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Ok, don't normally take dogs with us but we are staying local next weekend. What do people use to secure dogs up, i thought about using a length of the plastic coated dog tether cable looped around the car alloy wheels spoke then attached to dogs collar. Or are the dog stakes any good to use, spiral type (got boxers). Or the rather nifty looking Delta dog tethers?

Quote: Originally posted by rochford6 on 21/5/2011

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we sometimes use the spiral metal spikes, never had a problem with our lab.

only problem was that he tended to get tangled up with it so last few times i have just put two deltas in to the ground and tied his long lead round it. the deltas sit flush on the ground so nowhere for his lead to get tangled up on.

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Very interested in this thread, we had two dogs with us for the first time last year.

We have a corkscrew thingy which we used for one end of a run line & the other was on the hitch on the car. The young dog ( staffy X) would suddenly lunge ( playfully) towards some one or something, one time the screw was pulled clear out of the ground & at other times the leads from her to the run line where broken.  Now this year we are hoping she will have calmed down a bit !  plus we have been training her more, she is just so friendly & playful that she is a bit of a handle full sometimes. She is not a big dog but the shock loading on the lines must be pretty high.  So going to look out for these delta pegs & give them a go.

Suzi

Have to say I recently voted the spiral dog stakes as my "most useless bit of camping equipment"!!!  It does obviously depend on the ground but our experience has been either the ground is so hard you can't get the spiral in or else its too soft/sandy the stake flies out at the first tug!

As a cheap alternative we just hammer in some of the very heavy duty storm strap pegs to below ground level so their actual tethers can go 360degrees without getting tied up.

Trish XxxX