Dog Transport

This is how our dog is accommodated in the dingy [biggrin]

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Well if we are moving onto other modes of transport....
This is Zeros' preferred mode of marine transport
Note that we are scooting along at 36kn while pic was taken
Only drawback of course is it slows down access to the beer!

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Of course the pup has a less relaxed seating preference ;)

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Steve

Maybe you should slow down a bit.
From your second image it looks like travelling at 36kts made "Zero" seasick [bigrolf]

Second picture is our other GSP, the pup - Mollie, she was just completely captivated by the waves splashing along the hull.
What was more fun was about 10 minutes later we came across a bait ball of tuna/trevally/queenfish and sharks with birds whooping about... Poor little thing went apoplectic trying to get them!
Lucky mum was holding the lead.

"slow down"

What do such words mean?
When its flat its time to blow the cobwebs out!

S

Hate to do the wet blanket routine, but seriously, dogs should be restrained in a proper harness. Some of the dogs in the pics here would way 40-50 Kg. Not something you want flying around in the cabin in the event of an accident. Aside from the damage to the dog, those things can break YOUR neck, or one of your kids.

Hi folks

I am super-interested in this thread. We are due to collect our first ever pup in March next year ( I'm really excited about that!) and we travel lots. Hector our Land Rover is a 110 ute so the pup will be riding out back.

At present we have a canvas canopy enclosing the loadbed (LR original) but the trouble is that the sides don't role up to give pup a view outside. Im guessing we're going to have e a bespoke canvas cover made that allows the sides to be rolled up and tied -like the back.

That way the pup will be able to stick his head out of the sides to see whats going on and where we're heading. We'll also open up that sliding window at the back of the single cab so he can stick his head in with us if he wants.

When people have a dog in the tray of their ute do they secure them there? If so how? Would hate to have a dog with a neck collar jump off the side of the vehicle!


My wife and I are also planning for taking our dog flying in our aircraft, and I've been reading up on CASA regs on this. As far as I can tell, nobody in north Australia takes a blind bit of notice to those regs -we always see dogs bouncing out of planes when they park up on our friends' properties.

Cheers

Alan

Alan
For many years I travelled with dogs in ute both unrestrained and on collar
Never totallly happy with it. I would say on a chain is as bad as unrestrained for numerous reasons....

But I got smart and with these two boisterous GSP I built a box for them.
It has been great. - the hounds love it and travel happily for hours
I made it narrow for two reasons - one more tray space and two to contain the dogs!
When camping we run an engel on one side on a drop slide cam still fit both dogs but they are s little more cramped...

Steve

our flat coated retriever, Grover, goes on the false floor in the back of the 90. We put in a cargo barrier net and on camping trips with him we stack the wolf crates up a bit and tie them back so he has enough room.
If we are out working him a few old towels help keep things a bit tidy.
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Finally went for a drive in the back of the Defender last weekend.
She started off all interested in looking at the world through the window, but soon got bored of that and fell asleep. Although that might have been the fact she was absolutely pooped after her first trip to the beach...
"Wow I can run over here and dig here... And I can run here and dig here too. And here. And here..."
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Can't really see in those pics but her harness was plugged into the seatbelt!