Pet owners are encouraged to get safety harnesses for their furry friends for car trips.
Without them, pets can become distractions to drivers and projectiles in accidents.
But Today.com reported that many safety harnesses are failing crash tests.
Despite claim of being "safety tested," no pet restraints are tested by a regulatory agency, including government ones.
Nonprofit watchdog group Center for Pet Safety took things into their own hands, setting up their own crash tests with 30 pet harnesses.
Stuffed toys shot out of carriers and harnesses at only 30 miles per hour.
Only four out of the 29 harnesses or carriers tested passed.
Center for Pet Safety CEO Lindsey Wolko said, “If you get into an accident and one of these products fails, it puts you, your family members and other drivers on the road at risk.”
Woliko said, “Pet products are not defined as consumer products by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC), so they bypass any kind of any oversight or regulation."
In response, the CPSC said, “Based on our mandate from Congress, CPSC does not have jurisdictions over these products.”
The four products that passed Center for Pet Safety’s tests are: Sleepypod Clickit Utility, Gunner Kennel G1 Intermediate with Strength Rated Anchor Straps, Sleepypod Mobile Pet Bed with PPRS Handilock and PetEgo Jet Set Forma Frame Carrier with ISOFIX-Latch Connection.
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