my dog eat my seatbelt!!!

[The Quattro King]

Shees give it a rest Bryan-

Although I have never left anyone of our dogs in the car (would not dare,
they slobber everywhere, we had at one time 3 mastiffs a st. bernard and two
small dogs.  now have two mastiffs one st. bernard and two small dogs) I
know that they can do a LOT of damage in a short time.  In about one hour, a
150 pound 4 month old mastiff puppy we had chewed about 8 PAIRS of shoes, a
WHOLE redwood patio set (picnic table, love seat, refreshment table, two
benches, one chair, by the way, he chewed them up not just a nipple.  I had
to rebuild most of the set) several rungs on our back porch, the trim off my
Mercedes and for desert one aluminum door knob into our garage.  Yes, that
was in about ONE hour.  I am not kidding.  They will do that.

BTW, Bryan- our mastiffs love going for rides in the Bronco with the top off
(or even on for that fact) and I will leave them in the car.  I just won't
kill them with heat of cold.

Shayne P.



1972 MB 280 SEL
1984 4ksq
1987 4ks
1991 v8q5
1991 200q Sedan
1992 S4

Parting:  1972 Mercedes Benz 280 SE 4.5

> From: Bryan Rodgers <brodgers at ofdc.on.ca>
> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:59:29 -0500
> To: "'Luke Rickert'" <rickert at engr.orst.edu>, audi list <quattro at audifans.com>
> Subject: RE: my dog eat my seatbelt!!!
> 
> I think the more important question here is, how long is "a little
> while"?!??
> 
> Dogs shouldn't be locked into cars ever! If you can't take him into where
> ever it is you are going, he's better off at home... ...if he chewed through
> that much stuff in what you consider "a little while", it was far to long
> for the poor guy.
> 
> Give the dog to someone who will care for him.
> 
> B
> (yeah, I'm pissed!)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luke Rickert [mailto:rickert at engr.orst.edu]
> Sent: Friday, November 24, 2000 3:33 PM
> To: audi list
> Subject: my dog eat my seatbelt!!!
> 
> 
> I recently acquired what I thought was a remarkibly well behaved 8 month
> old dog, unfortunately I left him in my car (87 4kq) for a little while
> and he decided to chew through the front and rear seat belts on the
> driver's side. He also chewed on the door panels but this is not a
> safety issue. It is almost funny, but anyway now I need to replace the
> seat belts and train this beast of a dog. I assume, totally uninformed
> as usual, that it would be no more expensive to buy some sort of 4 point
> harness than to get new stock belts? Does anyone have experience
> installing a harness in a 4kq while retaining at least partial rear seat
> function? I have seen bars that run between to two front seat shoulder
> belt mounts for other cars, does anyone make one for Audis or could I
> just fabricate one?
> 
> thanks and enjoy the leftovers
> 
> Luke
> 
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