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The best ways to restrain a dog in a car is to use either a dog back seat hammock, a dog seat belt and car harness, a dog car booster seat, a zip-line harness, a dog travel crate, a dog boot guard or a back seat barrier. How do I protect my dog from a car boot?Ways to ensure your dog’s safety in the car boot Dogs either need to be secured in the boot and a guard in place to block access to the passenger interior or in a secured crate or cage within the boot. If you use a harness, ensure it is the right size and fitted correctly. How do you travel with a dog in a boot?If your dog prefers to sit in the boot, it is also recommended to fit a boot gate to prevent them from jumping through to the front of the vehicle. A boot gate also protects your dog and passengers from harm during an accident: your dog will still need to be secured using a harness or crate. Can dogs legally travel in the boot?You can travel with your pets in the boot if you use a headrest dog guard between the boot and the rear passenger seats. This allows them to move around without affecting your driving. Mesh or metal guards will protect you in the event of an accident, but not your pet. IT IS INTERESTING: Your question: Why is dog skinny? How do you secure a dog in the boot UK?Dogs Safety In Car Boot
Can you put a dog in a saloon boot?For smaller dogs, cats and other pets, a pet carrier is a good option. … Never put a carrier in the boot of a saloon car as your pet could suffocate, and avoid putting it unsecured in the boot of a hatchback or estate car, as the carrier will be thrown around in a crash. Do dogs have to be restrained in a vehicle?Rule 57 of the Highway Code states: “When in a vehicle make sure dogs or other animals are suitably restrained so they cannot distract you while you are driving or injure you, or themselves, if you stop quickly. A seat belt harness, pet carrier, dog cage or dog guard are ways of restraining animals in cars.” 
Roxie is currently clipped in via harness on the back seat of the car, but I’d like to move her into the boot. I’ll be buying a guard to stop her getting through into the backseat, but I feel like I should be securing her in the boot in case of an accident (touch wood I’ll never need it!). I’m thinking of something that attached to the headrest maybe?
Do others secure the dog in the boot or leave them loose in there? I have a small car (and a small dog!) so there isn’t space for a crate in the boot.
Ours are loose behind a dog guard.
My other worry is if I’m in an accident where I’m rear-ended. Maybe I should just leave her on the back seat 🙈
If you are worried about that then yes I would. I prefer mine on the back seat but OH gets all emotional about it (dirt) so they are in the back.
I'd always go for fixed cages or boxes. Mainly because I used to live on a bad bend and I used to see how far things got thrown out of/around vehicles even in the event of a low speed crash.
Mine are crated in the back. Those harnesses keeping them strapped in on the back seats are fine though.
You could always consider a tailgate guard. I had this set up when I had a Skoda. Companies like Barjo and guardsmen make them and you can fit yourself. Now I have a van with bespoke caging
Personally I think it sounds safer to travel wearing a car harness in the back seat, compared to travelling in the boot, but presumably you have some reason to want to switch. I've seen something called a Dog Car Zipline, said to be able to be used anywhere in the car where you can attach the hooks to something. I don't have a driving license, and haven't thought much about the inside of car boots, but I know there is several quirky features in my dad's Citroen, so I would probably find something to attach a zipline to in his car boot. However I would probably want to switch those open hooks, to something closeable.
https://www.kurgo.com/dog-seat-belts/auto-zip-line-leash-zip-line-combo/ https://www.wildextreme.co.uk/products/dog-car-boot-restraint-1
https://www.kurgo.com/dog-seat-belts/auto-zip-line-leash-zip-line-combo/
i have the back seats down permanently and the crate immediately behind the front seats as i worry what would happen if i was rear ended by a lorry or large vehicle. i feel they are safer closer to the front... if yours is small dog why not continue with him/her on the back seat. you can get seat covers or special ones for the dog, google equus,and look at henry wag pet car hammock
I’m just thinking about if I’m driving my nieces and nephews in the car and them annoying her in the back seat. I was wondering if it would be better to have her in the boot then? She’s good with kids, but you never know!
I’m just thinking about if I’m driving my nieces and nephews in the car and them annoying her in the back seat. I was wondering if it would be better to have her in the boot then? She’s good with kids, but you never know! The car harness loop fits just as well on a seatbelt when they're sitting in someone's knee, by the way.
I have a solid dog guard and leave mine loose behind it .
2 of mine are in crash tested crates in the boot and one is on the backseat clipped in on her harness. Once we have the new car it will be the safe for most trips and all on seats for camping.
My two are loose in the boot. I simply don't have room in the car anywhere else (kids are on backseat). The boot is suitable for muddy spaniel and car sick whippet.
Mine are loose in the boot behind a dog guard.
The only time I ever used a seatbelt type affair was with Willow and she spun around, wrapped it around her knee, pulled away and popped out her knee!! £2000 of surgery later for a £5 seatbelt
Could you get one of the fold up crates as she's only diddy? Would stop any issues with small people and still keep her safe.
With three biggies and a diddy one we have a bit of a mix depending on how far we're travelling. Generally it's now two in the boot and two on the back seat. The car is a Merc 4x4 so reasonably spacious. I'd quite like to get two crash tested crates for the boot. Would have to resurrect the roof box if we need to carry and luggage as well.
MY dog is small , he travels in a plastic crate with a handle on top that you can put the seat belt through. If we have two passengers in the back we put his crate in the middle
For short trips for wet/muddy walks our pup (springer possibly crossed with collie and/or corgi, but defo springer-sized) does just fine in the boot loose. She has blankets to curl up in, and I drive very considerately when she is there and we don't go very far. I would probably re-think for long journeys and secure her in a crate - but for walks she is probably in the car for (max) two minutes.
I'm having to rethink where I attach the big dogs when on the back seat. They have a harness on and it clips via a strap into a seatbelt thingy, but they're standing on it and undoing it! Today I looped the strap around one of the head rest stems for the journey home.
I was wondering if I could get a longer strap and attach to one of the cargo hooks through in the boot.
Ta. I have good harnesses (and a couple of really expensive and absolutely useless ones!). It's the bit that goes into the car seat belt fastener thing that's the issue - the dogs stand on the fastener thing and undoes them!
Just a little word of warning regarding harnesses attached to seatbelt. I know of a dog (basset hound) that was attached to a seat belt on the back seat via a harness. The car was involved in an accident and although the dog wasn’t killed he had spinal injuries from being thrown forward and then “snapped” by the restraint. He survived but needed a set of wheels as his back end was paralysed. Possibly injuries were worse because he was a long backed breeds
Sadly, even when you use a safety product to keep your dog safe, injuries can happen. And it doesn't even need to be in a car accident, sometimes dogs have managed to get tangled in the seatbelt, sometimes they've managed to pull something in through the bars of their crate/cage... I still think it is better to use something, than nothing.
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