chicken or the egg? question

Our dogs when outside. They are never out there alone. Only 2 of them mine. If we go camping, they go camping. This is per my wife. Love my dogs but would rather they were boarded. Mine are far left and far right. My dog right. Wife's left.

3oaks wrote:
Some people don't belong in a camp either. They act like animals! :E

That is definitely true, however, those people also don't belong in any civilized society.

-Michael

Our dogs camp with us, but in all honesty, I would prefer that they don't. We weekend camp about 2x a month between June and September, so our dogs don't really adjust until halfway through each weekend. It causes them a lot of stress, they fuss quite a bit, and their stress becomes my (our) stress. Kenneling is an option, albeit expensive, that we could afford but the stress level for the dogs must be astronomical in a situation like that. I always worry about their quality of life or whether proper care is provided at even the best of places whenever we must kennel. In a perfect world, we are able to find someone willing to stay at our home with the dogs while we camp. Otherwise, they're with us and we will adjust and be respectful of others at all times. Our dogs are family, our fellow campers are our neighbors, and it's up to us as pet owners to ensure peace and harmony for all in these situations.

I think people turned to pets versus socializing with other people which is sad. Then the pets

became their kids

and soon they were

showing up in stores and restaurants, in shopping carts and sitting at the table

.

X2
Description of the ultimate 'type' of a PITA pet owner.
Along with the ever increasing mentality, "my pet has rights too". :R

Yup I too RV with a dog. When I sold my house to go Full Time, I had a dog. So he went with me.

BUT

I keep to myself at CG's as I travel and I don't refer to my dog as a fur baby he is my 'dog'.

AND

I HATE when I am quietly sitting outside my MH, on my site with the dog and up comes a dog owner right ON TO my site up to my face with their dog in tow saying. "my doggie wants to meet your doggie." :S

I am NOT here to be a play date for your dog! Campers who do that STOP.

DutchmenSport wrote:
I wuv woo!.....

A face that says, "hug me" all over it!

Well, we've had dachshunds in the past, so I know that face. It says "reach down and touch me, and I'll pee"
LOL

For the most part, our dog seems to behave better at campgrounds than many of the campers...certainly better manners.

As the US population gentrifies the pet population is increasing. Place it on any psychological mechanism you'd like. How many Petco stores were in existence 10 years ago?

My little buddy is asleep in my lap right now, but that doesn't mean that I don't agree with most comments in this thread. Pro and con.
We never had pets growing up, but DW did. So..............
Anyway, these will be the last. When they pass so will that chapter of our lives. The vets are mostly crooks and we will no longer be able to afford them once we hit the social security and pension income.

DH and I travel with our (little) dog. We are often amused at the fact that it seems like the smaller the trailer, the bigger the dog! or dogs! :) cest la vie!

Actually I find most dog owners take far better care of thier pets than parents take care of thier children. Or put another way - during our holidays we have seen many more children going wild in other people's campsites than any dogs ( really no dogs I can recall). And we are not dog owners but are parents.