Dog box

Richard tea

Hello all,

I'm considering a dog box for my gsd. He is getting too big for the car now. I'm interested in the type that hook onto a tow bar. Not the trailer type with wheels. Anybody any experience this type? It's just for short 20 minute journeys.

Knine

Richard tea wrote: »

Hello all,

I'm considering a dog box for my gsd. He is getting too big for the car now. I'm interested in the type that hook onto a tow bar. Not the trailer type with wheels. Anybody any experience this type? It's just for short 20 minute journeys.

I could be wrong but I have only seen them for smaller lighter breeds. Also I would be worried about safety if you got rear ended. What type of car have you got?

Richard tea

Knine wrote: »

I could be wrong but I have only seen them for smaller lighter breeds. Also I would be worried about safety if you got rear ended. What type of car have you got?

A 7 seater. He takes up the rear 2 seats in his crate at the moment. I have seen some that can hold a gsd. I'm aware of the safety issue but a trailer or box is the only option.

tk123

Would you not just get him a good car harness and clip him into one of the rear seats? My friend has squeezed my 2 retrievers and her basset hound into her Ford Fiesta a couple of times lol.

Richard tea

tk123 wrote: »

Would you not just get him a good car harness and clip him into one of the rear seats? My friend has squeezed my 2 retrievers and her basset hound into her Ford Fiesta a couple of times lol.

If it's just myself he can travel in the car no problem. But when the family are traveling there is no room for him. The dog box is literally for a 20 min drive to a canal or lake.

Knine

Ah here I used to fit 2 larger breed dogs in the back of a Fiat Uno. Maybe bring him to the park when the whole family is not in the car. I would not put my hairy family member in one of those boxes.

cocker5

Personally I wouldn’t put my dog in a dog box - too unsafe for all sort of reasons - not too mention he’d probably have a sh*te freak

Can he not sit in the back seat clipped in (no crate) and someone squeeze in beside him ? One dog doesn’t take up the entire back two seats

muddypaws

I saw one fall off the back of a van with dogs in a couple of years ago, going up a hill, the box rolled down to the bottom of the hill, I don't know how the dogs were.

DBB

Folks,
Can we stay on topic please?
The op has asked a question, so from hereon in please post if you can answer the specific query. The point about safety concerns has already been raised, so there's no need to continue that line of posting.
The op has also stated that he can't always fit the dog inside the car, so there's little point in continuing to pressure him into ways of transporting the dog inside the car.
Thanks,
DBB

tk123

Richard tea wrote: »

If it's just myself he can travel in the car no problem. But when the family are traveling there is no room for him. The dog box is literally for a 20 min drive to a canal or lake.

Ah apologies - I took it from your posts that he was in the back seats when everyone else was in the car too! Dogfooddirect stock loads of travel crates/boxes - I haven't seen any with wheels in their FB posts but I'd say they might be able to point you in the right direction of either somebody who makes them or they might have a contact for another exhibitor at shows who does them.

gozunda

Richard tea wrote: »

Hello all,

I'm considering a dog box for my gsd. He is getting too big for the car now. I'm interested in the type that hook onto a tow bar. Not the trailer type with wheels. Anybody any experience this type? It's just for short 20 minute journeys.

My neighbour has one of these. Seems to do the job.

http://www.ginnellfibreglass.com/dog-boxesrvfxl/index.html

Richard tea

gozunda wrote: »

My neighbour has one of these. Seems to do the job.

http://www.ginnellfibreglass.com/dog-boxesrvfxl/index.html

Yes thats the exact type im inquiring about. When the time comes ill give them a try. The safety of this type box is a valid point and ill take it on board. If I get one it will be for very short journeys.

Why not get a small trailer, would be a better job than them boxs?

My neighbour never allows the dog in his jeep and uses a small trailer to bring him around. He travels over an hour each-way on the motorway every weekend with the dog in the trailer going to/from his home place and never has any problems.

Richard tea

Harmoni Flat Rail wrote: »

Why not get a small trailer, would be a better job than them box?

My neighbour never allows the dog in his jeep and uses a small trailer to bring him around. He travels over an hour each-way on the motorway every weekend with the dog in the trailer going to/from his home place and never has any problems.

All depends on price and space. Even the smallest of trailers take up alot of room.