This Romney guy currently laughs it off, claiming that the dog loved it & that his family loves his dog. This is sad and scary and sickening.

Clearly this guy has a problem.

Animal cruelty by a grown family man in his thirties is the biggest RED FLAG that danger lurks very near and definitely disqualifies this individual as capable of providing the healthy leadership America needs. BE WISE VOTERS.

I have 3 dogs including a pound puppy who has gone to work with me every day for 14 years. To say I am a dog lover would probably understate my attachment. I am also a hunter (as are my dogs). I am sure many of the message posters would condemn my use of dogs in bird hunting as “cruelty to animals”. I obvously disagree with that position.

In the 60’s we let our dogs hang their heads out the car window at 60 mph. We them ride unrestrained in the back of pickup trucks. Few of us would do those things now. We were unaware that this could case eye damage or injury. We didn’t harbor a satanic desire to harm dogs.

My gut feeling is you folks wouldn’t have much of a problem if Ted Kennedy had abandoned and drowned his dog (along with poor Mary Joe) when he drove off that bridge in a drunken stupor many years ago. Come to think of it - not many years removed from the “Romney animal cruelty” story you are obsessing over.

The key words here are probably “Republican” and “Morman”, not animal cruelty.

my family also took many long car rides when i was growing up… very few with the dog because he really didn’t like to travel. my parents were not idiots, so on those occasions when our dog did come with, he was actually in the car with us and not on the roof. i can assure you that if any of my siblings or our pet ever developed a case of raging diarrhea, neither of my parents would have considered reacting in the way romney did. guess they wouldn’t have been considered good crisis managers. they weren’t perfect, but at least they weren’t cruel.

i’m amazed that people talk about the past as though nobody alive at the time had a shred of common sense or an ounce of compassion. i’m also amazed that people seem to think that cars were in some primitive state… they were actually a lot more comfortable than today’s cars, albeit a lot less safe. we simply used the technology available to us. sure it’s different now, but we had no right to be deliberately cruel then, and we don’t have that right now.

Did you strap the dog to the roof and have it loose it’s bowels in terror? I had many trips similar to yours with pretty much the same trek. Family pets were IN the car though. heh, crossing the desert before sunrise in the summer, due to lack of AC, those were the days!