quote]Any ideas
You might resort to outright deception.
Max despises riding, and won't even get near a car--which keeps him out of the streets.
The only reason Mom can get him in the truck is that she makes it a point to go out and sit in the camper bed and read for a while a couple of times a week. (She keeps an egg crate pad unrolled, and some pillows so it's comfortable.)
Max always goes looking for her, and is allowed to jump up and snuggle right up--even lay his head right on her pillow next to hers--which he NEVER gets to do in the house, because he's not allowed in the bedrooms. She always has his fave treats. It's his favorite snuggly time, in the truck. Sometimes he will run back and forth between her and the garage door, trying to get her to go sit in the truck.
So when she's going to take him somewhere, Mom will pack the truck while Max is out in the back yard, or while Dad takes him for a walk. Then she will let him in, and go sit in the truck and read for a little bit, while he snuggles. When he's not looking, she snaps the 3 foot lead attached to a steel hook in the bed of the truck into his collar, and there he is: STUCK. Then she puts his crate in and makes him get in it. You can imagine how he protests THAT!
But because she only does this maybe one time out of every four or five, she sits in the truck, Max doesn't have any way to know which time is going to be the ride. Every time, he gets this look of total self disgust, like, "I KNEW sooner or later this was going to happen. WHY am I such a pushover?!"
Try tempting Ranger into the car just for snuggles and treats for a while, and see if it helps?
