Where does your dog ride w/ 4 people onboard (crew cab)

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jp28173

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Going on a family vacation (10 hour drive each way) this weekend with the wife and two kids (8 & 6). The kids have booster seats on each side of the rear bench seat (60/40), so no bulky carseats involved. We're bringing our dog, she's only about 45 lbs, but I'm struggling with where she will ride. I'm thinking there's really only three options:

1) back seat in between the kids with pillows stacked up on the floor to create sort of a "bridge" up to the rear of the center console
2) up front in between my wife and I with the console flipped back (front bench seat), again with some sort of pillows stacked up on the floor on the hump between the front driver and passenger floorboards to level out with the seat and give her some more space
3) stack up pillows in the rear driver and passenger floorboards to level out the floor and let her lay there under the kids feet (their feet don't touch the floor as is anyway.

Or, get something like this that looks like the side panels each fold inward to accommodate the kids... or worst case cut away the panels so only the center and front parts remain.

Any other ideas or suggestions from anyone, or has anyone been in this situation before and found a great solution? I've only had the RAM for a few months so haven't run into this issue yet. Any input is welcome and appreciated.
 
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I really wouldn't worry about stacking pillows. 45lbs. dog should be able to get around ok without too much problems in the back seat with the kiddos.
 

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Mine doesn't want to be anywhere other than on that damn center console. We put a sheet folded up to keep him from scratching it.
 

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You can get a dog car harness that secures to the middle seatbelt. Up front there is the matter of the air bags which could badly injure a 45-lb dog.
 

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We did option 1 for cross country, worked great. Pillows and a flat dog bed on top to level out.
 

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"GTyankee" posted a good picture of the temporary floor floded down on his truck. Does anyone have a picture of that same area in a Ram P/U with the larger rear doors? (His truck appears to have the smaller rear doors.) In searching for my next Ram I want to get one that my dog (German Shepheard) will be comfortable riding in and not sure about the smaller rear passenger compartment area.

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Looking Goooooooooooooddddd!!!
Since I am the only 2 legged person here, both of my Dogs would be in the back seat area. Till one of them jumped into the front.

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My truck is a Quad Cab

If yours is a Crew Cab, you have about 4 or 5 more inches in the back seat area

set your front seats so that you are comfortable
Build yourself either a plywood floor between the front seats & rear
or
stuff some old quilts between the front & rear seats

then the dog will have the area between the kids seats & using the quilts, it can go look out the windows & or put its front legs & head between you & your other half
 

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If I took longer trips with our dogs I'd do what @GTyankee said and build a plywood floor. Since our trips are always less then an hour with the dogs and 2 kids that are both in car seats. The pug either roams around on the rear floor and lab takes the last remaining back seat or they both share the remaining back seat.
 
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