How's Your Dog Ride?
 

I was just wondering how people let their dogs ride in their trucks?

I put the back seat up and they get the back floor in mine. Sucks cause this means I have to keep everything cleaned out of the seat and that just ain't me. They used to ride the passenger seat but I got tired of somebody complainin about the seat bein dirty. It's a truck dammit, it's supposed to be dirty:madd:.

got mine straped in. if not i would be off the road. he's a wild bugger!
tried all the tricks i can't calm him down.

with the wife working at the vets, i get to hear all the horror stories about dogs jumping out of trucks or being dragged from being tied in the back.
My dogs when riding in the truck are in a crate in the back of the truck which is tied down always
I hope none of our members here are dumb enough to let thier dogs ride in the back of the truck while not secured in a dog box or crate

Yep, I hear you... I see way too many dogs jumping back and forth in the back or even sleeping on the tool box going down the hiway at 75 mph.

I'm looking to make a dog box; but I don't have anything to go on. I see the aluminum ones for sale for $500 but surely I could figure out how to make one out of stock panels or something cheaper.

Mine just sleeps in the front seat 10 years old puppy days are over just don't try to get in the truck with him in it.it's his truck

i use fiberglass crates in the back and rachet tie them down :U:
the ones letting them run loose in the back are looking at a big vet bill when they jump out while at 75 mph or worse the ones that tie their leash to something and when they notice the dog has jumped out and has been dragging for a few miles as was the case at her job recently :argh:

Dog rides with his head stuffed in the seat crack

That sounds cruel... How do you do that? Hold his head in place and swing the arm wrest up in place to hold him still???? :humm:

lol... My dog rides loose in the front seat, unless I have people with me, then she occasionally rides in the back seat if its warm enough to open the slider. If not she rides in the bed, untied. She won't jump out, even if she see's another dog, or a squirrel, or whatever... Unless I let her out she won't go anywhere, she's been disciplined well. I used to have an aluminum crate, but with a husky in a crate for more than an hour they get cramped up and irritated. On my trip to Florida about a year after I got her I left her in the crate for about 2 hours between stops, and she ripped out the hair on her hind end, and took half the hair out of her tail. She had water, and a few toys in there, so boredom shouldn't have been the problem, but since then she rides loose, usually on her dog bed in the back of the truck, or occasionally she'll crawl under the toolbox and sleep there.

My dogs have always been tied in the back. I'm smart enough to make the rope short enough were he won't fall or jump out.

Two Golden retrievers ride in the back, get in when I tell em to and get out when I tell em to. The only prob is that its a dually and the like to stand on the flares and it scratches em up alittle. Let em jump out or fall out at around 40mph and they learn real quick what they can and can't get away with.

That is the way we train deer down here in South Texas... we usually give them 1 chance to learn not to run across the highway in traffic.

lol

My lab Mack rides in the bed tied up. Im still trying to teach him not to jump out. Everytime i take him down to the creek i unhook him while crossing the field and about 50 feet later he jumps does a roll lands on his feet and keeps running. But hey when your a 2 year old 110 lb lab thats pure muscel that drop doesnt hurt at least he doesnt seem to mind. Ill try and get you guys some pics

Mine will ride in back puttering around the property, but not on the hiway.

Diago rides in the box, hes black lab, heeler, Colie X smart dog, he's tied up in the center. He would never jump out , unless i say "out" , but its illegal to let them ride with out some type of restrant. BIG FINE here, And Chiko he rides on the Dash most of the time or in the side pocket in the back, or right on my lap.
But theres nothing more annoying then walking by a dog thats in the back of the truck, looking like hes going to attack you with the owner yelling SHUT UP ..... now those dogs shouldnt ride in the back.. IMO those owners shouldnt be allowed to have dogs.

It dont like rides so it stuffs its head anywhere it can

I don't think I've ever had a dog that didn't like riding in the truck... unless the last time you took him for a ride the vet took him for his "pride"... :howdy:

So does your gf/wife like to take your dog for rides? :ouch:

Not sure about how your women like things but .... Nope

its a Jack Russel it will jump in and want to go but when your moving it trys to hide

with my pickup bed I'd let him ride in the back untied, he could stick his head over the side but knew that if he so much as set a paw on or over the side I'd whoop him. he jumped out one time while parked in a parking lot thinking I wouldn't see him...that was the last time he tried that, ever. if a wreck happened that was bad enough that he'd fly outa the bed, I don't think it'd matter if he was tied in or not.

now with my flatbed, he rides on the floor in the front.

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he must be related to dm's puppy..lol

Just like that !

Interesting thread. We were just talking about that.
Last time I left dumbass in the truck while I was out,
she ate the freaking seatbelt. :bat: Oh well, no biggie. :U:
Now if they're in a wire crate, what do you do for protection
from the weather? Sun. Rain.....

Right up front... here he is not being too patient waiting for his 'Baby Burger'
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I think you better move over.... looks like he wants to drive. :run:

he'll got to sleep just like that for a while, too; and that's a 1st gen 4x4, it's not at all smooth!

I'm surprised no one has said this, "Doggie Style!"

If I'm in the Cherokee, she rides in the back end with the seat folded down, and the two back windows rolled down about half way so she can stick her head out. In the truck, I fold the back seat up and unfold the panels under the seat. I'll either open the slider, the side windows or both.. If I don't, I'm cleaning nose prints off the glass.
All I have to do is ask her "You want to go bye bye?" and she's running around the house ready to go at the drop of a hat. I don't dare say those words around her unless I'm ready to take her somewhere, or she'll pester me til I do.

Good looking brindle Boxer you got there redrammer. My 2yr old fawn Boxer (Matilda) rides shotgun just likeyours. She sits up tall and just watches everything. She's still wild as all get out, but rides calm in the truck.

When i got to work one day, this man is in a huge panic, He had just bought a brand new dodge truck, and He left his pitbull in the front, He said he wasnt gone an hour and the bugger ate the steering wheel. He was so mad I thought he was going to kill the dog right there...... But i said NO Problem we can fix that. I own a fabric store, I got a piece of leather with leather straping and wrapped it up nice:U:................ I wonder if that dog is still around......:humm:
If i leave diago in a leash too long he will bite it in half.
So i dont tie him up at home, by laws pissed at me, cause hes running free, He keeps the bears out of the yard, and the bylaw too...:w2: Hes a working dog....protecting us like he suppose to do..:U:

Sounds to me like you just made him a giant rawhide chew toy. :U:

Here's what I did for the dogs
 

It really tics me off as well when I see dogs hanging over the side and back of trucks unsecured. I came up with this idea, works really well especially if you have 2 dogs. There's no way they can get tangled, no way they can hang over the side or tailgate. I measured it out and bought the plastic-coated cable from Lowes, along with the clamps and such. It's like two mini-dog runs, the leash cable is looped and clamped around the larger "run" cable, so they can move front to rear, but can't reach the tailgate. Just thought I'd pass this on, I worry about my Boys and would never take a chance on endangering them. Maybe someone can benefit from this...I've had a lot of people comment on how neat it is, and it doesn't cost much at all to fabricate. --David