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Can I ask out of interest -

1) What kind of dog you have / how many?

2) What kind of car do you have?

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)?

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car?

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)?
 
1) What kind of dog you have / how many? Two German Shepherds

2) What kind of car do you have? Low slung French jalopy

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)? The boot

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car? Nope, always the boot, we used to have a dog guard many moons ago.

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)? In the process!
 
1) What kind of dog you have / how many? JRTS X2

2) What kind of car do you have? MICRA/PEUGEOT 306

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)? FRONT SEAT OR BACK SEAT

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car? IN CAR HARNESS

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)? NO - THEY ARE MINISCULE :D
 
1) What kind of dog you have / how many?

One siberian husky thing

2) What kind of car do you have?

An 18 year old Nissan Micra/Skoda Octavia

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)?

Back seat/boot

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car?

Nope/dog guard

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)?

I intend to, when I can afford to! I use the Skoda for longer journeys as it has a huge boot and would easily take our future dog too but I'll never get two in the Micra safely. I'm saving up for a Honda CR-V and intend to have a crate in the back of it. :) It's not just a case of accomodating the dog(s) but the various gear as well, I'll want to take the mountain bike or future scooter to good training spots plus all the lines, harnesses etc.
 
1) What kind of dog you have / how many? Two Corgi's

2) What kind of car do you have? Focus

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)? Boot now....my friends don't appreciate Corgi hair the way I do

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car? Nope...when Jack used to go on the back seat he had a harness though.

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)? nope
 
4 dogs

Toyota Rav4

Some in boot some in back seat with harness or back seats down and dog guard

I try to have them either in harness or in boot or behind dog guard for safety reasons (theirs and mine!)

Yes, I used to manage 2 small ones in a golf, but the GSD put an end to that plan!
 
1 x 5 month old jack russell x
2. Citroen C1 (tiny car!!)
3. Back seat
4. Harness and dog seat belt
5. No!! I love my little car, hence why I have a little dog!! have had to purchase washable seat covers though!
 
1. One extremely Fiery Lucifer of a Border Terrier! ;):D

2. Mitsubishi Outlander

3. In the rear, with the back seats down.

4. Travels in a dedicated travelling crate, secured to the vehicle.

5. Not really. In the past have had Fiat Bravo, Fiat Multipla, Smart 4 Two, Mazda 2 ...........In the smaller cars, the dogs were secured with a travelling harness. As neither particularly enjoyed the experience, changed to the box/crate. :)
 
Can I ask out of interest -

1) What kind of dog you have / how many? 1 Black labrador

2) What kind of car do you have?Toyota Avensis

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)? She sits in the foot part of the front passenger seat.

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car?
no
5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)? no
 
1) What kind of dog you have / how many? A 4 month old Jack Russell x

2) What kind of car do you have? A Toyota Surf (Japanese import, otherwise known as a 4-Runner, it's a 5 door estate version of a Hilux pick up)

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)? Front or back seat

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car? In car harness, she clips in, on her car blanket, and goes to sleep for the whole journey

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)? No, she was fine in the Corsa, I just wanted a bigger car for everything else lol :D
 
1) What kind of dog you have / how many?
German Pointer, Border Terrier

2) What kind of car do you have?
Pergeot Estate, Audi A3

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)?
Boot

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car?
Have dog gaurd in estate but not in Audi, they don't tend to jump over though (which I was quite suprised about!)

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)?
We got the estate so we could fit the dogs in but in hindsight I don't think we needed something so big..
 
What kind of dog you have / how many? 9 dogs, akita, deerhound, pointer, 2 x whippets, rotti, 2 lurchers and a little x breed

2) What kind of car do you have? vauxwagon caddy van and a freelander

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)? in the freelander (its new so tend not to pile them in there) but if I do the boot, no restraints, no guard.
In the van obs in the back,sometimes I put crates in othertimes they are all in the back no restraint.

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car? NO

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)?
I bought the van fot the dogs and my business, even if I did not have a business I would need to keep the van as well as the 4x4 for my dogs.
 
Can I ask out of interest -

1) What kind of dog you have / how many? Two small greyhounds and one greyhound x whippet

2) What kind of car do you have? Peugeot 306 (shortly to be scrapped!)

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)? Back seat is permanently folded down, and they have their duvet in that area

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car? A grille to attempt to seperate them from me, and also to stop them going through the windscreen if I brake suddenly!

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)? Nope - I am about to change my car because my existing one wont pass its MOT, so I am looking for a hatchback because it is more practical for the dogs, but have never (and would never!) change my car just for them :D
 
1. 3 month old GSD pup

2. Smart Roadster

3. In the footwell the couple of times he's had to travel in it. Soon be having to steal the parents car (smart for 4) every time he goes anywhere, then he'll probably be in the boot/back seat.

4. Not yet, will be sorting either a harness or grille though.

5. No way, I love my car :p Although I have considered trying to magically bend finances to be able to afford an extra car, just for Loki :p
 
1) What kind of dog you have / how many? One fairly butch/chunky terrier X

2) What kind of car do you have? Ford Fiesta/Vauxhall Vectra

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)? Back seat, the middle one

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car? Carry box

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)? We bought an estate car when we travelling regularly with the dog between NI and Dublin.
 
1) What kind of dog you have / how many? 3 german shepherds

2) What kind of car do you have? Skoda fabia estate

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)? Boot

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car?Dog guard, wire inner tailgate

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)? Have always had vehicles capable of carrying dogs, at one stage when doing agility shows it was a Fiat Ducato van fitted out with several cages.:p
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1) What kind of dog you have / how many?
German Shepherd x 1, Golden Retriever x 1
2) What kind of car do you have?
Peugeot 106
3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)?
Goldie in front, GSD in back
4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car?
Usually the seatbelts, but am in process of buying dog car harnesses
5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)?
Not myself but my Dad always has a 'dog car' - Vectra Estate with big cage in boot at present! In future, depending on how often my dogs are travelling with me I may do.
 
This thread has reminded me, I was driving my ma's Focus last week and she had done something with the back seats and one had flopped down while I was driving. All of a sudden there was this rather wet, hairy gentleman sitting almost level with me, giving me a quizzical look 'ah, so this is what goes on up here?'
And me: 'Er, what are YOU doing up here?!'
 
1) What kind of dog you have / how many? JRxShitzu, Rottie, Bearded ColliexBorder Terrier

2) What kind of car do you have? 1999 ford fiesta

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)? JRxShihzu in the front, collie and rottie in the back seat

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car? Harness and plug in seat dog leads and also waterproof seat covers :)

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)? No, only due to lack of funds
 
1 - 2 Border Terriers
2 - Fiat 500
3 - Old man in the back and puppy in the passenger footwell (untill she can be trusted to not chew my boot to shreds!)
4 - Nope, had a carrier for the puppy.... but she chewed the fastenings off it.
5 - If I had I would have failed miserably!
 
1. whippet/bearded collie/bedlington and collie/lab

2. 5 door freelander

3. in back with back seats down

4. have a double dog travel crate so keep them safe if there was an
accident

5. would like to be able to use travel crate so would check measurements
to make sure it fitted but thats all.
 
1) What kind of dog you have / how many? One German Shorthaired Pointer

2) What kind of car do you have? Shogun and BMW estate

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)? Boot

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car? Boot gaurd for Shogun as he can get over easily, although only does if parked up and that is the car he would be left in. Not in BMW as very hard for him to get over and hardly ever left in by himself (which is when he does it!)

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)? No need!

I'm amazed no one has admitted to travelling their dog in body of car un restrained!! I know LOADS of people who don't!!
 
1) What kind of dog you have / how many?
Have three dogs; a very old minature pinscher, a middle aged border terrier, and a young hooligan of a minature poodle

2) What kind of car do you have?
Honda Civic estate type thing (mine) / VW Golf (shared between hubby and me) / Audi S4 (hubby's)

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)?
In the boot in the honda, in the boot in the Golf, on the backseat of the Audi

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car?
A boot guard thingy that keeps them in the boot of the Honda. I have tried all sorts - letting them travel loose (border terrier hated this, he's a worried traveller). I've tried seat belts - pain in the backside when there's more than one. I've tried crating, but if I travel them frequently which I do -then it just takes up too much room. Happiest for me and the dogs is travelling in the boot - even for the BT who hates the car.

In the Golf we tend to crate if necessary - but the Audi there's no room. So these cars we only take them for short trips, and it tends to be a free for all nightmare. We tend to use the Honda.

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)?

You mean get a different car? I tend to get something with a hatchback due to the dogs....so yes
 
1) What kind of dog you have / how many? One - a welsh sheepdog x lurcher

2) What kind of car do you have? subaru legacy

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)? in the boot

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car? in the boot with a dog guard.

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)? yes, I had a 3 door hatchback when I got the dog so changed to an estate.
 
1 Vizsla x Wirehaired Pointer and 1 Vizsla x Ridgeback.

Landrover Discovery.

Back seats permanently down so they are loose in whole truck behind front seats.

Dog guard up to stop *cough* Hector *cough* getting on front seats.

Alway had 4x4's so no need.

Additional notes:

Rear windows have to be halfway down as both like to have heads out for that windblown look.

Double duvet in back - they like their home comforts :D
 
masterbronze said:
Can I ask out of interest -

1) What kind of dog you have / how many?

2) What kind of car do you have?

3) Where in the car do you put your dog(s)?

4) Do you have any restraints / gadgets you use for your dog(s) in the car?

5) Have you ever changed your car to accomodate your canine friend(s)?
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1. 3 x fox terriers
2. Mits Shogun sport
3. In the boot
4. Just dog guard
5. yes, used to have a pajero swb - not enough boot space and sick of seats down permenantly
 
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