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dog mess has been mentioned on this and other threads as a reason for campsites to charge for dogs.........well I just dont buy it, I have seen dog mess on campsites but I have never seen any evidence of campsites paying some one to clean it up, and at £5 a night I would be wanting some one to clean up after my dogs for me.

We dont charge for Children or Dogs - they are part of the family.

We do however ask owners to clear up after their dogs (or children! LOL)

Personally i have never been on a park that charges for dogs as i really think its going over the top.

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/sites/reviews.asp?revid=1013

I am going to get lynched but here goes. Sadly I am an ex dog owner of the most wonderful dog, a collie cross, so I feel it is fair for me to comment.

I do think it is fair that dogs are charged for because the reality is that although everybody claims to clear up doggy mess, there is a significant large minority that do not.  £5.00 a night though seems unreasonable.

All dog owners claim that their dogs are well behaved but they often very clearly are not.  My dear late mother inlaws dogs being a case in point... nightmare.  I have had the sausages nicked by a campsite dog and the owner complained to me about the danger that his poor pouch was put into because he could have burnt his nose, was cooking on a small barbecue on the ground you see, and turned my back for a second.

Please if you have a dog take the rose tinted specs off and look realistically at his behaviour what is sweet to you might be a pain to some of us. Sorry but when a dog marks the tent with his scent this is rather annoying, the car I can cope with it comes off in the car wash better, so he is free to pee on the tyres but not the tent.  Tie them up on the campsite unless you can be sure they are going to stay put and not raid other peoples larders.  Finally Please oh please clear up the turds and do remember that goes for fields too... sheep suffer from dreadful illnesses from dogs poo not just people. 

Incidently I think it is really sad that dogs have had to be banned from beaches but you can understand why....

Well Tent_Peg, what can I say except that it's not only wandering pooches who nick your sausages off the barbie - believe me!! lol!

Even though we don't take our beloved wooffles away in the caravan with us, I'm wondering how on earth any folk who do would let their beloved pooches roam off the lead on a campsite to get near your sausages anyway! I'd be totally paranoid that somebody might want to swipe one or both of mine, (dogs not sausages), because I love 'em to bits and as they're totally adorable, many others do to! And while it's all well and good having them microchipped as mine are, you've got to find them before you can claim ownership.

As for the leg cocking on tents/awnings, I can appreciate how frustrating it must be particularly when trying to get rid of the whiff to prevent other hounds from following suit on the same spot BUT yet again, if we keep our pooches on leads, (or those screw in the ground things at our pitches making sure they can only reach to the boundaries of it), then this should not happen. I know if I'm out with my 'boys' I watch where they want to cock their legs and would pull them away from anything unsuitable before it's too late, (passers by legs especially).

Poop scooping goes without saying, is essential and if we who are responsible,(and realistic), dog owners carry on to behave as such, maybe all the rest will cotton on and do the same? Well, we can dream....

Btw, Ang/Ken if that's pictures of your site on your gallery, it looks lovely Would definitely consider that for a visit if down that way.

I am with you on this one HippyChick, when away our dog is always on a tie out kit and when not on the tie out she is on her lead, we also worry about her wondering off or being taken, Gems breed (Staffordshire Bull Terrier) are one of the most stolen dogs in Britain so she is never left to wonder a camp site, she is not even allowed out without us at home, whilst on a camp site we treat it like our home, we clear all doggy doo's up at home and we ensure we do the same whilst away.

Gillian

Having thought about this some more, I think that what £5 a night for a dog is saying is that your dog is not welcome but will be tolerated if you are prepared to pay through the nose for it.

I will pay a reasonable amount per night to take our dog with us (dog walks have to be maintained and poo bins emptied)  but I try to make sure thet we only go to sites where dogs are welcome and not just allowed. We also seem to have missed, luckily, any of these sites where dogs are roaming wild, stealing food, p!ssing on the tents and leaving great steaming mounds of poo all over the pitches - phew! Sounds revolting. MT

Take you point about the two legged variety of sausage theft, hippy chick....

Acutually at the time I thought it was quite funny ..... this did me no good as the dog owner was absolutely furious with me for goodness sake.  It was one of those surreal moments you cannot believe really happened......I really thought I was going to be clocked!!!

Am wondering if Merry Terrier has a Terrier of some sort... always been a fan of the terrier breed. Real personalities.

Terriers are certainly cute, but then I love most breeds of pooch. Ours are two mini schnauzers, (the ones who look like little old men with their beards and bushy eyebrows - or is that hubby I'm looking at - lol! Nope, he's out!), and we love 'em to bits.

Having never taken them in the van though for hols, (only experience they've had in one is when our old one was stored on the front and they'd come in there with me when I was cleaning and packing), and with them at ages 13 and 5 it's a bit much to expect them to be able to suddenly become carapooches bless 'em! Could just imagine the racket the younger one would make every time he spotted a passer by outside - we would NOT be poplular methinks.... So, as much as we miss them when we're away, far fairer to them to leave them at the Granny Motel to get spoilt rotten and have their little legs walked down to stumps! My Mum loves her walks: and the dogs don't even mind taking her - lol!

Gillian ......You are being ripped off

I think I would print off these replies and pop them in the post to the site.....they might just change their rates if they saw that almost 50.000 members have the opportunity to discuss on this forum  what their charge for dogs  is .  

Quote: Originally posted by walker family on 06/08/2005

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I am with you on this one HippyChick, when away our dog is always on a tie out kit and when not on the tie out she is on her lead, we also worry about her wondering off or being taken, Gems breed (Staffordshire Bull Terrier) are one of the most stolen dogs in Britain so she is never left to wonder a camp site, she is not even allowed out without us at home, whilst on a camp site we treat it like our home, we clear all doggy doo's up at home and we ensure we do the same whilst away.

Gillian

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we are the same with our staffie

suzanne

Post last edited on 06/08/2005 15:32:21

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I think that the owners of this site would prefer not to take dogs but haven't actually 'come out' and banned them.  Charging a large amount for dogs acts as a deterrent and it probably works because not many people will pay £5.00 a night for a dog.

I bet they don't get many dogs on their site.

Personally, I would prefer them to ban dogs rather than charge an exorbitant amount.  At least those people who don't like dogs (and there are some I believe) know where they stand on a dog free site.