And you're not driving lol

Our car is pretty small so we are thinking that for any trips, I'll sit in the back with LO and the dog will ride shotgun with his seatbelt harness. In the past, he's had a car kennel in the backseat that buckled in but there won't be room for that and the carseat and I wouldn't really want him that close to LO. He has broken out of the car kennel before! My dog is a little Houdini!