OK, how do your dogs travel in your pilot?

[wmasd]

1. I never let them in my pilot.
2. All over the place.
3. In the back.
4. In the back seat.
5. In the passenger seat.
6. In a dog crate ( wire, plastic etc.) in the back.
7. Behind a barrier device in the back.
8. Some other way.

[colorider]

Originally posted by wmasd
1. I never let them in my pilot.
2. All over the place.
3. In the back.
4. In the back seat.
5. In the passenger seat.
6. In a dog crate ( wire, plastic etc.) in the back.
7. Behind a barrier device in the back.
8. Some other way.

Mine were in a metal kennel when we got in our wreck last November. Had they not been, it is very likely one or more of them would have been injured.

[krygny]

They make restraints for dogs that hook onto seat belts or child seat retainers. I've never used one but I'm getting a new Bernese puppy this weekend and I intend to train her to use a restraint. Supposedly they offer enough freedom for the dog to sit or lay down on the seat.

[Sunday Rider]

Originally posted by krygny
They make restraints for dogs that hook onto seat belts or child seat retainers. I've never used one but I'm getting a new Bernese puppy this weekend and I intend to train her to use a restraint. Supposedly they offer enough freedom for the dog to sit or lay down on the seat.

Congrats on the puppy krygny, glad you didn't wait too long.

[krygny]

Originally posted by Sunday Rider


Congrats on the puppy krygny, glad you didn't wait too long.

Thank you. We didn't really expect to get one this soon, but things just worked out - Guess you can't really plan when you lose a dog, OR when you get one.

[Jiaronnis]

Definitely in the back for our 50 lb. chow mix. He is restrained with a leash because he likes to jump up front with the rest of the family.

[mdesmaraisva]

Our dog (Kali / Black Lab) has a full harness she wears when we travel. Most of hour trips exceed 6 hours on the road and 99% of the time is spent on the interstates.

The harness goes in front and behind her front legs and then has a loop on her back that you put the seat-belt through. This gives her the ability to move slowly wit the free movement of the seat-belt. It also gives the safety of the seat-belt restraint in a sudden stop.

[krygny]

... here's how our new BMD puppy (female, as yet unnamed) made the 225 mi. trip yesterday from Oxford, NY through the Catskill Mtns. to LI. We had a soft carrier with us but never used it. She sat quietly on the seat next to my wife the whole trip. I think, at some point, the both of them were sleeping back there. Such a good puppy.

[drm1111]

I put the 3rd row seat down and put an old comforter with her bed on top of it. She loves it!! She's a Collie/Lab mix and weights 85 pounds and has plenty of room. Kinda look s like a Border Collie. When the Pilot goes out of the garage she expects to be in it. If not we can hear her carry on in the house.

[Sportymonk]

And where does everybody put their luggage when they go on trips if the dog(s) are in the back?

Have two gophers cleverly disguised as beagles. Breeder said they were beagles. Vet said they were beagles but no dog could dig that much! Spent the weekend doing emergency laying of 8" x 16" brick around fence after they dug out twice last Thursday. Backyard looks like bombing range. Beagles are 11 months old both used to be girls.

Avatar shows them younger with Guinevere on the left and Lana on the right.

Thought about on of those invisible electric fences inside the wood fence but Lana keeps chewing the collar off of Guinevere.

[wmasd]

It sounds like someone should send sportymonk a basket of rabbits to keep those pups too busy to dig. Like drm1111 we put down the third seat, have a barrier device behind the second seat and the dogs ride in the back, often in their kennels, don't ask why we also have the barrier device. Then the luggage goes on the second seat. Good thing the kids are grown and gone, or we would have to tow a trailer. Which we do sometimes also with the dogs in a special dog box in it, and the pilot full of other gear.

[vellinga]

Originally posted by Sportymonk
And where does everybody put their luggage when they go on trips if the dog(s) are in the back?

Dog goes in the back, behind a 'separator' net between the cargo and passenger area.

Our dog (a 65lb. Small Munsterlander) gets the whole cargo area except for the space taken up by a standard suitcase. The rest of the luggage goes in a roof top box.

[Sportymonk]

Originally posted by vellinga


Dog goes in the back, behind a 'separator' net between the cargo and passenger area.

Our dog (a 65lb. Small Munsterlander) gets the whole cargo area except for the space taken up by a standard suitcase. The rest of the luggage goes in a roof top box.

Aaahhhh, now I see why everybody is concerned with trying to get a Thule or whatever on the roof to fit the roof rack bars.


BTW - Dogs dug out yesterday twice. Now in a pen. Buying 250 8"x16" 20 pound bricks today (and tomorrow and the next day) Can only haul about 35 bricks (700 pounds) in the back of the Impala trunk. Building my case for how desperately I need a Pilot.

[BigDogDad]

Originally posted by krygny
... here's how our new BMD puppy (female, as yet unnamed) made the 225 mi. trip yesterday from Oxford, NY through the Catskill Mtns. to LI. We had a soft carrier with us but never used it. She sat quietly on the seat next to my wife the whole trip. I think, at some point, the both of them were sleeping back there. Such a good puppy.

Beautiful looking pup you got there. Good luck with her!

[Sunday Rider]

Originally posted by krygny
... here's how our new BMD puppy (female, as yet unnamed) made the 225 mi. trip yesterday from Oxford, NY through the Catskill Mtns. to LI. We had a soft carrier with us but never used it. She sat quietly on the seat next to my wife the whole trip. I think, at some point, the both of them were sleeping back there. Such a good puppy.

Congrats krygny, that is one cute pup. Best of luck with her.