Our dog is always in the bed of the PU in Wyoming. I think everyone in the state of WY has a dog in the PU bed. However, you do have to be careful. We were in CA and left him in the bed for a short time and the SPCA kidnapped him. Put our dog Jake in jail, used a very aggressive muzzle, crushed his nasal capillaries, then threw him into a filthy jail cell and exposed him to spinal meningitis. They dropped the charges and released Jake but it cost us over a thousand dollars because Jake was in critical care for almost a week with spinal meningitis. You have to be careful where you are when your dog is in the PU bed. Unless we are in Wyoming we leave our dog in the MH. I no longer donate to the SPCA. These animals are better off as strays than in their filthy jail cells where they are subject to poor treatment. JMHO