🚨 Are you endangering your pet? For the truth about pet safety, sign up for the @veterinary_emergency_group newsletter at the link in bio, & keep reading below! ✨ For National Pet Travel Safety Day, we asked the emergency vets at VEG about all the best and worst ways to travel with pets. We learned A LOT—so much more than we could include in this video, so here’s what Dr. Jacobson and Dr. DeZara had to say about a few additional common methods of transportation ➡️ 🎒Biking with your dog in an open air backpack (where their head and arms are sticking out and looking over your shoulder) 🎒 Rating: 1 | They hated this because the dog can easily try to jump out if it’s uncomfortable or sees a squirrel or for some other reason, endangering the dog and the cyclist both. This is preferable to having your dog attached to the bike because the dog can go with you if you jump off the bike. They’ve see a lot of accidents in the ER with these. 🚗 Free roaming in the car 🚘 Rating: 2 | While this is pretty dangerous, they preferred this to any kind of bike transport, but they rated it low because your pet can fly into the windshield if the car stops short or crashes. Pets can also jump or fly out of the window and get seriously hurt. + They can distract the driver! 🌟 Pet sitting in a carrier that’s buckled in 🐶 Rating: 10 | this is their overall preferred method of transportation. This way your pet will not go flying. Soft carriers and hard carriers are both ok, as long as the animal is the right size for a hard carrier. If they’re super small in a big hard carrier, they could slam up against the side on impact and get hurt. 🚲 The most common ways that they’ve seen animals get hurt in transit are jumping out of windows and jumping/falling off of bikes. ⚠️ While bikes are pretty unsafe for animals overall, you can reduce risks by strapping your dog to you (NOT to the bike), and keeping your dog in an enclosed backpack (if size permits)