>> On another note the dogs were all caged. The rear window in the Skoda has
>> gone, and had the dogs been loose they would have been all over the A1
>> in panic in a heartbeat.
>>
>> Dogs should always travel caged or secured in some way.
>>
A couple of years ago we were on our way back from France in the C8 towing a caravan along the M20. As we approached Junction 8, positioned in lane 2 to consider overtaking a Polish artic in lane 1, a truck entered lane 1 from the slip road. A Passat estate in lane 2 was just passing the cab of the Polish truck as it moved out to give the incoming truck some room. As if it were a well-rehearsed stunt, the Passat ended up pinned sideways across the front bumper of the Polish cab. The artic stopped in lane 2, a helpful van driver stopped in lane 1 and I stopped on the hard shoulder. The driver and passenger we escorted to the hard shoulder and gave them blankets from the caravan. The woman was going on about her dogs which seemed to be rampaging around inside the Passat. If they had been in cages or strapped in, they certainly weren't now. And these dogs looked big.
Would I go and rescue her dogs please? I didn't think that a stranger trying to get two frightened animals out of their car and walk them to their owners, on a live motorway, was within my abilities. I'm not a dog person; if they had got loose, things would have quickly got a lot worse with the incident having taken 2 live lanes out of action. The dogs, although maybe distressed, were safer in the car, with the length of an artic between them and another accident. I said no, at which point the woman became very emotional and, between sobs, fixed me with a glare probably reserved for axe murderers.
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