PetSafe Happy Ride Telescoping Dog Ramp, Extra Long

Dog(s) love it!!! One of our dogs, after she got the idea on the FIRST try (not needed to be lifted), just runs right up into the truck! We open it up, the dog goes right up, no prompting at all - and plenty of good traction. The other dog, needs to be told to 'come on up', before he'll go. Yes it gets scratched, but there's no loss of traction for the dogs. They don't need to dig the toenails into groves or ladder-like steps, the sandpaper like finish gives perfect, no slip traction. We opted for the longest ramp to keep the slope angle shallow - that was the right choice! 3 sections makes it pretty compact for a doggie ramp. I cannot imagine having to 'unfold' a ramp this big. It is very strong, sets up FAST, pretty compact, and people at parks are wowed by now easily the dogs climb and descend. Neither of our dogs have every done 'Agility' training, so they'd never, ever, seen a 'ramp' 'tunnel' or poles' before. This was a totally new experience for both dogs (Basset Hound & Swedish Vallhund). Another great thing, it's solid footing & doesn't twist or wobble back n forth like a narrower ramp would. Nor does it suddenly slide together, the thing is designed with a 'lip' like edge, making exiting / entering the ramp smooth & easy for our dogs. Our version is the 3 section one, it just slides apart, and slides back into a decent size package. That process of expanding & collapsing, much easier than I expected. I grab it with two hands, let it slide open & set one end on the edge of the truck's seat. That's all there is to it. To collapse, lift the edge off the seat, and it just slides back to compact, pick it up by the handle on the side, back into the bed of the truck. The ONLY wish it had, a carry handle on BOTH sides. It's got a snap-on-a-strap to keep it from expanding while carrying, only tried it once - because the wife asked, "That's that?" I'd recommend THIS type of dog ramp to anyone.

This is perfect. What else can I say?! I have a 12yo large dog with increasingly poor mobility due to her hip dysplasia and an old ACL injury. I have steps at all four entrances... not many, but even the 3-4 stairs can be hard on her worst days. I had tried a harness and other ways to assist, but those weren't working for us. THIS!!! This is saving her, and my back!! It is heavy. Very solid. Simple to use.. just slide the lower piece out until it's you want it. Again I have five steps at our deck to the backyard, which is where she goes in and out the most. Having the ramp at the top was a little too steep for her so I put it down one step but extended it all the way and that is perfect. I also used it to put her in my Toyota 4Runner to go to the vet. No problem at all!! The non-skid feet on the bottom securely sat on the bumper again extended it all the way out so that she could go up and then slid it together so that I could put it in the back what she was in the seat. Easy easy. It took about a day and a half for her to learn to use it. I would add that the steel rails and non-slip black matte help her see the ramp... (She also has impaired vision with senior dog cataracts which definitely impact her depth perception.) I just can't say enough about this that I know that it will last for longer than she will and is an absolute godsend. On her tired days I do still use a towel under her belly and help her up it, but otherwise she has been super happy to have the ability to go out into her yard and come back in as she pleases. **My old girl is 75 lb lab doberman mix. The ramp barely flexes when she walks up and down it so I'm sure would handle a dog larger. I just wish I'd found this sooner!

This is a well built ramp which I bought for my 7 year old 90 pound Shepherd Husky mix (Cooper). Although he doesn't really need it now, as he is just on the threshold of his senior years, he will need it in a few years. Plus the reduced price was an incentive. Right now I wanted to use it for when he is groggy after a dental and when I give him trazodone with gabapentin to calm him before getting his nails clipped. He is a big strong dog fights during nail trims otherwise! I was able to get this ramp in like new condition for $125 on Amazon. It is well built with the small cons listed by others such as location if the snap lock when collapsed, no actual lock when extended however gravity and dogs weight does hold it in place and it does not collapse. I wish the surface had carpet or rubber instead of the rough sandpaper covering. I read the sandpaper doesn't hold up and starts to peel off after a short time. I will probably replace or add a different material. Now my personal issue. I have a 2018 GMC Sierra 1500 with a double cab. The double cab has a small narrow back seat and smaller door opening to 60 degrees instead of 90 and not allowing for the width of this ramp to fit. I considered either returning it or cutting about 18"-24" length of the metal side rails off making it more narrow on the end going into the truck but found a good work around. By putting the ramp on a angle and putting the left edge on the door lock latch striker while using the PetSafe Happy Ride Dog Rap Adaptor sold separately on Amazon, which clips on the ramp on the right side and clipping to the top of the door frame you have support on both ends of the ramp with minimal angle. I use the right rear passenger door for this. The other side would be reversed of course. I use a Ruff hard bottom extended back seat cover that includes door cover panels. You will most likely need some kind of door cover or protection to keep the ramp from scuffing the door. This $20 strap should have been included with the ramp. Just treats to get Cooper to go up and down at first until he got used to it. I would highly recommend this ramp but if you have a small access opening or a double cab (extended cab) pickup truck you may want to get one more narrow or use this work around. See attached pictures. Update: I removed the sandpaper surface which was quite easy out in the sun which was warm. Didn't need any tools at all. This material sits in a slight recess. I then purchased XGR Home & Garden Runner Rug 2 ft x 7 ft Indoor/Outdoor Low Profile and hd double sided carpet tape. This runner cut to lengths and widths of the recess uses most of the carpet. Was able to just use a pair if scissors to cut it. Once installed found the tape was pretty much useless. Once in the sun or hot vehicle it wouldn't hold and the carpet would come off. So I used small self tapping screws about 1/2 inch and screwed each sections corners and an extra along each edge center. They recessed right into the carpet and everything works perfect without binding at all. Retracts great! Note, I removed the 2 stops and on each side which are removed with a Phillips screwdriver to get the carpet which slides under the top to be under it a few inches then replaced the stops. This ramp now is perfect for my 90 pound Cooper. See additional before ansd after pictures.

We have two dogs--a 14 year-old, 40 lb shepard/lab mix (Skye) and a 6 year-old, 55 lb golden/springer mix (Duette). About a year ago, Skye began to falter when jumping into the back of our SUV and would hesitate when jumping out. Her eyesight has become constrained, and age has caught up to her strength. So, we started lifting her in and out of the back of the SUV, but that was sometimes a struggle and doing so with a wet, just-in-the-lake dog isn't necessarily fun. So--we began to think about a ramp. Our concern was that it be long enough to create a gentle slope into the vehicle, not be so long that we couldn't store it in the back with dogs, light enough to maneuver, and stout enough not to move or bend as the dogs walked along it. We searched among the solutions and looked in the pet stores, but the length/strength/weight combinations were not satisfactory. Then based on some on-line reviews, we found the Solvit TriScope Ramp. We took the advice of Solvit to carefully introduce the ramp to the dogs inside the house, getting them to walk along the surface while offering treats, and slowly but surely raising the ramp to a tilt to get them feeling safe on the surface. This training took about 6 hours in the house. We left it laying about the house overnight so that they got used to it like a piece of doggy furniture. On its first vehicle use, both dogs walked up the ramp confidently. The younger (Duette) still liked to jump up and down, but we now discourage that so her older "sister" will feel more at home walking on the ramp. Now Skye takes the ramp preferentially, with no prompting. Our assessment is that it has made a huge difference in her world. The tri-telescoping feature is great. It packs compactly with the dogs in the back of the SUV; they don't seem to mind. It is light enough that either my wife or I can easily deploy the ramp and pick it up for storage. It has a snap-tie to keep it from accidentally extending if it's tilted accidentally. The snap tie is a little awkward to pull-out as it gets tucked in when the ramp is closed, but a very, very minor inconvenience and certainly not worth a reduction in "stars". Some reviews have complained about the finely gritted surface of the ramp. Our two dogs have no complaints, and watching our 14 year-old Skye walk down it eases my mind that otherwise she may slip and get scared of the ramp. All-in-all, this ramp perfectly met our criteria, our two dogs love it and now prefer it to trying to jump in/out, and it is compact and very strong/stable. We will recommend this to any of our friends.

Ok. I'll save you all some time here: What all the other reviews have said is true. Let's start with the good: It's really really really sturdy. My 100+ lb shepherd goes up and down without even the slightest bowing. It's remarkably light considering. For us, we need the absolute smallest folding ramp both in length and thickness while at the same time being long enough to be climbable. It excels at that. And now...the not so good......You will feel like at any given moment, you might loose a finger or toe in the process. The stupid plastic safety strap...I give it a month tops. I never am entirely convinced it's going to hold to begin with not to mention it's not that easy to collapse the ramp and get that snapped shut. I'll get to the big problem with the ramp in a sec. Got a few gripes first. Deploying the ramp is as other reviewers have noted, a bit of Russian Roulette. My dog is fairly obedient but he's a dog and dogs don't always stay put. Squirrel. Need I say more? So I've got a nice ramp in one hand a dog in the other. While I've gotten a bit better, watching me try and deploy this thing with one hand while holding my dog probably makes for some good entertainment and a good time to cover the ears of your young ones. It takes an act of God to get the ramp extended as far as it will go while simultaneously positioning it just so so that it doesn't slide and doesn't make ruin of that gorgeous red paint job you paid too much for. The ramp does not lock as you extended it. It depend on the weight to lock it in place. I guess it works. It hasn't collapsed yet. But it would be much easier if the sections locked when fully extended so that you could position the ramp more easily. The ramp doesn't have any safety strap either to keep it from slipping off the bumper or to the side, especially if the ground is slippery. I went to the hardware store and got two high grip rubber stair liners - one for my bumper to grip and protect the paint, and one for the ground to keep the bottom of the ramp secure if the ground is wet. I'm sure you get the picture. But the one thing that absolutely totally completely really SUCKS is that sand paper grip that they put on the ramp. Honestly, you get one chance with this ramp. If your dog has a bad experience with it, good luck in getting him back on it. This grip paper is sharp and I knew better than to even try. Like another reviewer suggested, I got vinyl non-skid shelf liner. It's spongy -- kind of like a really thin yoga mat. The dog didn't mind it and up an down he went....twice. The second time, his nails dug in and tore the mat material to bits. So fine. I accept that. What I don't accept is that not only did the matting material shred, but the sand paper grip under it. It's awful and it's really flimsy. I ended up taking a heat gun and peeling the sand paper grip off and gluing down some industrial rubber lining. It's soft enough that the dog doesn't mind it and grips well enough he doesn't slip. That reviewer that suggested the non-slip liner used tape to pull the liner under the next section. Do your self a favor and just unscrew the rubber stops and lay the sections out flat. The bottom line: I hate it. I love it. It scares me to use it but the dog does use it. The side rails are tall and that helps!. It's stronger than any ramp I've seen and it folds up smaller than any I've seen as well. So....it wins.

It is light, fairly wide and easy to use, I don't think you can easily hurt yourself opening/closing it like others (e.g. the WeatherTech folding ramp can pinch your fingers). When placed on the back of the SUV, it is sufficiently stable with reasonable incline even for old large Danes. It is surprisingly strong, more than sufficiently stable to carry my biggest dog's easily (165LB, more than I weigh). It's a well built ramp. There have been comments that the sand paper like surface (100 grit?) is hard on the dog paws. I disagree, our old dogs have no problems. A dogs paws will be ok if the dog walks on the road fairly regularly and climbs the ramp at a normal pace. But in the worst case you can always get a set of booties. Also, the rough surface will not be rough forever. The WeatherTech ramp has a rubber walking surface which is not as useful as one might think (very slippery if dogs paws are wet). Also the WeatherTech is more costly, narrower and bulkier to store (so harder to carry in vehicle which you obviously must do). I do not recommend the WeatherTech at all. Training the dog to use it not to hard if (unlike the instruction booklet author) you use your brain a bit. First step is to get the dog to walk on it when it is flat on the floor. Next, since most houses are at least somewhat elevated from the property, use the ramp as a walkway from say an elevated porch to back yard or similar. Prior to feeding the dog, put the dog outside, setup the ramp so that the dog can not avoid using it to get onto the porch and then put something tasty at the top of the ramp. The hungry dog will realize that it has to walk on the ramp to get the treat and will eventually do so (if there are two dogs then make it appear that the the second dog positioned on the porch might get the treat first). We just left our ramp in place for a day so that the dogs got accustomed to traversing the incline. Once the dog is readily coming on or off the porch, then try putting it on the car. Again use a high value treat. It helps to have two people also. Unless you have an very obedient and trusting dog, you will not likely get the dog to climb the ramp without some preconditioning/training. If you scare the dog on the first trial it may never try again. It may well take more than one day. But our big adolescent male Dane figured out and literally bounds up the ramp :). Finally if you have a really wobbly old dog or one that doesn't walk precisely, this ramp is inexpensive enough that you can use two (at least at the back of an SUV) which definitely helps such dogs. Since they store easily, two is not too bad to carry.

Edited (TWO YEARS LATER)!: Still a great ramp and holding up to my mastiff's constant use! Edited (one year later): still giving this a 5 star review! Ramp is holding well after daily use getting in and out of a Jeep. Over time I custom added a kayak handle to the opposite side of the manufactur installed handle. I found that because my jeep opens on the right side it just made it easier for me to handle it. Secondly, over time I custom added thin rubber matts that I gorilla glued to the sandpaper pads. The original textile didn't feel good on my pups paws so I had tried carpet. Turns out when it's wet from rain the carpet got slippery. So I upgraded to rubber and no slips! She's ocer 120lbs now and easily uses this ramp everyday! No joint issues and has never flipped it over. Hope this helps! Original review: This ramp is an upgrade from my last one I purchased nearly a decade ago. It is lightweight, has a handle for easy lifting, and I LOVE the sliding feature vs the fold feature like my previous one. We recently got our new fur baby and I wanted to get her trained asap on using the ramp since she is a mastiff mix and will be too heavy for me to lift. Initially she had no problem going down the ramp, but no matter how much I used treats to entice her, she wouldn't go up. I even tried a slow training method, leaving it on my living room floor and having her walk on it at her leisure. No problem. She would walk all over it. I tried doing a slight incline onto the couch, barely a foot above the ground, no go. She got about one step up, then would back up. I don't think she liked the feel on her paw pads. Anyway, quick trip to home depot, I bought stair carpet runners. (Didn't even know it was a thing but turns out it's perfect)! I grabbed 2 and they have grip on the back that stuck well to the ramp. I don't have to permanently fix it to the ramp, just throw them on and they don't move. So overall, I gave it 5 stars because I love the product, I just had to fine tweak it to suit my puppy's lackluster approach to the nonslip material. She went up, on the first moment I placed the carpet pieces on the ramp, so it's a win!

I like it...it's affordable...but could have been built better. I bought this for our 16 yr old Chesapeake Bay Retriever named Teddy Bear. He's a senior, 85+ lbs, blind, and arthritic...all of which is causing him to have a hard time getting up the back of the Tundra truck bed unassisted. Teddy initially tried using a couple 2x4s as a ramp, but this was too much for him and too difficult for us to haul the boards safely with him in the bed. The XL length size of this ramp decreases the angle from the height of the bed to the ground. The telescoping feature of this ramp allows us to easily keep the length for him to walk up easily into the bed while also collapsing to an easily managable size for hauling in the bed while secured to the bed wall with cargo straps. To get him accustomed to using the ramp, I laid the ramp over the five steps to our side entry door for about a month. That forced him to have to climb the ramp to get inside and out every day. Now, he's still a little hesitant using the ramp, but he doesn't put up a fight since he needs it to get in the truck bed...and he certainly loves every truck ride. As for the construction, it's not as durable as I had hoped. Everyone has to remember that there is no good onboard fastener that will keep this ramp in the collapsed position...it's too flimsy and will easily break with frequent use, and there is a potential of needing stitches to fingers if the ramp is not controlled to slowly open. I recommend getting a separate cargo strap to hold it in the collapsed position and slowly extending the ramp flat on the ground once the separate cargo strap is removed. Once locked in the extended open position for use, it appears secure. As for the nonskid material glued to the ramp...it's flimsy. Teddy is 85 lbs...and he has claws no one wants to trim because even the trainers are afraid of grooming him in his senility. So, the nonskid surface, being exposed to the elements for a month as well as Teddy's untrimmed claws and our pit bull's trimmed claws...well, they did a number on the nonskid covering. It's still intact...mostly. Therefore, we will go to the local hardware store for replacement nonskid paper when the original no longer provides traction. Remember that this ramp does have a weight limit of about 300 lbs. Do not attempt to walk on this with your 100+lb pet or you risk breaking the ramp with you and your pet on it...potentially hurting you both...unless you are 100 lbs yourself! My 180 lb husband initially walked on this with our 85 lb Teddy, and the ramp physically bowed in the middle with their combined weight of 265 lbs. until they got off of it. So, I recommend allowing only your pet to walk on it...after all, it is a 'pet' ramp. So do I still recommend this ramp...yes! As long as you are aware of its shortcomings and safety issues, you won't have a problem using this ramp for your large, furry family member...well, we haven't had a problem yet. It has definitely improved my Teddy Bear's quality of life at this end of his life span...don't know how much longer he'll be with us, but he's definitely enjoying his senior years with this ramp easing his mobility onto and off the truck...allowing him to enjoy truck rides safely again.

Purchased this ramp for an older greyhound. It is an excellent ramp with anti slip surface and my dog has no problem using it, it has been a life changer for both him and me. The quality of this ramp is fabulous, the only thing against it for me would be it's quite heavy but it's worth it for how good it is.

ミニチュアダックスがソファに上がれなくなり室内で使うつもりでしたが距離角度がうまくいかず庭で使っています いい感じで滑らずにあがってきます。 持ち運びできる重さなのでちょっと強い風だと飛びますので注意したほうがいいです とてもよかったです

Highly recommend

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Ich nutze die Rampe für meinen inzwischen doch recht betagten Hund und bin super begeistert. Die Rampe ist ziemlich leicht, dabei aber sehr stabil und vor allem wirklich easy im Handling! Man kann eigentlich nichts falsch machen mit ihr. Mir war eine qualitativ hochwertige Rampe wichtig, die bekommt man definitiv bei diesem Produkt. Sie ist absolut rutschfest und platzsparend zusammenschiebbar, wodurch im Auto noch genug Platz für andere Dinge bleibt. Meines Erachtens ist sie jeden Cent wert und ich würde sie wieder kaufen. Einzige leicht negative Anmerkung: Für einen sehr großen Hund ist diese Rampe wahrscheinlich etwas zu schmal, hier würde ich die Deluxe-Variante ausprobieren. Für meinen Border Collie-Mix ist sie aber völlig ausreichend.