If your dog rides well in the back seat of your car or even on the front seat next to you, and you enjoy having him there and wish to take him to the shows that way, you will find at least nine tenths of the exhibitors doing it the same way.
However, the NRC tells us that the research information that is presented to them has been limited, is not complete with many nutrients and life stages, and that much of this information is over thirty years old.