If your toddler crawls through it and drowns in an adjacent bog. You can sue the manufacturer (or installer) of the doggie door for not warning you.
"More than a hundred children have died or been seriously injured in the last decade after squeezing through tiny pet doors and getting into swimming pools or other dangerous places, new research has found. "
"a Florida lawyer suing a pet door manufacturer for the family of two-year old Matthew Ranfone."
Say what? Where were the parents when their two-year old was doing all this?
My guess would be looking up attorneys in the Yellow Pages (r).
Watching American Idol ?
Use an electronic collar if you have pets, children, pets doors and a pool. They door will only open as the animal approaches.
It keeps raccoons, bob cats, stray opossums and the neighbor's cats out of the feed bowl.
If a parent leaves the regular door open a little and the little tyke opens the door and crawls/toddles out, is the door manufacturer and/or carpenter going to be responsible?
TDD
How many people have woken to find that they have been patting a skunk all night. That came in through the doggy door.
I can honestly say that I have never done this.
I did, however, live in a house that apparently had a pet squirrel. Never did figure out how the little fuzzy bastard got in there. It appeared shortly before I moved out and it fought the landlord for a while after I left too.
nate
The responsibility of the parent trumps everything else.
Thats certainly the rational common sense view. However there are many thousands of lawyers trolling for possibilities to "help" us...
Maybe we should sue the idiot parents.
The trouble with halfwit parents is that they have dimwit kids, and they are extremely fertile.
Must be nature's way of compensating for losses. The dumb masses have to be more fertile to replace lost children.
TDD
We haven't seen "mother forgets about kid in hot car" for a while. The season's upon us, though.
Only if it's a cute kid. Remember JonBenét Ramsey? The beautiful little girl the press wouldn't let rest in peace. I'll bet a dozen ugly kids died that day and nobody cares about them.
TDD
yes then we can blame the windows of the car for any deaths. Wonder why the lawyers haven't found a defense for this one yet and someone to sue?
We really need to ban those mechanisms on the doors that prevent them from being pushed open.
Jon
Just heard a report. Local 911 dispatchers say, the media never hears about the majority of incidents. A few days ago a man left his
2-month old and a 2-year old boys in a car, while he drank and gambled. The media was ALL over that! It was about 102F outside.
re: "How many people have woken to find that they have been patting a skunk all night."
OK, I'll play. My guess is *none*.
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