Dog owners!

bigcitypopo wrote:
we crate ours when we leave... bathroom, crate, cover... leave... no drama...

Our three are crate trained as well. We announce that "it's time to go" and they all get up and go to the crate. We leave for 3-4 hours and they sleep. They will start to bark when we are unlocking the door but only till they know it's us. I do leave the radio on if there are lot's of kids running around making noise, it bothers them.

Personally I would be more upset with someone who doesn't pick up after there dog/s have done there business. I always do but, it can be hard to find at times. I let my dog out in the morning tied to the picnic table by chain while I have breakfast. You'd think what he leaves behind should be easy to find but, I have had times when I have to look for it for quite awhile. It can hide in the grass and dirt. Sometimes I find it the had way by stepping in it. That's why I'm careful to pick it up. I know it's no fun to step in.

GordonThree wrote:
My point is, noise is going to happen. It's not right to focus on a single source of noise; If not barking dogs, it will be something else. It's impossible to control all the noise, unless you are very, very wealthy.

I understand and sympathize that every person has a "trigger sound" that makes the blood boil. For me it's diesels and motorcycles... man I can't wait for the hogs and rigs to start rolling into the campground up the road from my home.

Sure do ,nothing better then the rumble of a good diesel ,or motorcycle, barking dog, not even close to enjoyable.

We full-time with 4 dogs. And have never had a complaint. We make sure we take them out to go potty just before we leave, give them a treat, make sure they have plenty of water, pull the curtains open on a window or two, and leave either the tv or the radio on to drown out low-level noise. Normally notify a neighbor if we are going to be gone more than an hour or two just in case. They keep quiet as far as we know. A radio or TV on is really the key, we think.

we crate ours when we leave... bathroom, crate, cover... leave... no drama...

wbwood wrote:
Many parks don't allow you to leave the dog in the camper while you are gone. check with the park, if there is one bothering you next door like.

And to me it makes no difference if the owner is there or not. We hear a lot of dogs barking all the time with their owners there with them. To me that's more of an issue.

And yes, we have a dog.

If we can't leave th dog in the MH. WHILE WE ARE GONE,
we don't stay!

D & M wrote:
Ahhh, RV.Net's equivalent of sighting the first robin - the first dog rant. Can spring be far behind? LOL.

Yes, Spring is in the air!

That is something you take up with the campground to handle. Just the same as bad neighbors for many reasons if needed. Ours are in crates inside our MH with spray collars. They don't bark and we've never had a complaint , and we ask if there's been any barking.

Honestly this question gets beat to death about every 6 months or so.

GordonThree wrote:
Get angry with my opinion if you like, but I see it as this. If you're annoyed your camping neighbor's dog barks while the owner is off doing something, deal with it. Leave your own campsite for a while and do something yourselves, go down to the river or the lake or whatever, maybe over to the day-use picnic area. Barking dogs, screaming kids, drunken rednecks, loud diesels, loud motorcycles and the hard of hearing screaming into cell-phones, they're all annoyances that happen in communal places.

It's easy to blame a dog owner, to look down your nose and say bringing your dog is a privilege etc etc, but it's not often that simple. If other people annoy you while camping in a communal location, then it's your responsibility to go somewhere else so you're not annoyed. Get a different site in the CG, so you can be next to the guy who likes to rev his hog every few hours, or maybe next to the site with the diesel truck that idles all day long with all the noise and emissions controls removed, so it sounds like a military vehicle.

Leave your dogs at home, leave your hogs at home, leave your cellphone at home, leave the beer/booze at home, leave the kids at home, leave the monster diesel at home, it'll be an empty campground.

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My point is, noise is going to happen. It's not right to focus on a single source of noise; If not barking dogs, it will be something else. It's impossible to control all the noise, unless you are very, very wealthy.

I understand and sympathize that every person has a "trigger sound" that makes the blood boil. For me it's diesels and motorcycles... man I can't wait for the hogs and rigs to start rolling into the campground up the road from my home.