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Hi just a quick question,

We are going to buy a new caravan for next season, My husband and I have 3 cocker spaniels, all trained and we are responsible dog owners. W ehave camped at a few sites with the dogs and have never had any problems, infact people are brilliant and come and speak to us and see "our boys"!!!

How do people feel in general about dogs and caravans........

We wouldn't plan to leave them in the caravan alone, but would still like to be able to holiday like this with them onboard.

what do you think????

hi

we are caravanners also and have a boxer, and a schnauzer, and provided you clean up after your dogs i dont think people have a problem, we take our dogs every time and we have found alot of caravanners also have dogs too. we have just had four lovely days at woodhall spa lincolnshire and they are very dog friendly very rural and lots of woods. happy caravanning

Sadly we only have the one dog now, as Chester recently passed over. However, as a responsible dog owner you shouldnt have any problems.

Obviously being a dog owner myself, the one thing that does wind me up is a dog not being on the lead, the owner says but my dog is friendly, to which I reply, but mind isnt, so please put it on a lead! She is a rescue dog and has through her life seen some severe trauma, she is fine with us, but twitchy with other dogs!

Our dog is a big part of our lives and personally wouldnt consider putting her in kennels, it may be the best site in the world but if it doesnt accept dogs, its not for us!

Quote: Originally posted by joecroft2 on 12/8/2010

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i am not a dog owner , and most dogs are fine , but what annoys me is people who go out and leave there dog whining or barking , a dog is a pack animal ,and the owner is part of that pack , in a dogs view , so when the owner leaves the dog on its own it becomes distressed , , also these morons with these extending leads i have lost count the amount times i have nearly tripped over one , most dogs are fine its some owners

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Quote: Originally posted by hils1 on 12/8/2010

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Hi just a quick question,

We are going to buy a new caravan for next season, My husband and I have 3 cocker spaniels, all trained and we are responsible dog owners. W ehave camped at a few sites with the dogs and have never had any problems, infact people are brilliant and come and speak to us and see "our boys"!!!

How do people feel in general about dogs and caravans........

We wouldn't plan to leave them in the caravan alone, but would still like to be able to holiday like this with them onboard.

 

what do you think????

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Looking around most of the caravan sites that we frequent it would seem that a dog is almost a necessary caravanning accessory, I certainly would not consider leaving mine at home.

ive just been to CP in perth , in a friends motorhome ( who borrowed it from his parents ) , I took our 7 month old border collie and was amazed , it seemed every second caravan had a dog.

My friend was concerend about having her loose overnight in the motorhome and her cage was too big for aisle anyways , so cage went in a tent and she slept in it overnight , she seemed quite content , only a little wimpering first night ...I noticed the park was offering free "puppy tents" ..so i presume this practice is "Normal" , it felt a bit alien to me but she seems to hav come through it unscathed.

Just wondering if its common for people to keep there dog in  tent overnight

paul

I agree 100% with Andi. We too have two wee dugs and they go with us everywhere.

On site they are on extending leads and on a dog stake, but out of the way of passers by. If anyone itrips over their leads, it is because they have approached our unit.

In town, they are one a split, short lead.

On the sites we like, you are more likely to see dogs than children. Our choice.

Glad you have got some sensible anwers in there and this answers your question

Cheers  Ratty

Most campers do have dogs.  Whether it's because they have taken up camping so that they can take their dogs with them or whether they decide to get a dog because they are so accepted on sites i don't know but we have 2 dogs and mostly take them with us on holidays.  We could leave them at home with my mum and dad and did once when we were going to a theme park for dd's birthday weekend :) but prefer to take them with us when we go away.

They get all excited when we start packing the caravan and will jump in the car at the 1st oppotunity and refuse to get out in case we might be thinking of going without them lol.

We tie them up to a dog stake on site and they love being outside watching the world go by.  We do leave them in the 'van at odd times and they just settle down on the sofa's and go to sleep.  Normally we don't allow them on the sofa's so they love it lol.  We leave them in the car if we go shopping too and they just go off to sleep until we get back.  In this country we are lucky that it never gets hot enough to worry about them getting too hot in the car :(  But if it was then one of us would go shopping and the other would either wait outside with the dogs or stay back at the 'van.

You do things differently with dogs and you are limited to what days out you can do but loads of people do camp with dogs :)

Quote: Originally posted by Tunstallwood on 13/8/2010

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Our 2 JRs have been camping/caravanning since we had them (both 2 at the end of the year) they're never left on their own in the caravan we take them with us and if dogs can't go in ie: supermarket one nips in and the other stays with them. We have extending leads! Just because they extend doesn't mean you do extend them, when walking on site or roads they are locked as short leads, when we are setting up they are put at the back of the pitch on extendable where no one can trip over them, if an area is good for them to roam a bit in but not fenced in then we will extend them. They're only a bad bit of kit if not used properly much like any other piece of equipment.

Andi

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Agree 100% Would not be without the extending leads as they allow our dogs to have much more freedom and exercise whilst ensuring they don't decide to leap after a bird and land up in a fast flowing river etc etc ! I wouldn't dream of letting them off the lead out on most walks on holiday anyway, in some places it's just too risky, no matter how well trained your dog is.

Too many things are banned in this country already !