This week Click & Clack, Tom and Ray Magliozzi – the infa­mous Tap­pet Broth­ers, answered a reader’s ques­tion about whether it was safe to let her guide dog ride in the floor board of the pas­sen­ger seat.

For the fun and witty ver­sion of the answer, you’ll need to read their col­umn, (avail­able here) but the para­phrase was: No. The air bag could deploy and injure the dog and her­self, and she should stick to using a seat belt har­ness for her dog and keep the dog in the back seat.

They said they would love to hear from any­one with real dog-and-air-bag-safety data. If you have any, know of any, or would just like to share your opin­ion, drop them a line at: CarTalk.com. (Def­i­nitely a dis­cus­sion we’d like to follow.)

And who knew? The Car Talk site is a wealth of both car and dog info. For much, much more on dog and ani­mal safety in and around cars, visit their links below.

Car Talk has a spe­cial “Wildlife and Your Car” sec­tion. Lots of inter­est­ing tid­bits there. (One tip is miss­ing from the how to get the dead mouse smell out of your car – sell the car! That’s what we had to do once. Phew! Makes the occa­sional Frenchie “fra­grance” down­right pleas­ant in comparison.)

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