do you let your dog go on car rides?

[Twisterdog]

I personally don't take the dogs in the car unless it is for a purpose ... a trip to the vet or a run in the desert. I just don't really care for riding in vehicles with dogs. I suppose if I took them more often, they would be calmer, but as it is, it is a BIG production for them and they are very hyper.

My husband, however, takes Lucky with him whenever he can ... to the post office, the store, to stop in at work. Hey, it's his truck ... he wants it full of dog hair, HE can clean it.

[Sparklecoon]

I try to give each dog a car trip once a month. Reggin and Indy have come to gether but they prefer their own days. Both will sit in the passenger seat either solo or on mine or Josh's lap. Zoe absolutely adores rolling around in the summer with the top down. She's a passenger seat kind of girl and is super well behaved. Henny has to go in Josh's Ford Ranger with the passenger seat removed because she just doesn't fit in my care. I'm looking to buy a Jeep this summer that I can just take the back seat out of permanantly.

[Denyce]

Sequoia absolutely LOVES car rides. We take her everywhere we can during the winter months. Being a husky the cold isn't a problem at all for her. When we have meetings in the evenings for our State Animal Response Team we let her stay in the car because she is happier there than she is at home by herself. We try to take her somewhere she enjoys at least once a week. But you ask her if she wants to go on a car ride and she starts spinning circles and wooing and leaping about. Once she gets in the car she lies down in the back seat and takes a nap unless we start singing and then she will join in.

In the summer months we try and go on as many picnics as we can so she still gets car rides but we don't take her with us on errands. It is just too hot. In fact for her if it gets near 50 degrees and is sunny at all it is too warm in the car for her by herself. One of us then stays in the car with her.