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Lock your car windows!! If you have dogs READ

Please forward to everyone you know - this may save a life!

I wanted to share something with you all that is very important for
anyone who takes their dogs in the car with them. We have automatic
windows in all our cars and I roll them down enough that the dogs can
get their head out. I ALWAYS lock the main power lock on the console.
If your dog steps on their window button, should they stand on the
arm rest on the door, they will roll it up, or down and can fall out,
or crush their neck. While they are doing this you CANNOT work the
main power control and roll it back down if they are standing on it.

Every time hubby gets in a car I am driving and starts to roll down
his window, he can't 'cause I have them locked. He gets aggravated at
me and says "I dont know why you lock them!!"

Well last night we had both dogs in the Ford Explorer and hubby was
driving. I told him roll the windows down for the dogs. I Forgot to
tell him to lock them!! Well we start out the driveway, Blaze pokes
her head out the window and all the sudden I hear her gasping. I look
back and screamed at hubby to quite rolling the window up - her head
was in it and he said I'm NOT. She was standing on it and I had to
turn around and lift her foot off the controller as hubby couldn't
override it by his. She was gasping for several minutes.

So people BE CAREFUL. If he had been driving alone it may have killed
her. This could be a child as well. I wish there was some way of
autos making a main power switch that would override the singles even
if they were being pushed.

Sorry for being so long winded but the look on my husbands face was
awful. I told him now you see why the windows are always locked on my
cars. I take the dogs with me every day unless it is too hot. Take
care.

Posted on SHARE Yahoo group Aug. 22, 2006