Seat Belts for Pets

In Santa Fe, New Mexico, local officials are contemplating passing an ordinance that would require pet owners to restrain their dogs, cats and ferrets in special pet seats or with seat belts while traveling in a moving vehicle. Most news outlets ran the story today under their "odd" or "oddly enough" banners. Screwy, whacko or insane would be a more appropriate categorization. America may have become a nation in which personal resonsibility is unfortunately excused because we are all treated as vicitims, but now we're treating pets like children. Since the U.S. already has a new federal law that makes it a crime to kill a pregnant woman's fetus, why not prosecute those who fail to put pets in seat belts as murderers, too?

 Posted by glenn