Dog guard recommendations?

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I’ve changed my car from a Landrover Discovery to a VW Polo estate, and obviously the dogs are finding it very different! I’ve got the back seats down flat to maximise the space available for them, but it is far more ‘open’ to the front of the car than the Disco was and I definitely need a dog guard to stop them coming forward if I have to brake suddenly.

Unfortunately crates aren’t an option due to the size of the dogs and the size of the car (it’s not what I would have chosen necessarily but it was too cheap to refuse!) so has anyone got any recommendations for a ‘floor to ceiling’ dog guard which will fit behind the front seats?

I’ve had a quick look online and a lot seem to be dog guards that fit above the rear seats to keep the dogs in the boot... no way will the 4 of them ever fit in the boot, I’m considering buying a pony trailer for Ace as it is 😄

ETA - are the dog nets any good??
 
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I have a Travall but don't think they make them for behind front seats. I know you were in a bind but I'd not want one of those nets between a 30kg greyhound and the windscreen-they mostly look pretty flimsy. Some of the ones that are adjustable and standalone might do-ime they are difficult to get the tension high enough to not become loose in time. On eBay they do van ones of these which have bars which might do?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universa...849612?hash=item3d53051f0c:g:XeAAAOSwnw9aLked
 
I thought that about the nets too MOC - I’d much rather have something significantly more substantial!

I like that on the link - I’ll check the dimensions - I’m wondering if I will end up getting some puppy run or similar and making my own to be honest! Or selling my ultra cheap Golf and getting a Passat or something bigger 🙄
 
you might be able to cannibalise a dog crate.

I know people scoff at them a bit but I love, love my Dacia Logan-its huge, its really manoeuvrable, its really economical, its not awful in the snow and would easily fit two greyhounds in the boot and 2 in the back seats lol (I got 7 bales of shavings in it without really trying and its big enough to take my two in the boot and all my horse/dog stuff on the back seats). It was also under £8k with seven thousand miles on the clock, no road tax and has all the fancy stuff that I don't know how to use lol.
 
Ha I am so Landrover-ised I had to take the instruction book for the Golf home on the first night to read it, the car has all sorts of electrical gizmos that I had no idea about! I mean, it has no hand brake - that is a novelty for me 😂

I’ve ordered one of the dog guards from the link as a start.... having said not crates, I’m now pondering crates..... Ace is 8.5 hands high and 36kg though so he will need a large crate to himself 😊
 
There are other companies that custom build such as barjo and mmg but they aren't cheap. We got our last one done by a local firm that does van lining and has drifted into dog vans so possibly look for something like that near you, or maybe try a metal fabrication firm?
 
Barjo are great-but quoted me £600 for a double doored tailgate for my car. Actually sorted what I wanted (i.e. a panel to keep the dogs from sticking their heads out of the boot when the vent lock is on) by adapting a mesh dog guard. £16.
 
You can buy a dog guard that sits between the front seats. They arent expensive. One of those with the full size one in the link MOC gave you should work fine. The one that sits between will give a bit more strength and stability to the weak spot and help keep the bigger one in place
 
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