Best piece of advice I could give somebody is if the only time your dogs are on the truck are too and from hunts, you are doing the dogs a disservice. I pack my dogs around from early on, fixing fence, fishing, hauling cows, going to the roping pen. Pick a dog, chain his ass in the bed and go on about your day. Whether he ever comes unsnapped or not, he’s learning a lot more than he would be sitting in that kennel at 6 months old my 2 pups have likely seen more miles and country than most peoples 1.5 year olds. My gyp pup will ride unsnapped with the big dogs, head in the wind rolling 70, outside of hearing a bay, she ain’t coming off unless I send the big dogs over the bed rail or drop the tail gate.
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I agree. I don't bring mine into town but I do start taking them for rides in the evenings after work in my buggy or truck when they get to 5ish months of age. the pups I raise are 100% chain/lead broke before they are ever placed on a chain or clipped to a lead in the woods because they are conditioned to being clipped in the bed of my buggy or truck and know the drill. Makes life easy when its time to move them from the puppy yard to the dog yard on chain setups, there is zero fighting the chain and barking/flipping out. Just one of 100's of little subtle shortcuts that can help you and the dogs with relatively no effort........ my little girl loves going for buggy rides so we would be doing it whether I had dogs or not but being as I do i'm killing 2 birds with one stone....plus I enjoy riding too lol so call it 3 birds
