Dog crates for the car

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We have a Transk9. Added bonus is you can get these;) the crate sits on top, no idea why they don’t photograph them together!

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If anyone is interested I am probably going to sell my Trans K9 as my E class has eaten its own engine. Don't think I will be getting another car that it will fit in so will need to upgrade. It will fit A6, E Class, Passat.

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I’d mention it on their fb page, used Transk9’s are pretty sought after.

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parakitaMol. said:

chrisga said:

I'm not sure about the cages with crumple zones built in. I don't understand what they are trying to achieve. If the car is rear ended presumably they crumple/deform, which a normal/cheaper wire cage would do too anyway wouldn't it? Presume pooch gets equally squashed in a rear ender. Or are they supposed to do the opposite and not deform by resisting some of the cars crumple zone (typically the boot floor) to try to maintain a certain open space for the dog? Sounds horrible as ours always travel in our boot crate but if a car is rear ended enough for the boot floor to deform taking a crate with it what are the chances of the dog surviving in either style of crate?

As parakitamol says a full boot crate is great if you go somewhere and need to leave boot open as it can be locked separately.

If we're going anywhere with all the dogs we take the dog van though which is a vito with 4 built in crates. Similar issue though, I do worry about a rear ender in that too so all crates are accessible from the front of the van.

Yes its very important to have front and rear access hatches. I am quite neurotic about the safety aspect, and have worried about the same things. But certainly with the safedog crates the bars that run front to rear slide inside each other and I think that is how they crumple, it is better to understand on their website. I looked at quite a few dog crate companies for my van but absolutely none of them have any features or designs that consider impact... its more about 'stacking' - so I prefer the safe crates in my van which has tie down points in the floor (was previously a MX garage) and my garage is going to build a new mounting block with bulkhead to fit them up against. .

I've had a look at the safe cage site. It seems the "safe" part is all about passengers on the rear seat, not the dogs. The crate will compress in a rear impact so that the rear seat is not pushed forward, meaning potential still for pooch to be squished. I can see this could be a problem if you have a sturdy cage like a transk9 with passengers on the back seat of the car and are rear ended, but i'm pretty sure our cage will deform too if there is a rear impact in the car as its only made from panels of weld mesh held together with a sturdy spring system. To be fair, we don't often carry rear passengers so intrusion on the passenger space isn't a massive worry for us but I could understand if you had kids regularly travelling on the back seats. As I said in my previous post it all seems pretty academic, if the accident is large enough for the crate to intrude on the passenger zone I doubt the dog will have survived anyway unfortunately. The only thing I can see about safety for dogs is that when it compresses there are no sharp edges and you can still open the door. No sharp edges from the crate but if a car has just run in to the back of you there may be sharp edges from other places. I reckon i'd get the door open on our crate if i could access it.

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I never lock my TransK9 tbh.