Dog crates for the car
Discussion
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. . 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.
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