K9Intruder wrote:
Beautiful pack you have. My suggestion is to gradually make a very very small fire before you go camping and do something fun father away from it, so he relates it to something positive. Do that a few days, then slowly get a little closer but keeping it FUN ALWAYS. If you see him get scared, go further away, keeping it fun. DON'T force him...he needs to gain trust in you and when he's close to smoke it'll be fun. You want his camping trip to be just as fun as yours. Always leave off on a positive note with him and the smoke/fire. Is he a rescue? Maybe he was in a house fire. Just go slow. Trust is better than tranquilizers. Best of luck!
Well, we live on 10 acres with lots of prairie grass and we are under a fire watch because we've had such a dry winter. And it's super windy here. So we probably can't test out the fire and as a matter of fact when I saw our fire warnings I figured we probably won't be able to have campfires this summer anyway. But hopefully we will in the future and I'd love to help him acclimate. He is a rescue but we got him at 3.5 mos. so he was a puppy. I thought about him being in a fire until I read about how many dogs actually have this fear.