Camping with the pooch!

[pistolpete]

Don’t laugh we’re going camping with two dogs on Sunday in a tent for three nights! Hot water bottle is packed! Any tips? Do’s and dont’s grateful received!

 

[rara007]

Are they crate trained? Are you having them loose overnight? If so make sure you’ve a way of securing your tent shut!

 

[Annette4]

We camp with ours regularly.

Ours are crate trained so sleep in their crates with blankets over them (the pointy noses also have pj's and extra blankets in their crates) but a friend has a little mini carabiner she uses to stop the dogs opening the tent by securing the zip for both sides of the door together to prevent escapees.

Windbreakers around your tent are really handy for helping them relax/giving you some privacy/preventing reactivity. Tie out stakes are really handy so you don't need to be attached to your dog.

If you think you have enough dog towels....you don't, pack more

 

[BallyRoanBaubles]

A ‘garden’ area for dogs is useful, as I found out last weekend when I didn’t have one my youngest has never camped before but he was fine I just took his usual bed and he went straight to sleep

 

[Highmileagereindeer]

Daughter and family shut the whippet cross in the tent whilst they explored the site. Fly sheet zipped, outer door folded back. The dog sliced the fly sheet with a swipe from her claws and belted across the site to join the exploration.

 

[ArklePigInBlanket]

@Annette4 you can't casually mention your dogs pyjamas without a picture

 

[pistolpete]

Thank you. Not crate trained and pyjamas definitely being packed! Carabiner is a great idea. Last time I tried to camp she broke one of those tie up things so we will be tying to the car this time!

 

[twiggy2]

Mine always used to sleep in the car which was parked right next to the tent, they used to sleep downstairs in the house though so were npt used to being with us at night, you can hear anyone creeping round the car from a tent too.
Windbreaks are a great addition just so the dogs are not seeing everythubg on the campsite and it helps them relax.
The lurcher and collie that have come back packing aince then sleep in the tent although if its hot the collie chooses to sleep outside

 

[Annette4]

If you insist

@Annette4 you can't casually mention your dogs pyjamas without a picture

If you insist Fizz has quite the collection but the unicorn ones are the thickest so are our go to for camping. Dobby isn't actually that bothered so tends to wear them got drying off post swimming or if it drops particularly cold.

 

[pistolpete]

Megs pink pyjamas

 

[paisley]

Not all pointy nosed people love camping

 

[Smitty]

I can't see the point in paying for one of those twirly things for tying a dog to. I belt a tent peg into the ground, trapping a circle of string in the head and tie dog to that. Always works brilliantly.

If it looks as though it might be under 12° at night I take my working bred terrier a sleeping bag to get into as whatever is on his bed or he is wearing, he will end up shivering and trying to get in with me.

 

[pistolpete]

It’s gonna be freezing! Fleece pyjamas for me and the dog!

 

[paisley]

If you don’t already do this, put a extra duvet/thick blanket on top of your camp bed to sleep on as well as sleeping bag. It makes life a lot less cold and draughty!

 

[pistolpete]

If you don’t already do this, put an extra duvet/thick blanket on top of your camp bed to sleep on as well as sleeping bag. It makes life a lot less cold and draughty!

Planning on being in a duvet sandwich!

 

[Smitty]

Thought of you last night, it was cold!! I think this was August a couple of years ago, my sister said it looked like a stuffed toy . He doesn't like the cold, bless him...

 

[pistolpete]

We go tomorrow . Everything crossed it warms up a bit!

 

[pistolpete]

We survived the first night! She’s tweaked herself somehow! Never dull! Beautiful site near Henley in Thames.

 

[SilverLinings]

I hope you and the pooch have a really lovely time @pistolpete, and that the weather is kind to you.

 

[Smitty]

It's warming up. Hope you are not too cold at nights.

I am hoping to go away on Wednesday to a site with no EHU. Hope dogs carries on speaking to me...

 

[pistolpete]

We’ve had a ball. Weather has been incredible!

 

[SilverLinings]

It looks like a nice campsite, I love the fact you have a hedge around your pitch so it's sheltered and you don't have other people wandering right past your tent all the time. You seem to have picked a good few days for the weather too- have the dogs enjoyed it?

 

[pistolpete]

It looks like a nice campsite, I love the fact you have a hedge around your pitch so it's sheltered and you don't have other people wandering right past your tent all the time. You seem to have picked a good few days for the weather too- have the dogs enjoyed it?

Dogs have had a ball! They both love it! We found an enclosed field nearby and took them every day.