Who doesn't love to travel with their dogs? Some of us do not just bring our dogs to walk in the park, we also love to bring them with us wherever we go. Our dogs are our very best friends.
When we go visiting our friends or on an outing, we bring along our beloved dog with us. Most often, we travel to our destination by car.
Most of the time, our dog will be sitting in the rear seat of the car.
As a dog owner, we know that dogs have some undesirable habits. Firstly, dogs tends to drool and the saliva would be dripping onto your leather seat of your car. When you do not clean it immediately and the saliva dries up, it would cause a terrible stain mark on your beautiful car seat. It is very unsightly. Furthermore, you have to use a special car leather stain removal product to undo the damage. Hence, it is time consuming and costly if you are going to bring your dog out.
Secondly, dogs sometimes leave their paw prints behind on your seat. That will cause a ugly mark on your car seat too. To make things worse, sometimes the dog moves around in the car and its sharp paws would certainly scratch your car seat. That is permanant damage to your car seat. The only solution is to change your car seat cover and this can cost an arm and a leg sometimes.
Thirdly, if you do not clean your dog before letting him into the car, your dog will bring along mud, grass and dirt from outside of the car and onto your car seat. Can you imagine the time you'll have to spend vacuuming and cleaning your car seat every time you bring your dog out? And what happens when it is a rainy day? Your car seat will be a huge mess of mud, grass, dirt and rain that is brought in by your dog. It dirties your expensive upholstery or even your brand new leather seat cover that you just got installed.
Not only that, what if you have kids who sit at the rear of your car? They will be exposed to the dirt and germs that are brought in by the dogs.
Fourthly, if your dog is too short to look out of the window, he would find ways to increase his height to see what is happening outside the car. So, your dog may stand on your leather arm rest and scratch the leather in the process of doing so. As you know, once your leather is scratched, there is nothing much you can do but to change to a new one. That is costly as compared to getting dog car seat cover.
Fifthly, when you make a turn or stop at the traffic light, sometimes your dog will slide off the car seat. This may cause unnecessary injury to your dog, and you would spend more money to bring your dog to see the vet. And if your dog suffers a serious injury, it is definitely too high a price to pay for a simple trip with your beloved dog. With a dog seat cover in place, it is safer for your dog as it is unlikely for your dog to slide off the seat.
Dogs are intelligent animals. If your dog had the bad experience of sliding around the back seats when you made a sharp turn, it will learn to find its own grip the next time you make a sudden turn or step on the brakes abruptly. It will learn to grip your car seat with its paws. Thus, it would scratch your car seat and cause permanent marks on the car seats.
If you don't want scratches or holes in your seat covers, you need to prevent your dog from getting to them with its teeth and nails. But don't even think of using discarded bedsheets or blankets to cover the seats. These don't work very well -- your dog can easily move them around and more often than not, the sheets will end up in one corner and your seats will be exposed. Use a proper dog seat cover and you'll never face this problem!
In conclusion, buying a dog seat cover for your dog is good investment for your car, your dog and yourself. You can protect both of your beloved car seat and your dog.
Copyright 2006 Taylor Fox
Taylor Fox is the owner of the Seat Covers for Dogs site. Find all the tips and advice for seat covers for dogs at
http://www.seatcoversfordogs.com
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