Tie downs for dogs/ Fasteners/ 2020 Tacoma

I would not use those little tiedowns for anything heavy...

the bed is composite, I would recommend big fender washers behind the composite.

NOTHING WRONG WITH DOGS IN THE BED. this site is full of wannabe this and that fanboys... lots of them have no idea what a working dog really is, to them, its a fad for mall crawling.

Either leave the dog completely loose in the bed, or have the dog in a crate that is secured to the bed. Tying a dog by its neck to the bed is a bad idea. I have seen people harness (not by the neck) their dogs to both sides of the bed and the dog was quite secure.

 

So, just to summarize, you actually agree with everyone else that chaining a dog (or dogs) to the bed of a truck is a bad idea.

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Dogs can be trained to work out of crate. It's a lazy owner who says they cannot.

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Some people on this site aren't "cityslickers."
Some own dogs.
Some have opinions on how best to transport dogs.
Some even work their dogs.

 

What about adding a cap, or dog boxes like used for hunting dogs? Might be nice for the dogs to have a little shade, water, maybe a little comfort between jobs.

 

To those that addressed my question, FishaRnekEd & Rock Lobster, many thanks. To SOME of the others, I am in awe of your ability to take a subject and use it as a platform to judge others (on a completely different subject) without knowing 90% of the situation. Moreover, this is a forum for vehicles, not animal rights...if I have questions about the welfare of our dogs, I will find a forum for that. My daughter just got an Italian Greyhound and we go to sites/forums for Iggy questions...and we do not shame people about the vehicles that appear on those sites, we keep it focused on Iggys. And, yes, the Iggy always rides shotgun.

 

Oh yeah, forgot to post the part number for the OEM D rings w backer plates

 

Look brother, I don't know you from Adam. For all we know, you are short a few rancher chromosomes and really did not understand the risks associated with chaining a dog by his neck to the bed of a truck. Some here were just expressing concerns for your pups and for good reason given the limited context you started this thread with. As we say here south of the MD line: bless your heart!

 

This is where I added my tie downs. The low, smaller ones have been in there since right after I bought the truck in 2011. I put a backer plate under the bed that's slightly larger than the footprint of the metal strap holding down the D-ring.

The big tie downs I added a few years ago for my camper. The backing plate is a match for the four pronged star shaped mounting plate the D-ring strap is welded to. Found a pic, added it below the first. I've used these big ones for thousands of miles now and they've held up great. Camper weighs a good bit over 1000 pounds.

 

Dogs ride inside the truck, not the bed!

 

And in regard to dogs always being in the truck... I've never done this, but where I come from this used to be super common. My uncle would pull in to my grandparents like this all the time. 2 on the hood, 4 on a box in the bed. Obviously not hitting the freeway...

not my pic, just searched for an image of a carpeted hood with dogs, lol.

 

I'll never understand people who think like this, anything you say in a public forum is open to scrutiny, that's how a forum works. If you wanted to keep the comments regarding concern for the safety of animals to zero, then you shouldn't have mentioned that you were intending to restrain dogs in the inside of your bed, you could have simply asked about the strength of the tie downs and the best means/methods of adding more. People make thousands of judgements every day given the information available to them, to think that you're immune from judgement based on the original information that you posted is asinine. We can only comment on what we know, and from your OP, your intentions were unclear. Learn from it, move on, and keep that in mind the next time you ask a question online, because you are voluntarily opening yourself up to criticism based on the information that you provide. People will also give you a much shorter leash when the safety of animals is even 0.001% in question, which is why you received so many comments about it.

 

Yeah, that was a girl that I knew in college, it happened before the California law regarding securing dogs in truck beds. She was devastated. Her boyfriend and her parked under some trees and went to swim in a nearby river next to the road. It didn’t take them long to get back, but it was too late. I thought they were irresponsible for even leaving the dogs in a truck like that, but I didn’t say it. She definitely learned her lesson - it took her weeks to stop crying about it in class.

 

I had a lab that liked to roll in fresh sh*t. Any type of sh*t, sheep sh*t, coyote sh*t, and the worse type of sh*t - the kind with TP stuck to it. He definitely rode in back after doing any of that!

I understand about ranch dogs, my lab was one when I worked as a land manager. California requires dogs riding in the bed to have their leashes be anchored in the center of the bed so they can’t jump out (my friend’s experience posted about her two dogs explains why).

Ranch and other working dogs don’t have to be leashed when riding in a bed under this law. But if you have to secure them, it wouldn’t be a bad thing for you to do it from the center, as you could then reach through the rear window to clip or unclip the leash before you have to put your mudders on to get out of your truck.

As for other comments that seemed off topic, everyone means well here and should not be chastised for expressing their opinions about the general subject of how best to transport a dog. City or Ranch, we all love our dogs!

 

Many of these people have the highest quality, expensive and well designed off road parts on their trucks. Tactical crap and other farkles. They don't even use their truck as a truck and would be better off in a prius...
Lots of them even buy tactical dogs. LMFAO, the worst type of dog as a pet at that.

But they talk, boy, are they opinionated about things that they do not understand. They work in an office, but will judge you for using your working dogs to work.

LMFAO, and they immediately point themselves out too. (ask me how i can spot them )

 

I would use the floor tie downs. Pretty well guarantied to work best

 

I installed the Versa trax in my bed, great set up, tie downs are removable. And it’s attached to the frame.

 

Her harness is attached to a tether which is strung to the seat belt which is through her seat.

 

Now that’s a happy dog!

 

For some people dogs are tools, not pets. You don’t put a dirty dog on the backseat anymore than you’d put a dirty chainsaw on the backseat.

 

Here’s our rescued foo foo dog, trying to figure out what cows are for the first time. She tried to go back to hang out with them when we stopped a little later.

This was a slow drive, else I would have not let a dog sit at such an open window like that. It’s sad seeing dogs that obviously jumped or fell or were abandoned alongside freeways.

 

Yup, especially bad ones that rolled in sh*t!