I guess you'd say my britney rides shotgun but thats cuz its a reg. cab but truth be told she's consantly running back and forth window to window.

 

My boy Tank, 140 pound Alaskan Malamute, gets the back seat in my Excursion, anyone else that comes along has to ride in the 3rd row seat. I roll the back windows down and he alternates windows sticking his head out and scaring people.

 

My King German Shepard"Kodiak" rides shot gun in My 85' and my dad flips the seats up in his EX cab and she gets back there to her self. Mom won't let us put her in the bed unless were just driving around a field in which case my brother is in the bed with her. Hey they smell the same!

She's to old to be in the bed. I just shop vac the mountain of hair clumps after were done. Not to bad on the smooth seats worse on my dad's leather seats. It's harder to get the nose smears out of the windows.

DT

 

Front seat period. Ain't no back seat. Nose out the window. If window is up the fact that the window needs to be lowered is made clear - you know the drill.

Russ

 

I'm currently between dogs, but I've always had (and probably always will have) German Shepherds. They always rode shotgun in whatever I was driving, peering excitedly through the windshield or sticking their face out the window into the breeze...(why is it they love to do that but hate it when you blow in their faces? I don't think it's my breath...) So I had to clean dogsnot off the inside of the windshield and hair off the seats (and everything else) that's a small price to pay for having your best buddy by your side. And I never had to worry about locking the vehicle in a parking lot. Leave the windows open, doors unlocked, when there's a fully-grown German Shepherd in the front seat, no one's going to mess with your vehicle! Alarms? We don't need no stinkin' alarms! Many's the time I returned to the vehicle to find Asko, my last German Shepherd, in the driver's seat, looking at me expectantly. I'd just tell him to shove over, he was too young to drive.
(Pic of Asko, taken near Calico Tourist Trap Ghost town, near Barstow Ca. Lost him to cancer 2 years ago, age 9.)

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-TD

 

Well my malamute (timber) always rode in the truck bed he loved
the wind from driving. And my norweigian elk hound rode up front
shotgun cuz he would jump out if not for the window.

 

Nikita, our German Shepherd, rides shotgun in the regular-cab F-150 or back in the camper, when it is attached, and in the backseat of the BMW. Cabelas sells nylon seat covers that help a lot with the hair, mud on paws, etc. She does not slobber like the retrievers.

Jim

 

I hear you on that. Our shepard came from Germany my dad picked her parents based on the blood line. She's 150lb. solid. All black with tan legs,belly, and behind the ears. Some kind of special german training.(that she's probally forgot) People are scared of her and all she does issit there and pant.

It's funny to see people get into a car next to her and she licks their back!! they jump and scream and she has never hurt any thing.

But it lowers the house insureance. Cause we have a large dog.

 

My German Shepherd and Golden Retreiver ride in the rear of our Explorer and Aerostar. Neither shows any interest in riding shotgun or keeping the driver's seat warm when the vehicle is parked.

 

When I go places and stop if its hot out I leave the windows up and the truck running with the air on, Malamutes are not made for hot weather. Last summer my dog stood on the door panel and hit the power lock button with the truck running. I didnt have a spare key and this was my Ram and didnt have keyless entry. I had to call my dad and he went to my house and got my spare key's. The entire time the truck was running and the dog just stared at me like I was an idiot for standing around in the heat.
If its nice out I have to leave the windows half way up when I go in somplace. I stopped at a Quick trip one time and while I was getting a fountain drink I heard people making noise and when I turned around there was my dog staring at me. I had done this a 100 times and he never got out, this time he decided to find out what I did when I went in to that strange place. Everyone laughed and the guy working there gave me the drink for free.

 

I have 2 dogs - Dozer is the brindle Corgi / German Shepherd mix (odd isn't it?) while Ares is an Australian Cattle Dog / Pointer? mix. Dozer ALWAYS rides in the cab, in the front. Ares will either ride in the back seat by himslef or on nice days and short trips he can ride in the bed, with a short chain. He really likes it back there!

 

My Springer rides shotgun. At night, the armrest goes up and he falls asleep with his head on my leg. He's only 60 pounds, so it isn't that bad. I also shut off all the vents except the one in front of him and blow cold air on his face. That way I don't have to open the windows and have him slobber all over the place.

 

Cinch, my Kelpie/Heeler mix doesn't care where he rides, as long as he can go! When he was a pup the only way I could get him to sleep was to put him in the truck seat and drive. He's usually in the back unless it's really hot or there's a thunderstorm (he's a big weenie about thunder) so he can snap at semi's and bridges. I'll probably have the ASPCA after me for this, but I'll tell the story anyway. Once he was riding in the back on a long trip and fell asleep on the toolbox, I took a curve in the road a little too fast and he went rolling into the ditch. By the time I got the truck stopped he was hauling butt up the road and he cleared the tailgate getting in. He was a little bloodied up and still has gravel scars on his head from rolling through the ditch, but no permanent damage. I did take him to a vet in the nearest town to make sure he was alright. The scars go nicely with the one he got last summer when a cow split the skin on the top of his head open.

 

CodaSmog - That is HUGE for a rottie, no wonder he had to have ACL surgery... slim that ole boy down!

 

My 4 year old black lab Maggie used to always ride in the cab with me. I would NEVER make her ride outside, thats just plain mean. I used to always turn off the passenger-side airbag when she rode with me.
I say "used" to because she is no longer with us. Unfortunately, she died a little over a month ago. We were playing out in my yard with her Kong ball and she ended up getting it caught in her throat. She had this ball for the past 2 years and we played fetch with it just about every day. She used to even catch the ball in mid-air sometimes and she NEVER swallowed it. Anyways, I rushed her to the vet but no one was there (6:30 pm on a Friday evening). I then rushed her to the emergency room but the doctors were unable to get the ball out of her throat and she died. It sucks, it broke my heart and Im still sad about it almost 6 weeks later. I guess all I can say is that WHY it happened is beyond my understanding at this time. The only comfort that I can really take from this is that someday, when this life has ended, my Maggie and I will be reunited.
I do plan on getting another dog, probably next year. It will be another female black lab. Labs are the best kinda dog there is, in my opinion and I think that the black ones look the best. A friend of my parents who is big into hunting and hunting dogs always says, "if it aint black, it aint a lab".
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