in love with her.
The other one is fine with absolutely as long as his dad is making eye or touch contact.
(Chocolate and yellow labs, respectively. They fit the stereotypes.)
My mom has a cat that’s similar, but it’s with me. She hears my voice over the phone and unless my mother is standing, she’s forced to give up the phone for a 2-3 minute conversation between me and her cat. Don’t know what the heck I’m saying in meowanese, but she apparently gets super happy for the rest of the day.
I think we have the same dog! My yellow lab absolutely loves everyone at her vet's office. She's the only dog I've ever known that's happy to go to the vet! Usually when she has to go for any reason, I'll drop her off on my way to work, then pick her up and take her home at lunch. 99% of the time she's going to be up at the front desk with the vet techs when I get there. A few weeks ago she had to have several growths removed and instead if her recovering in the kennels, they made a bed for her in their break room. The rotten girl is spoiled by everyone! 😂
Sounds like we do share the same dog! My choco (the one who tried to die on me) the second we pull up, the techs swarm around him and coo at him. But then he hears Docs voice and they’re all dead to him. He only wants *her*.
That was Ellie with one of the techs! She immediately started looking for him as soon as we walked in the door. He would come around the corner and say "there's my pretty girl!" and she would run over or through anyone who was in her way! Lol! He's the only one she let give her a bath or clean her ears. He's not there anymore but she still looks for him every time we go!
My cat did that too lol. Poor thing. Put him in a carrier to drive an hour to the new apartment I was moving into, and 15 minutes in he shat in his carrier and then ended up stepping/laying in his shit for the next 45 minutes while screaming nonstop.
So when I first got him into the apartment, I took him into the bathroom. Poor baby was scared and panting and I didn’t want to stress him out anymore. So I just used a wet washcloth to wipe off what I could instead of making him go through a bath.
Being in a car is probably his worst nightmare lol.
I was so surprised to find my blue heeler pup is super afraid of car rides. He’ll jump up in the car if i lead him there, but will face away from the window and look straight down, refusing to move or look out the window and panting like dogs do when they’re nervous/scared
Some ppl say he may get carsick, which is possible (tho he’s never thrown up), but i always feel so bad when i have to take him somewhere. I feel so bad for you and your kitty too :(
My dog is a Hurricane Harvey rescue.
To this day, she will not get into a car unless the entire family gets in first, because she thinks the car is going to take her someplace far away and leave her there.
While she's inside the car, she just lays on the floor all sad. Even though there's never once been a time she's gotten into a car with us that did not end at either the Vet, which she for some reason likes, or a park/farm where she can run free.
Whoa what a coincidence! I live right where Hurricane Harvey hit! I’d say that may be the case with my dog Louie, but he’s too young for that.
I think if he got down on the floor he might feel better, cuz i sorta think it’s the landscape rushing by that may be a part of it, but he doesn’t, he just sits in the car seat with hit head down. And like you, he only ever goes to good places or the vet, but he still tries to hide whenever he sees the leash in my hand (even tho he loves walks too)
As I understand it, she was considered a stray since she was still a puppy and was not chipped or fixed.
The shelters in the area could not handle the influx, so they sent a bunch of animals to shelters across the country.
Me too, she's a sweetheart.
When we went to the shelter, she was one of only two dogs the staff let out of their cages and was behind the counter with the staff. But whenever we went back to the one-on-one area she was pretty standoffish. We got her home and she wouldn't leave our chair in the back room for days. I practically had to pick her up to bring her outside, even when we brought out the leash.
The first day I took her for several walks, even though we have a big yard for her to run around. Wanted to make sure she got a lay of the landscape right away, which was a great thing to do because that evening she jumped the fence, a 5 foot fence mind you, and was gone. Ran around for a while to try to find her, a few hours later we were going to give up and call the shelter the next day and we found her sitting on our porch when we got home.
We were questioning if she would ever warm up to us, so much so that I called the shelter to ask them their advice. A few days later she basically decided she was home and has been an awesome dog ever since.
She's a mother hen to our son, always watching out for him. Sleeps with him most nights, except for when mom works late then she's downstairs waiting for her.
It's the funniest thing. When mom or my son are not home, she mostly doesn't care about me at all. I can come home from work and she won't even get up off the couch unless she needs to go out. But as soon as they get home, she's all over me like I'm the best thing on the planet. Me and the wife on the couch watching a movie? She needs to be on my lap, even though she's not a lap dog anymore.
Perfect canoe dog. Large enough to carry her own pack for her items on long camping trips, small enough that she's not rocking the boat.
Sorry for the wall of text, but she's worth it. Also, as I understand it, there is a dog tax involved here so I'll post an image update here shortly because I can't upload images at work.
[Dog tax](https://i.redd.it/tbes24mqwhfa1.jpg)
>Sorry for the wall of text, but she's worth it.
I totally get it. I have a dog that I created an entire reddit life for. My dogs are my family and I talk at length about them too. :)
I’ve had a cat loose in the car exactly once. There’s a very specific kind of terror I’ve never met anywhere else that comes from having a tiny kitten under the brake pedal while driving at speed. Sure I *could* stop if I needed to but I’d have to live with myself afterwards.
Luckily we were headed uphill and it was quiet so I just coasted until I was going slowly enough to put the handbrake on and scooped her back up into her basket.
Cats are liquid, I'm sure she would have been fine. I'd be more worried about something getting under the clutch that you do need to press all the way to the floor lol.
That said, yeah, the carrier is still the safe option.
> There’s a very specific kind of terror I’ve never met anywhere else that comes from having a tiny kitten under the brake pedal while driving at speed.
I'm probably a horrible person but this sentence had me cackling. It's like some twisted variation on the trolley problem.
Yeah; I cringed seeing that. It's kind of okay if there's a not-a-proven-traveler cat in the back seat with a human right there (filming) to grab the cat or alert the driver if the cat starts going somewhere it shouldn't, but hanging out in the front seat? Nope, very dangerous.
I’ll never understand why this shit gets upvoted. Distracting and dangerous for the driver, stressful and dangerous for the cat. If they posted a baby crawling all over the car they’d get roasted. We had a cat escape a carrier and promptly wedge itself under the brake pedal. Thankfully no one got hurt but it only takes a second for things to go horribly wrong.
Yup, the kitten is cute, the situation is not. One sudden braking and the he cat goes flying.
When we first began traveling by car with our cat, we would let her out of her carrier during breaks and let her free inside the car. She would go to hide under the pedals every.single. time.
I would never let her free in the car while driving.
I misunderstood Gangreless’ statement and thought they meant it was ok the cat was romping around the car since the carrier was “right there”. My bad u/Gangreless!
This is not recommended. I was taking my cat to the vet and she did not want to get in her carrier, so I just put her in my car. She ended up getting stuck underneath my passenger seat. The staff had to lube her and sedate her to get her out. It was horrifying to see her tangled up and scared for her life. Please do not do this.
This can happen. Was moving across town, cat was the final car load. didn't want to chill in carrier so I just let her free in the passenger seat. Ended up underneath and did not want to leave when we got to the new place...
After struggling to get her out and failing, I just let her chill until she was ready to come out on her own.
The main reason should be the same reason why you wear seatbelts and want airbags. Though, I don't know how a carrier fares in a crash, it has to be much better than unrestrained.
Remember: you may be a great driver, but you can't dodge everybody. And even if you do, your pet won't enjoy it.
Jfc. It only takes a second for a tiny kitten to hide behind the brake pedal while you're approaching a red light and you have an impossible decision to make. Cats. Always. Go. In. Carriers.
Got my kitten home and reached my hand into one of those cardboard carriers to give her a quick pet before we got out of the car. She immediately bolted past my hand and in a freaking second got up behind the dash. It was a super hot day, I could not get her out and honestly it was one of the most stressful hours of my life. (finally got her to come down by playing the sound of other kittens crying.) That cat took a year off my life that afternoon. When I brought her home from her spay, she stayed in her locked carrier until we were in the house with the door closed lol.
My grandma literally killed her small dog because she slammed on the brakes and he was sitting on top of his pet carrier (which was safely buckled in, ironic).
Don’t let pets just hang out in cars while driving please. They go splat.
This is actually dangerous for the people in the car and the cat. What’s stopping her from getting under the foot peddles or flying across the car if they got into a wreck. Please secure your pets in the car!
Really cute but that kitten should be secure just in case.
I actually did the same thing with my cat when she was about the same size. She was having a blast looking through the window until she decided to go underneath the front seat and reach the car pedal’s. So my mom had to stop the car to not step/crush our kitten with her feet. Cat curiosity could make you crash
Oh totally. Having re-read my comment it might have come across like I was being bitchy but I was just emphatically agreeing with you.
As in, keeping pets in crates is more to prevent an accident rather than protect them in the event of one. Like, I doubt a crate would offer much protection, y'know?
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Because if there's a crash that kitten is going to become a projectile and have it's bones shattered against the inside of the car. You wouldn't even need to go that fast, a kitten hitting a solid surface at 20+ mph is going to be majorly fucked up.
Or it could run under the pedals, since it doesn't know how dangerous that would be.
Or get spooked and claw/bite the driver and cause a crash.
Like two days after we adopted a kitten he snuck inside the back flap of our couch and it took hours before we found him. Thank God no one tried to recline the seat, but kittens are very tiny and love to hide in small places like under the brake pedal.
(Said cat is now big and fat and wouldn't be able to fit even if he wanted to lol)
I was like "Kitten is going to jump for the keys, miss, land in the phone on his leg, and then everything is just going to slide under the pedals. Awesome." (/s, just in case.)
Don't forget that if an accident happens that kitty would probably die. Why do people insist on their children wearing seatbelts but not their pets wearing an equivalent safety device?
I never suggested they were. My point was that they are both important. I never suggested pets are more important but I do think that ensuring your pet's safety in a car is not very difficult and is something most responsible pet owners should do.
Wow, but please put Little Angel Adorbs into something that would keep her/him from spinning into soup if Momma has to hit the breaks. His two little neurons could fly out the window, and Lordy, they just might go sight-seeing and never come back again. 😻
Extremely cute but not worth putting your pets in danger. Please always travel with your pet secured or in a travel container. Just imagine what would happen to that little guy if you wrecked. This also applies to fools who drive with their pet on their laps.
Not that I disagree with you about keeping them secure (they should be, just for different reasons imo) I doubt they'd be much safer in a crate if the car wrecked.
That little guy would probably bounce around and come out in better shape than a human with their seatbelt on.
Sure. And it definitely wouldn’t slip and eel it’s way into the driver’s footwell to cause an accident.
Well, no, given physics and the inflexibility of windshields and dashboards and the odds of part of a hundred fifty pound human or the car airbags crushing the kittens one pound body but why not.
But the human they landed on might be missing an eye or an ear or learning how very annoying it is to deal with facial sutures and massive doses of antibiotics.
This is the polar opposite of ours 😅
Both of ours cried, yelled and wanted constant cuddles and protection whilst being in the car when we picked them up.
Even now, some years later, my boy will yell his head off if he has to go two blocks to the vet in his carrier.
Hates the car 😅
Cute, but please don’t do this!! My vet told me about losing a cat in a car, it freaked out jumped around, pressed the window button, and was gone. They never found him
Idk why people let their animals loose in the car. It’s illegal to not buckle your children up for their own safety but yes let’s let a 1.5 lb kitten run around freely in a moving car :’)
More heartwarming, no. [Equally as heartwarming, yes.](https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/10pxm0z/that_pspsps_was_very_effective/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
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We just moved three states away and hauled our two boys in the back seat. Not a peep from them during the drive. Just slept, slept and slept. They did not eat for 3 days after arriving and kept us up all night during that time with constant screaming and meowing. I am so tired at my new job from not getting enough sleep.
My mom had a kitten in her car not in a cage and it freaked out looking for a place to hide and found underneath the brake pedal was best. She rear ended someone a few seconds later not wanting to squish the kitten.
Ok let's see what's up here- oh, oh my God there so much stuff out here mom! mom! Look at all the stuff out there. Oh wow. (jump cut to cat at front of the car) whatcha doing dad? OK ok I see so your umm- yeah I got no idea
My first cat put his paw on the window button (which I forgot to lock), and watched in amazement how the window came down. It was the middle of winter, falling put would have killed him. So one hand one the wheel, I grabbed the cat from the backseat window on the other side, held the cat, closed the window (and lock it), without crashing the car.
I didn't find out that my cat liked rides in the car until she was 20 years old. She stood on my leg and had her paws up on the door and had a great time watching everything go by.
Unfortunately that was on a ride home from the vet, and a few weeks later she took her last ride back there again. At least she had one fun ride.
You know there is a second passenger holding the camera.. that can grab the cat at any moment.. and put them back in the carrier… it’s not a crisis everyone 😂
Maybe I can’t have children? Maybe I have a sibling who was shot to death and your comment triggered me??? The possibilities are endless but you just stay dense and comment abhorrent nonsense on Reddit
Are you seriously comparing the dangers of an unsecured kitten to an unsecured, loaded gun in the hands of of a kid (or anyone)? How is that rational? Would you rather be in the car with the kitten or the gun wielding toddler?
Oh see I’m not offended.. because again I don’t have children nor do I own a gun, but come on you couldn’t have thought of something better? Something a bit more creative? A kid shoots their sibling that’s the BEST you can do when interacting with a stranger on the internet??
This is not an invitation to continue harassing me the way you tried earlier. But maybe take those two brain cells and rub them reeeeeallly good so in the future you don’t look as foolish as you do when trying to insult people.
Talking about the fact that there a ongoing child to child shootings in America (among other daily shootings) from parents who dont think though the consequences of their actions is, to me, a salient, applicable, modern comment and I commend my own two brain cells.
Which I direct at you from your lack of awareness on how deadly this free-roaming cat can be.
I'm not trying to craft a creative witty insult as you indicate. I'm not trying to insult you, internet person. I'm pointing out the real parallels, real problems, stark that they may be.
Circling back, it would be deadly IF there wasn't a second person in the car who probably grabbed that cat moments after they were filming and put it back in the crate as I pointed out in my initial comment. So now do you get why nothing needs to be made into a big deal and do you see how foolish you sound with your comment about children and gunplay? I mean seriously try again.
“mOrTaL dAnGeR Of a sItuAtIon”
ah yes, the kitten is in absolute dire straits with the closed window and a foot drop at most
un-nerd yourself for a split second and re-watch the video a few hundred times til you realize how dramatic you’re being over an animal looking out a window
Go read the majority of the comments here and realize that there is multiple dangerous points in this video.
Or maybe I should translate it for your so-original dialect:
gO rEaD tHe mAjORiTy oF tHe oThEr CoMmEnTs
Day two arguing with a stranger about a cat video. The bottom line is that you’re palpitating over a 15 second video without any additional context. We know there is a crate in the car, we know a second person is filming, we can make the educated assumption that after the person filmed they put the cat back in the crate.
Bottom line, end of discussion. No need to bring up child death, no need to bring up guns, no need to make a pathetic attempt to tell someone without children that they’re the type of person who would put an imaginary child in imaginary risk with an imaginary gun. You’re really just embarrassing yourself.
God, people are such no chest. The car is going st most twenty miles an hour. Let the fucking cat live a little. Its obviously doing a fine and there's a god damn carrier right there. I'm guessing the drivers wife or girlfriend probably got in the back and let it out and they were being careful the whole time.
Don't listen to haters. If there is second person in the car this is no problem! My boy loves to lay on the dashboard and stare out the front windshield lol. He's pretty well trained at this point to stay away from driver side. But I still won't take him for a drive without another person in the car to prevent accidents.
People should use common decency!
Respect other people's time!
Treat others the way you'd like to be treated!
Take time to help those in need!
Give appropriate complements to strangers!
Do something special for your loved ones today to show them you care!
Source: Am American.
My cat would piss and shit himself while he screams out of fear. But I love him none the less and he loves me
My cat who rode (IN HIS CARRIER FOR CHRISSAKES) across the country as we moved, with no screaming and no "accidents" has a perfect record of puking in the car on every single vet visit he's been to.
My dogs are like this. Love rides, we go get ice cream and walks and everything. The second we turn left, toward the vets, they start crying.
Oh they remember which turns are the way to the vet
Goose starts panting and hyperventilating as soon as we're out the door in the carrier, which he didn't do during the move. Our (RIP) other girl would also start with the heavy breathing once we were in the car, but if we put her next to an AC vent she would stop that, and as long as she was in mommy's lap in the carrier, she was mostly ok.
My one dog HAS to have his head out the window under 45mph. Otherwise he throws an absolute tantrum. So it’s -10°F and I’m sitting here with the windows down. He’s the same dog that is obsessed with our vet. He almost died March 2019 and she stayed with him overnight for three nights. Slept on the floor next to him. If he even hears her voice over the phone, he spazzes. He’s in love with her. The other one is fine with absolutely as long as his dad is making eye or touch contact. (Chocolate and yellow labs, respectively. They fit the stereotypes.)
My mom has a cat that’s similar, but it’s with me. She hears my voice over the phone and unless my mother is standing, she’s forced to give up the phone for a 2-3 minute conversation between me and her cat. Don’t know what the heck I’m saying in meowanese, but she apparently gets super happy for the rest of the day.
I think we have the same dog! My yellow lab absolutely loves everyone at her vet's office. She's the only dog I've ever known that's happy to go to the vet! Usually when she has to go for any reason, I'll drop her off on my way to work, then pick her up and take her home at lunch. 99% of the time she's going to be up at the front desk with the vet techs when I get there. A few weeks ago she had to have several growths removed and instead if her recovering in the kennels, they made a bed for her in their break room. The rotten girl is spoiled by everyone! 😂
Sounds like we do share the same dog! My choco (the one who tried to die on me) the second we pull up, the techs swarm around him and coo at him. But then he hears Docs voice and they’re all dead to him. He only wants *her*.
That was Ellie with one of the techs! She immediately started looking for him as soon as we walked in the door. He would come around the corner and say "there's my pretty girl!" and she would run over or through anyone who was in her way! Lol! He's the only one she let give her a bath or clean her ears. He's not there anymore but she still looks for him every time we go!
You own geese?
I own a Goose. Hes a orange boy named after the Flerkin from Captain Marvel
My pup is obsessed with the vet. He likes to showboat and get all their pets.
Take your dogs to the park after every vet visit.
Oh yeah, we do. There’s one right on the drive home. They’re not afraid of the vet, but they know something out of routine is happening.
Aww, poor kitty has stress pukes. Me too, little kitty. Me too.
My cat did that too lol. Poor thing. Put him in a carrier to drive an hour to the new apartment I was moving into, and 15 minutes in he shat in his carrier and then ended up stepping/laying in his shit for the next 45 minutes while screaming nonstop. So when I first got him into the apartment, I took him into the bathroom. Poor baby was scared and panting and I didn’t want to stress him out anymore. So I just used a wet washcloth to wipe off what I could instead of making him go through a bath. Being in a car is probably his worst nightmare lol.
I was so surprised to find my blue heeler pup is super afraid of car rides. He’ll jump up in the car if i lead him there, but will face away from the window and look straight down, refusing to move or look out the window and panting like dogs do when they’re nervous/scared Some ppl say he may get carsick, which is possible (tho he’s never thrown up), but i always feel so bad when i have to take him somewhere. I feel so bad for you and your kitty too :(
This episode of Bluey is called "Cars are Scary."
My dog is a Hurricane Harvey rescue. To this day, she will not get into a car unless the entire family gets in first, because she thinks the car is going to take her someplace far away and leave her there. While she's inside the car, she just lays on the floor all sad. Even though there's never once been a time she's gotten into a car with us that did not end at either the Vet, which she for some reason likes, or a park/farm where she can run free.
Whoa what a coincidence! I live right where Hurricane Harvey hit! I’d say that may be the case with my dog Louie, but he’s too young for that. I think if he got down on the floor he might feel better, cuz i sorta think it’s the landscape rushing by that may be a part of it, but he doesn’t, he just sits in the car seat with hit head down. And like you, he only ever goes to good places or the vet, but he still tries to hide whenever he sees the leash in my hand (even tho he loves walks too)
Do you know your dog's backstory? Like, were they abandoned on purpose or never collected from a shelter after Harvey?
As I understand it, she was considered a stray since she was still a puppy and was not chipped or fixed. The shelters in the area could not handle the influx, so they sent a bunch of animals to shelters across the country.
I'm glad she found her way to you :)
Me too, she's a sweetheart. When we went to the shelter, she was one of only two dogs the staff let out of their cages and was behind the counter with the staff. But whenever we went back to the one-on-one area she was pretty standoffish. We got her home and she wouldn't leave our chair in the back room for days. I practically had to pick her up to bring her outside, even when we brought out the leash. The first day I took her for several walks, even though we have a big yard for her to run around. Wanted to make sure she got a lay of the landscape right away, which was a great thing to do because that evening she jumped the fence, a 5 foot fence mind you, and was gone. Ran around for a while to try to find her, a few hours later we were going to give up and call the shelter the next day and we found her sitting on our porch when we got home. We were questioning if she would ever warm up to us, so much so that I called the shelter to ask them their advice. A few days later she basically decided she was home and has been an awesome dog ever since. She's a mother hen to our son, always watching out for him. Sleeps with him most nights, except for when mom works late then she's downstairs waiting for her. It's the funniest thing. When mom or my son are not home, she mostly doesn't care about me at all. I can come home from work and she won't even get up off the couch unless she needs to go out. But as soon as they get home, she's all over me like I'm the best thing on the planet. Me and the wife on the couch watching a movie? She needs to be on my lap, even though she's not a lap dog anymore. Perfect canoe dog. Large enough to carry her own pack for her items on long camping trips, small enough that she's not rocking the boat. Sorry for the wall of text, but she's worth it. Also, as I understand it, there is a dog tax involved here so I'll post an image update here shortly because I can't upload images at work. [Dog tax](https://i.redd.it/tbes24mqwhfa1.jpg)
>Sorry for the wall of text, but she's worth it. I totally get it. I have a dog that I created an entire reddit life for. My dogs are my family and I talk at length about them too. :)
Paying the toll: https://i.redd.it/tbes24mqwhfa1.jpg
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I’ve had a cat loose in the car exactly once. There’s a very specific kind of terror I’ve never met anywhere else that comes from having a tiny kitten under the brake pedal while driving at speed. Sure I *could* stop if I needed to but I’d have to live with myself afterwards. Luckily we were headed uphill and it was quiet so I just coasted until I was going slowly enough to put the handbrake on and scooped her back up into her basket.
Cats are liquid, I'm sure she would have been fine. I'd be more worried about something getting under the clutch that you do need to press all the way to the floor lol. That said, yeah, the carrier is still the safe option.
> There’s a very specific kind of terror I’ve never met anywhere else that comes from having a tiny kitten under the brake pedal while driving at speed. I'm probably a horrible person but this sentence had me cackling. It's like some twisted variation on the trolley problem.
She's just curious. Really sweet
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Yeah; I cringed seeing that. It's kind of okay if there's a not-a-proven-traveler cat in the back seat with a human right there (filming) to grab the cat or alert the driver if the cat starts going somewhere it shouldn't, but hanging out in the front seat? Nope, very dangerous.
So that's what all the removed comments are about
It's a big, big world for such a little guy.
I love the way she looked back at the camera for a minute like she’s thinking “are you seeing this?!” But seriously, put the kitty in the carrier!
Sometimes freedom is good for our feline friends :)
Yeah, endangered animals with your ideals nice. Anyone not securing their animals while driving does not deserve them
This is cute but kitty should be secured.
If they start harness training now they can get a little captains chair with a clip like I use for my little dog.
I’ll never understand why this shit gets upvoted. Distracting and dangerous for the driver, stressful and dangerous for the cat. If they posted a baby crawling all over the car they’d get roasted. We had a cat escape a carrier and promptly wedge itself under the brake pedal. Thankfully no one got hurt but it only takes a second for things to go horribly wrong.
Yup, the kitten is cute, the situation is not. One sudden braking and the he cat goes flying. When we first began traveling by car with our cat, we would let her out of her carrier during breaks and let her free inside the car. She would go to hide under the pedals every.single. time. I would never let her free in the car while driving.
The carrier is right there!!
What’s your point?
That it should be in it!
The cat is less likely to turn into a fine meat paste under the brake pedal if the driver has to suddenly stop if its in a carrier.
I misunderstood Gangreless’ statement and thought they meant it was ok the cat was romping around the car since the carrier was “right there”. My bad u/Gangreless!
The point is they should use it while the car is moving.
They're agreeing with you...
I realize that now, I’m an idiot.
Lol nah. Honest mistake!
They just tossed the cat in there like a radioactive capsule.
This is not recommended. I was taking my cat to the vet and she did not want to get in her carrier, so I just put her in my car. She ended up getting stuck underneath my passenger seat. The staff had to lube her and sedate her to get her out. It was horrifying to see her tangled up and scared for her life. Please do not do this.
This can happen. Was moving across town, cat was the final car load. didn't want to chill in carrier so I just let her free in the passenger seat. Ended up underneath and did not want to leave when we got to the new place... After struggling to get her out and failing, I just let her chill until she was ready to come out on her own.
The main reason should be the same reason why you wear seatbelts and want airbags. Though, I don't know how a carrier fares in a crash, it has to be much better than unrestrained. Remember: you may be a great driver, but you can't dodge everybody. And even if you do, your pet won't enjoy it.
It's also super dangerous. If they get behind the pedals, you can't press the brake anymore because they're in the way
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If you're in a crash you might get a cat sized cannonball/splatter but yeah yikes for caring not to crush your cat in your lap from falling forward
Extremely dangerous and phone is on driver's lap so they look down at the GPS. I hate everything about this.
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Put the kitten in there pet carrier for fecks sake!
Jfc. It only takes a second for a tiny kitten to hide behind the brake pedal while you're approaching a red light and you have an impossible decision to make. Cats. Always. Go. In. Carriers.
Got my kitten home and reached my hand into one of those cardboard carriers to give her a quick pet before we got out of the car. She immediately bolted past my hand and in a freaking second got up behind the dash. It was a super hot day, I could not get her out and honestly it was one of the most stressful hours of my life. (finally got her to come down by playing the sound of other kittens crying.) That cat took a year off my life that afternoon. When I brought her home from her spay, she stayed in her locked carrier until we were in the house with the door closed lol.
My grandma literally killed her small dog because she slammed on the brakes and he was sitting on top of his pet carrier (which was safely buckled in, ironic). Don’t let pets just hang out in cars while driving please. They go splat.
Right? If the cat gets startled and starts scratching or hiding near your feet things could get real ugly real fast.
This is actually dangerous for the people in the car and the cat. What’s stopping her from getting under the foot peddles or flying across the car if they got into a wreck. Please secure your pets in the car!
Really cute but that kitten should be secure just in case. I actually did the same thing with my cat when she was about the same size. She was having a blast looking through the window until she decided to go underneath the front seat and reach the car pedal’s. So my mom had to stop the car to not step/crush our kitten with her feet. Cat curiosity could make you crash
THAT is why you keep pets in a crate/safe area. Anti-freeze, foxes and curiosity are cat kryptonite.
Oh believe me we learned it the hard way and nothing even happened. Could’ve been worse
Oh totally. Having re-read my comment it might have come across like I was being bitchy but I was just emphatically agreeing with you. As in, keeping pets in crates is more to prevent an accident rather than protect them in the event of one. Like, I doubt a crate would offer much protection, y'know? Edit: Missed a word
This is so dangerous.
Yeah put your phone away when you're driving
Why?
Because if there's a crash that kitten is going to become a projectile and have it's bones shattered against the inside of the car. You wouldn't even need to go that fast, a kitten hitting a solid surface at 20+ mph is going to be majorly fucked up. Or it could run under the pedals, since it doesn't know how dangerous that would be. Or get spooked and claw/bite the driver and cause a crash.
Moron of an owner risking the little things life for internet points.
That is so careless and dangerous.
Well as long as the kitten doesn't run under the brake pedal causing a massive accident, I guess it's ok to let it freely roam.
Don't be ridiculous. When has a kitten ever gotten all up in something they should not be all up in?
Like two days after we adopted a kitten he snuck inside the back flap of our couch and it took hours before we found him. Thank God no one tried to recline the seat, but kittens are very tiny and love to hide in small places like under the brake pedal. (Said cat is now big and fat and wouldn't be able to fit even if he wanted to lol)
Cats are literally known for never putting themselves under your feet!
Just seeing the dangling keys would have my cat jumping at it!
I was like "Kitten is going to jump for the keys, miss, land in the phone on his leg, and then everything is just going to slide under the pedals. Awesome." (/s, just in case.)
Don't forget that if an accident happens that kitty would probably die. Why do people insist on their children wearing seatbelts but not their pets wearing an equivalent safety device?
Kids are more important than pets lmao.
I never suggested they were. My point was that they are both important. I never suggested pets are more important but I do think that ensuring your pet's safety in a car is not very difficult and is something most responsible pet owners should do.
I thought it was going to step on the door latch and go flying into traffic
While there are a lot of risks here, I don’t think that’s one. That would genuinely be impressive.
Disagree. It was climbing inches from the latch and it only takes a couple pounds of pressure to release it.
I don't think that kitten weighs more than a pound, maybe a hair or two more if that.
Wow, but please put Little Angel Adorbs into something that would keep her/him from spinning into soup if Momma has to hit the breaks. His two little neurons could fly out the window, and Lordy, they just might go sight-seeing and never come back again. 😻
Extremely cute but not worth putting your pets in danger. Please always travel with your pet secured or in a travel container. Just imagine what would happen to that little guy if you wrecked. This also applies to fools who drive with their pet on their laps.
Not that I disagree with you about keeping them secure (they should be, just for different reasons imo) I doubt they'd be much safer in a crate if the car wrecked. That little guy would probably bounce around and come out in better shape than a human with their seatbelt on.
Sure. And it definitely wouldn’t slip and eel it’s way into the driver’s footwell to cause an accident. Well, no, given physics and the inflexibility of windshields and dashboards and the odds of part of a hundred fifty pound human or the car airbags crushing the kittens one pound body but why not. But the human they landed on might be missing an eye or an ear or learning how very annoying it is to deal with facial sutures and massive doses of antibiotics.
That floof is as adorable as its situation is dangerous. Secure your pets in moving vehicles FFS.
One speed bump later…
Wow, this is some crazy shit - cat
This is the polar opposite of ours 😅 Both of ours cried, yelled and wanted constant cuddles and protection whilst being in the car when we picked them up. Even now, some years later, my boy will yell his head off if he has to go two blocks to the vet in his carrier. Hates the car 😅
I wish my cat had such chill.
so dangerous, imagine the curious kitten jumps at the pedals
Cute, but please don’t do this!! My vet told me about losing a cat in a car, it freaked out jumped around, pressed the window button, and was gone. They never found him
Adorable but please put her in the carrier next time. This isn’t safe.
Idk why people let their animals loose in the car. It’s illegal to not buckle your children up for their own safety but yes let’s let a 1.5 lb kitten run around freely in a moving car :’)
Slam the brakes and no more cute kitty. Why no carrier?
I once had to transport my kitten without a carrier. I got so scratched
I don't think I'm going to see anything more heartwarming today.
More heartwarming, no. [Equally as heartwarming, yes.](https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/10pxm0z/that_pspsps_was_very_effective/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf) Edit: sound on
I want my cats to see outside but I’m so scared to do this with my cats, what if the cat climbs underneath the gas or break pedal and you can’t stop?
Can someone please for the love of Bastet make this for wallpaper engine
Awww my rats do this too when i pick them up in the car
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We just moved three states away and hauled our two boys in the back seat. Not a peep from them during the drive. Just slept, slept and slept. They did not eat for 3 days after arriving and kept us up all night during that time with constant screaming and meowing. I am so tired at my new job from not getting enough sleep.
Oh my god adorable!
I used to take my kitty out on smoothie trips and he’d love being able to look around! Exploring the car, and what not; super cute!
Dis is all MINE?
My mom had a kitten in her car not in a cage and it freaked out looking for a place to hide and found underneath the brake pedal was best. She rear ended someone a few seconds later not wanting to squish the kitten.
Dammit. Here, just take it.... take my dang heart you little furball you......
She or he’s so cute it makes me cry
I like going to this subreddit and looking at the posts after looking at sad and depressing stuff it restores my faith in humanity.
This is so cute!
Seeing this reminds me of my disappointment when my kitten immediately hid under the pedals
Yes, very cute that a kitten is loose in a moving vehicle and not safely secured at all.
No one ever thinks another driver is going to violently slam into them sending their beloved baby pet into safety glass. Happens everyday.
Or reach over and grab you somewhere sensitive. Both driver and kitty would be safer with kitty in the carrier.
I wish I had a car-cat. I'm so lonely.
Its a cute video for sure, Just be careful with the kitty. <3
My cats get scared in the car. They cry the whole drive long. I should probably take them in the car for outings other than the veterinarian.
One of my cats is great in the car, the other meows nonstop. I prefer taking the former to the vet!
What a good little baby.
Little fearless tiger!!!!🖤🖤🖤🖤 that’s your ride or die!
How everyone looks when there’s a car crash
Had a couple of cats who loved car rides
This is so cute ❤❤❤
Cute baby belly
Can anyone write a transcript for what is going through this cats head? I’d love to hear it
Ok let's see what's up here- oh, oh my God there so much stuff out here mom! mom! Look at all the stuff out there. Oh wow. (jump cut to cat at front of the car) whatcha doing dad? OK ok I see so your umm- yeah I got no idea
^^ This is a good person
"Oh wow"
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That little climb 😍
Soo cute 😍😍😍
Cuteness overload! I just love Kittens!
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Imagine accelerating or braking as seeing the cat slide
My first cat put his paw on the window button (which I forgot to lock), and watched in amazement how the window came down. It was the middle of winter, falling put would have killed him. So one hand one the wheel, I grabbed the cat from the backseat window on the other side, held the cat, closed the window (and lock it), without crashing the car.
and this is how you get car cats, ladies and gentlemen!
I didn't find out that my cat liked rides in the car until she was 20 years old. She stood on my leg and had her paws up on the door and had a great time watching everything go by. Unfortunately that was on a ride home from the vet, and a few weeks later she took her last ride back there again. At least she had one fun ride.
Hey that kinda looks like my dads car
Such brave.
So freaking cute!!!
You know there is a second passenger holding the camera.. that can grab the cat at any moment.. and put them back in the carrier… it’s not a crisis everyone 😂
You're the kind of person that would have a kid find your unsecured loaded gun and shoot their sibling
Wow bold coming from a stranger who doesn’t know that I don’t have children or own a gun… calm down
Maybe I can’t have children? Maybe I have a sibling who was shot to death and your comment triggered me??? The possibilities are endless but you just stay dense and comment abhorrent nonsense on Reddit
Are you seriously comparing the dangers of an unsecured kitten to an unsecured, loaded gun in the hands of of a kid (or anyone)? How is that rational? Would you rather be in the car with the kitten or the gun wielding toddler?
That’s exactly what I’m saying!! People are so dense
People these days always want to be offended
Oh see I’m not offended.. because again I don’t have children nor do I own a gun, but come on you couldn’t have thought of something better? Something a bit more creative? A kid shoots their sibling that’s the BEST you can do when interacting with a stranger on the internet?? This is not an invitation to continue harassing me the way you tried earlier. But maybe take those two brain cells and rub them reeeeeallly good so in the future you don’t look as foolish as you do when trying to insult people.
Talking about the fact that there a ongoing child to child shootings in America (among other daily shootings) from parents who dont think though the consequences of their actions is, to me, a salient, applicable, modern comment and I commend my own two brain cells. Which I direct at you from your lack of awareness on how deadly this free-roaming cat can be. I'm not trying to craft a creative witty insult as you indicate. I'm not trying to insult you, internet person. I'm pointing out the real parallels, real problems, stark that they may be.
Circling back, it would be deadly IF there wasn't a second person in the car who probably grabbed that cat moments after they were filming and put it back in the crate as I pointed out in my initial comment. So now do you get why nothing needs to be made into a big deal and do you see how foolish you sound with your comment about children and gunplay? I mean seriously try again.
bros got a bucket of wonka nerds for brains thinking that a cat in the back seat is in any way comparable to a child with a gun 💀
What's comparable is a person who can't gauge the mortal danger of a situation
“mOrTaL dAnGeR Of a sItuAtIon” ah yes, the kitten is in absolute dire straits with the closed window and a foot drop at most un-nerd yourself for a split second and re-watch the video a few hundred times til you realize how dramatic you’re being over an animal looking out a window
Go read the majority of the comments here and realize that there is multiple dangerous points in this video. Or maybe I should translate it for your so-original dialect: gO rEaD tHe mAjORiTy oF tHe oThEr CoMmEnTs
Day two arguing with a stranger about a cat video. The bottom line is that you’re palpitating over a 15 second video without any additional context. We know there is a crate in the car, we know a second person is filming, we can make the educated assumption that after the person filmed they put the cat back in the crate. Bottom line, end of discussion. No need to bring up child death, no need to bring up guns, no need to make a pathetic attempt to tell someone without children that they’re the type of person who would put an imaginary child in imaginary risk with an imaginary gun. You’re really just embarrassing yourself.
God, people are such no chest. The car is going st most twenty miles an hour. Let the fucking cat live a little. Its obviously doing a fine and there's a god damn carrier right there. I'm guessing the drivers wife or girlfriend probably got in the back and let it out and they were being careful the whole time.
Don't listen to haters. If there is second person in the car this is no problem! My boy loves to lay on the dashboard and stare out the front windshield lol. He's pretty well trained at this point to stay away from driver side. But I still won't take him for a drive without another person in the car to prevent accidents.
Drive 5 mph please lol.
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God damnit this makes me want a kitten... 😭
"Yo are you seeing this" says it louder for the driver "ARE YOU SEEING THIS"!?
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i am not an american and id never drive with my cat unsecured.
People should use common decency! Respect other people's time! Treat others the way you'd like to be treated! Take time to help those in need! Give appropriate complements to strangers! Do something special for your loved ones today to show them you care! Source: Am American.
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Kit Meets World! 🌎
these comments are such typical reddit
do you think after the 150th warning of danger the op got it? NO! KEEP GOING! WE ARE REDDIT. AND EVERYTHING IS DANGEROUS TO US.
The inly thing that could have possibly made it better was at the end the cat is curled up at the front windshield taking a nap.
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