Difficulties with Pets and RVing
There are quite a few messages referencing pets and traveling in RV's. However, not many that advise the problems that ensue when taking a dog on a trip. We are considering purchasing a fairly small C...
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I don't have a motor home, rather a trailer, and we have 2 dogs, not as big as a lab, but still, we now have 2.
Dogs travel in the cab of the truck. They go everywhere with us. They are never left in the truck or trailer by themselves. We are VERY selective where we go, what we do, and how we do it.
We choose restaurants with outside seating so the dogs can be with us. As we are NOT indoor people and older also, and do not like the "amusement park" experience when camping, our travels are always for quiet, solitude, campfires, walking trails, nature site seeing. The dogs go everywhere we do.
If we need to go into a grocery store, one of us stays in the vehicle, the other does the shopping. We've been doing it this way for a long-long time now.
Space in the camper? We took our dog and cat with us, when our kids were still little and we started in a tent, then a pop-up. Later our first 18 foot travel trailer. We adapted, the dog (whatever one we had at the time), adapted also. No problems at all.
We had problems with only one dog in all our years. He was a rescue and had a nasty disposition about him and bolted all the time. He bolted out the camper door on us many times and we'd have to go on a mad spree to get him back. He finally mellowed after 6 or 7 years of camping and eventually turned out to be a pretty good camping dog.
Just remember, if you travel with your dog, YOU have to think like the dog. All dogs want is to be with their mommies and daddies. That's ALL that matters to them. Their world are so small, YOU are their world. When you are away from them ... their world is in shambles! To them ... quite simply ... you are God! All they want is YOU. If you are there, they don't care about anything else. They will adapt to anything.
Dogs travel in the cab of the truck. They go everywhere with us. They are never left in the truck or trailer by themselves. We are VERY selective where we go, what we do, and how we do it.
We choose restaurants with outside seating so the dogs can be with us. As we are NOT indoor people and older also, and do not like the "amusement park" experience when camping, our travels are always for quiet, solitude, campfires, walking trails, nature site seeing. The dogs go everywhere we do.
If we need to go into a grocery store, one of us stays in the vehicle, the other does the shopping. We've been doing it this way for a long-long time now.
Space in the camper? We took our dog and cat with us, when our kids were still little and we started in a tent, then a pop-up. Later our first 18 foot travel trailer. We adapted, the dog (whatever one we had at the time), adapted also. No problems at all.
We had problems with only one dog in all our years. He was a rescue and had a nasty disposition about him and bolted all the time. He bolted out the camper door on us many times and we'd have to go on a mad spree to get him back. He finally mellowed after 6 or 7 years of camping and eventually turned out to be a pretty good camping dog.
Just remember, if you travel with your dog, YOU have to think like the dog. All dogs want is to be with their mommies and daddies. That's ALL that matters to them. Their world are so small, YOU are their world. When you are away from them ... their world is in shambles! To them ... quite simply ... you are God! All they want is YOU. If you are there, they don't care about anything else. They will adapt to anything.
