Are Life Jackets required for dogs?

[djplourd]

I have a life jacket for my dog because I figured it was a good thing to have.  However, someone we met at our puppy training class this weekend told us that she was stopped and given a citation for not having a life jacket for her dog.  I'm not sure where she was boating but it would have been somewhere in the DC, MD, or VA waterways.

I can't find anything searching google or the VA DGIF web site that says anything about the topic.

 

[kaydano]

Was she talking about her husband?

 

[JeffS]

Life jackets are not required for dogs anywhere that I have ever had boating experience. That doesn't mean they're not wherever she was boating. But I think that would be tremendously far-reaching for a regulatory-whatever, to say life jackets are required for dogs.