US 11,751,538 B2
Animal restraint device
Ronald Alan Meneou, II, Prescott, AZ (US)
Filed by Ronald Alan Meneou, II, Prescott, AZ (US)
Filed on Feb. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/182,114.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/979,982, filed on Feb. 21, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0259212 A1, Aug. 26, 2021
Int. Cl. A01K 13/00 (2006.01); A61D 3/00 (2006.01)
CPC A01K 13/00 (2013.01) [A61D 3/00 (2013.01); A61D 2003/003 (2013.01); A61D 2003/006 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for restraining an animal on a device, said method comprising the steps of:
restraining at least four points of contact of the animal by:
a. placing the animal onto a horizontal planar platform;
b. attaching a first end of a leash around a neck of the animal; and
securing a second section of the leash to a leash mount coupled to a linear horizontal shoulder bar;
c. lowering the shoulder bar from above the animal down onto a top surface of the animal at the base of the neck or across the shoulders and locking the height of the shoulder bar; and
d. wrapping a strap, hanging from a rear pole coupled to the platform, under and transversely across the animal to apply upward pressure to the lower abdomen, cranial of the hind legs, and fastening one end of the strap to a fastener mounted on a second rear pole.