Patent ID: 7785167

Claim:
A method of giving a child in a removably transportable child's car safety seat, specifically a forward-facing toddler seat, an illusion that said child is riding an animal, said method comprising the following steps: securing by strap means, the forward-facing toddler seat, upon a standard adult seat of a motor vehicle; said forward-facing toddler seat having a sitting surface; providing a toy animal having a forward facing body; providing a vertical slot at a rear of said toy animal, said vertical slot passing vertically from a top surface to a bottom surface of the animal's forward facing body; placing the toy animal facing forward on said sitting surface of said forward-facing toddler seat; threading a buckle assembly vertically up through said vertical slot to locate the toy animal to the said forward-facing toddler seat, and to bias the buckle assembly forward and away from an aft portion of the sitting surface that the child's bottom will be placed upon, of the forward-facing toddler seat; placing the child in the forward-facing toddler seat; buckling the left and right straps of the five-point harness around the child to the buckle, to secure the child and toy animal to said forward-facing toddler seat, with a front of the animal extending from between the child's legs, to give the illusion of the child riding the animal.