I'm hoping that some of you very knowledgable people maybe able to help.

I collect my Yeti on Saturday (hopefully ) and I need to get a dog guard asap - I have the raised floor for the spare wheel.

I want a full length dog guard, so I can take our the rear seats, and the dogs can't escape, and also a tailgate guard.

I'm worried about being able to access the spare wheel with some.

Something like this

However, would these feet fit behind the rear seats and still allow access to the spare?

Also

for the tailgate, but again, will I be able to access the floor?

Or does anyone know of any other available options, so help save me some ££ for a custom made on...??

Many Thanks,

Mr.P

I use a removable dog cage for my springer. it wasn't cheap, but much better in my opinion than a cage as its completley self contained and removable. Its made by a company called Athag. Athag Guardsman or alternatively Lintran. Lintran

If you need me to, drop me a PM and I'll get some photos of it in the back of my vRS tomorrow

Edited 1 November, 201015 yr by octaviaconvert

I'm hoping that some of you very knowledgable people maybe able to help.

I collect my Yeti on Saturday (hopefully ) and I need to get a dog guard asap - I have the raised floor for the spare wheel.

I want a full length dog guard, so I can take our the rear seats, and the dogs can't escape, and also a tailgate guard.

I'm worried about being able to access the spare wheel with some.

Mr.P

You might get the one behind the seats if the seats are pushed forward, but the tailgate one looks like it rests on the floor, which means it would rest on the spare wheel floor.

I bow to those with greater knowledge though (enter TP/90000 stage right).

Mike

We have a custom made one in our Mitsubishi Mooselander from Hamster Baskets.

Since the Yeti is much squarer, it might be possible to get a standard cage. If you go for rear/door guards as shown in your pics, you may up with the side luggage rails chewed.

I tried a dog guard but was not happy with it so I went down the dog cage route. They fit really well into the Yeti as the back window is so straight meaning you can get it right up to the boot lip without danger of the back window smashing. Mine was just £24 delivered off Ebay, new, and it is excellent. Throw a bit of vet bedding in there and you are sorted. Looking at the pictures you posted the guards you are looking for are just like a giant cage so you may as well go the whole hog.

I also found out that letting my dog roam in the boot allowed her to chew on the boot hand pull and also the handles on the rear seats as well. They stick out very invitingly for a dog, just like a chew toy really. The cage allows these handles to survive.

The guard on the first picture should work since there is a gap between the seats and the spare wheel enclosure. So a guard can go down to the floor:

And then some of TP's pictures I hope he does not mind me showing:

90000 - One of the problems that I found with a dog guard is that the legs need to go down straight but the angle of the rear seats does not allow that unless your feet intrude quite a way into the boot. You are quite right about the gap that exists but could the legs go into there and still stand vertically? If they can that is great but I could not manage it with my guard (it was my first go at a dog guard so I may not have been the best at fitting it) I also found that a guard restricted some of the flexibility of the seats and the boot. A cage is very simple to lift out and if you want to fold the seats forward to put a long object in you can do it without having to dismantle the whole system or allow your dog through (I have a cocker spaniel and her cage goes lengthways in the boot meaning I have half a boot for her and half for luggage still)

90000 - One of the problems that I found with a dog guard is that the legs need to go down straight but the angle of the rear seats does not allow that unless your feet intrude quite a way into the boot.

Ah... looking at the Roomster pic above it looked as if the bottom of the guard was in fact at the same angle as the seat. I think end of the day you will only be able to see how this works by trying out an actual guard.

You'll find I've also questioned this many a time before - but for slightly different reasons! See this thread and the linked thread in the first post of that: http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/169677-dog-guardluggage-guard/

You are ahead of your time! I seem to remember after my failed attempt with a guard thinking that the guards attached to headrests would be best in a Yeti but this method is no use to Mr P who wants a full length one.