Yet Another Cycling Forum
Random Musings => Miscellany => Where The Wild Things Are => Topic started by: Dibdib on 29 April, 2016, 10:06:54 am
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So I'm taking Blu to Dartmoor for a couple of nights over the long bank holiday weekend, along with mum, sister, sis's boyfriend and their dog.
Apart from the obvious (keep him warm, fed, watered and emptied regularly) does anyone have any tips for making his first camping experience a happy one?
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Never taken my dog camping but as long as you stick to the obvious if he's anything like ours the excitement of being in a new place will be more than enough!
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Repeatedly asking them "Who's a good boy then?" whilst roughly rubbing their head seems to make them happy.
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For our Tilley we need...
Lots of towels for muddy paws and to protect sleeping bags
A secure harness to prevent her buggering off after bunnies.. When camping she's always on intensive bunny watch.
A ground anchor and long line so she can potter about securely
Ways of distracting her when in the tent and she hears interesting sounds and tries to dig her way out of the sides... Moos baas tweets bunnies etc
Moar towels!
Tick remover, to be employed several times a day if in the Lake District
It's great fun, camping with a dog. Does Blu get on with the other dog going?
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Repeatedly asking them "Who's a good boy then?" whilst roughly rubbing their head seems to make them happy.
It's an existential question for dogs.
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Wot Peli said.
We used to go camping regularly with our collie/springer cross, with no real issues. She used to guard the tent if we went away to do the washing up or whatever, and severely frightened some friendly Nederlanders who wanted to give her a bone from their food, while we were down the other end of the campsite. When she was told to "guard it" she took her responsibilities very seriously. She slept on the other side of the 6 man tent from us two, and would wander over to say hello in the morning, if one of us looked at her. I do think its only workable with a well behaved dog though, the thought of camping with some of the uncontrolled idiot hounds I see about would be terrifying.
We did once go on holiday to Bala, and had to give up as it was so wet we had to take her out in the car every day with the heating on full tilt, to dry her out. That said, pretty well every time we cross the Welsh border, the heavens open.
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Spend a night at The Barge Inn (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=91360.msg1917833#msg1917833) - preferably in a cheap tent - studying what the dog owners do. Then do the opposite.
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For our Tilley we need...
Lots of towels for muddy paws and to protect sleeping bags
A secure harness to prevent her buggering off after bunnies.. When camping she's always on intensive bunny watch.
A ground anchor and long line so she can potter about securely
Ways of distracting her when in the tent and she hears interesting sounds and tries to dig her way out of the sides... Moos baas tweets bunnies etc
Moar towels!
Tick remover, to be employed several times a day if in the Lake District
It's great fun, camping with a dog. Does Blu get on with the other dog going?
Yup, got towels and a ground anchor :) he's pretty chilled about noises too, which is promising.
Blu has met Rufus a couple of times and they won't be on top of each other - we've got a camping pitch with a big tent (me and Blu in one half, mum in the other) and also a little hut (sister, her bf and Rufus). I'm really hopeful he'll enjoy it!
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A little update - Blu loved camping, and even stayed put in his bed (ground, dog bed, dog, sleeping bag) all night. Didn't try to get muddy paws on my nice clean sleeping bag except once, didn't try to burrow out of the tent.
:thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Wot Peli said.
We used to go camping regularly with our collie/springer cross, with no real issues. She used to guard the tent if we went away to do the washing up or whatever, and severely frightened some friendly Nederlanders who wanted to give her a bone from their food, while we were down the other end of the campsite. When she was told to "guard it" she took her responsibilities very seriously. She slept on the other side of the 6 man tent from us two, and would wander over to say hello in the morning, if one of us looked at her. I do think its only workable with a well behaved dog though, the thought of camping with some of the uncontrolled idiot hounds I see about would be terrifying.
We did once go on holiday to Bala, and had to give up as it was so wet we had to take her out in the car every day with the heating on full tilt, to dry her out. That said, pretty well every time we cross the Welsh border, the heavens open.
Stop leaving Wales, then!