Jeep question.

[Josh Kunde]

I just invested in a '73 Jeep CJ5, and I dont really know how I can hall my dogs around in it.lol it doesnt really have enough room unless they are just riding in the cab. I was thinking about modifying this little trailer I have and putting a dog box on it. What do you guys think? I mean for those of you with jeeps what do you do? I only need to hall around two or three dogs.
Josh

[easttenngator]

Build 3 rig mounts on the hood.......or build a 3 dog side by side dog box for right behind the small back seat in the jeep

[Josh Kunde]

that was one of the possibilities I was thinkin of was taking the back seat outand putting a small box there, but the hood idea sounds good. Thanks
Josh

[Emily]

and my Jeep is a Cherokee, which is bigger, But my hound rides around on a seatbelt and rigs through an open window. Get a harness for each dog. They make special harnesses for seat belts, but any harness will do. Most harnesses have aD-ring for leash attachment on the back and the better ones have a loop you can run the male end of the seatbelt through. If not, petsmart and the like carry a seatbelt link that has a snaphook you attach to the harness and a male seatbelt end you can plug into the female end attached to the car, or you can make such an adapter yourself. You want to make sure the attachments are short--you don't want multiple dogs hanging each other up, or individual dogs trying to jump out the window and dangling. I'v had 3 adult hounds in the Jeep this way with two humans, and there was room for at least one more.

The disadvantages to this:
your entire Jeep will smell like a dog box unless you are very clean about it (I'm not). Its especially fun when they've been skunked.

The dogs may open a half inch from your ear. I had one dog that used to do this and it took some getting used to!

[Farmhand]

Take out all seats except the drivers seat. Load the dogs and tie off to the roll bar so they can't cause you to wreck. I have been caught hauling four 80-90lb Black&Tans that way no problem. I wouldn't bother to tie them in but I don't need one in my lap while driving. Works good for me.

[Josh Kunde]

thakns for the advice everybody.

[Spokerider]

I've got a Tracker for my dogs. Welded a hitch on the front and will make a platform that slides into the hitch for rigging the dogs on. When not rigging, the platform will slide into the rear hitch. I took out the back seats for traveling to and from the hunting area for them.