>>1801391>>1801424I used to ride with someone who would bring his small dog along. Nice dog, similar to pic but all rusty color. The dog's location was on top of the rear rack. He said the front rack had too much movement for her, and she would never relax.
He had a rectangle wire basket turned long-ways with a cushion/pad in the bottom. And in the four corners, each had a section of plastic pipe, attached with steel worm screw pipe clamps. Those pipes served as anchors for essentially a mini tent that he made. It's simple sewing, four flat panels, with a channel at the seams to insert those funky collapsible fiberglass tent poles.
The front-facing and rear-facing panels were made out of a nylon fabric called "monolite". You can see through it, air goes through it, but water is too big for the spaces between the threads. Imagine cupping your palms under a faucet, and the water pools in them. A patch of this fabric does the same thing, but it sure looks like it wouldn't. There was a storm flap for the front & back that attached with velcro, but you could still roll it down for ventilation.
No zippers or anything, so to let the dog in or out he had to pop one of the poles out (essentially lifting a corner of the tent).
That's the gist of it. Kind of a serious setup, but this guy took his dog on month long tours. Keeping the sun off was as important as keeping the dog dry, but he also wanted a setup that packed down pretty small when it wasn't being used (the poles & tent were about the size of a paper towel tube, when stowed).
