Romney Drive With Dog On Roof

During the 650 mile 1 050 km trip seamus got diarrhea.

Romney drive with dog on roof.

It might be unseemly to bring this up just as mitt romney celebrates his win in new hampshire on tuesday night and seems to be a strong front runner for the gop nomination. Romney did not simply strap seamus to the roof. Using a 1983 family vacation to talk about romney s family values a shocking paragraph caught the eye of animal rights groups and angered pet owners across the country. Romney stopped at a gas station to wash the dog the carrier and the car.

But it s a true story and it comes with a canadian angle. Washington the story hasn t come up yet in any of the republican presidential debates and it hasn t even dogged him on the campaign trail. Mitt romney and the dog on the car roof. Their dog seamus rode in a carrier on the roof of the family s chevrolet caprice station wagon for the 12 hour trip.

With seamus back in the carrier the family continued on their way. But the story of his. It might be unseemly to bring this up just as mitt romney celebrates his win in new hampshire on tuesday night and seems to be a strong front runner for the gop nomination. Romney had built a windshield for the carrier to make the ride more comfortable for the dog.

Since there wasn t enough room in the car for the family dog seamus romney put the irish setter in a crate fastened to the roof of the car. One columnist s obsession gail collins loves telling the story of how mitt romney drove his family to canada with the family dog strapped to the roof of the. But the story of his. Mitt romney s dog incident comes back to haunt him photo when mitt romney strapped his irish setter to the roof of his car in 1983 and drove all the way to canada as the dog defecated in fear he couldn t have guessed his decision would follow him for decades enraging animal lovers and raising questions about his character and management style.