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Hi,

My parents have two rescue greyhounds and are at this moment in France. They got them from the local Greyhound Rescue and it is through them they found a lady who fosters grey hounds and they have both gone to stay with her for 1 week, in her home, not a kennel.  My parents aren't camping, using b & b's but if they do go caravanning the dogs go too!  It's just a thought if you ever feel it's too much and I think it's a much better alternative to kennels.  Our German Shepherd hates the heat and looks proper miserable all day, but come the evening he livens up and loves a walk then.

What you could do if you know you will be going on long walks occasionally is find out about local kennels that take dogs for the day, then you will still have the dog with you around the tent.

we found this useful when we decided to go visit places where dogs were not welcome(animal friendly country my Armpit)

We recently lost our dog whilst we were camping (we went to emergency vet) although we beat ourselves up over it she died doing what she always loved, we slowed down our activities an awful lot in the last 12 months anyway with regards to her we spent more time just sitting round the campsite as she enjoyed watching the world go by rather than long hikes like she used to (we only took her on long hikes to tire her out!!)

Personally she would have died alot sooner if she had been in kennels and it was something we never contemplated and she'd never seen the inside of a kennel in her life (we used to get ex husband to dog sit). When she did come i'd always stay at the campsite whilst hubby took the daughter off not very sociable i know but we had a responsibility to the dog also. Only you know your dog best and what she'll cope with they are good at telling us they need to slow down and i'm sure at the first sign of a problem you'll do the right thing x