not sure if my other msg posted ... got some error messages ... so here
it is again (pardon the redundancy if both get posted)

My wife got into dog shows a few years back (just after the "Best in
Show" movie came out but I'm sure that's just a coincidence) -- we
travel all over the southwest to dogshows.

We just got an '04 Element EX last October and it really works great
with the dogs -- the crates, grooming tables, pop up tent, tables,
umbrellas, and all the other stuff that goes along with it.

The Element is VERY popular with the dogshow crowd -- primary reasons
being:
* Great "square" storage area with flat floor
* easy clean out with the rubberized "no carpeting" interior
* very good mileage
* Although all the crates and etc can be bulky, it really isnt heavy.
So the Element hauling capacity is fine.

Our dogs are small (http://www.havanese.org/ ) and we often haul four
dogs in one big crate, plus all this other junk. At the Scottsdale AZ
show, we saw a young woman with a big crate that pretty much filled the
back of her Element with two BIG Rottweilers. Looked cozy (ok, crowded)
but it worked!! And she was thrilled with her Element, and I am too!!