04/17/07 Dogs Like Trucks!

Drive through any farming community and it is practically a given you will see a border collie in the back of a pick-up truck, tool box surfing. Farm dogs simply love engaging in the sights smells and activity of viewing life from the bed of a truck. But if a democratic legislator from Colorado had her way, dogs in trucks would be as endangered as pygmy rabbits. It is bound to happen, with more and more city folk fleeing the exurbs they are confronted with a rural way of life they can't understand or tolerate. So the initial knee-jerk reaction of the transplants is to attempt to change things to fit their urban mindset. Problem is some of theses things have been in place for generations, like dogs in the back of trucks and just aren't going away anywhere easily . Her bill that would have made it dog abuse to have a dog in the back of a rig never saw the light of day but it sure riled up enough Coloradoans that many are now sporting the bumper sticker, Truck beds, the last Bastion of Freedom. Dogs like Trucks! Don't mess with that!