Dog owners!

When we go camping, our dog stays with us 24/7. If we happen to leave to go eat (which is extremely rare) he rides with us. He is NEVER left alone - at any time or any place. He's a great dog too, he listens and minds well. He likes it that way, and so do we. We under no circumstances EVER leave our dog at the camp by himself.

Old-Biscuit wrote:
What do dog owners do when their dog bark while they are gone.........

You take the dog with you when you go somewhere
Only one person goes, one stays with dog and keep them quiet
OR you leave the dog home.

Other folks shouldn't have to put up with your barking dog while you are off enjoying your self.
It's your dog and you should be the one inconvenienced.

Until you train your dog to not bark while being left alone it's wrong to subject others to the constant yap,yap,yap or woof,woof,woof

Park your RV at home and train the dog OR go boondocking far away from others

X2....worse I've seen was people left their camp site to go eat, I guess??? Left the dog outside in one of those eye appealing fenced in "thing" they set up, chained up and the dog barked until they got back....2 HRS LATER.....I had a TT then, while they were gone and no one did anything about it, we moved to another site...I felt sorry for the dog to have to belong to an owner who left the dog that way...pathetic to say the least.

There is too much whining on this thread. I have two dogs that I camp with and on occasion they will bark while they are in the MH. This is expecially so if someone is banging on the door. In the 30 years I've been RVing I can only think of a couple of times where a dog was "barking incessantly". To be honest with you I felt sorry for the dog. If someone has an issue like some of the whiners here I would be sure to walk my dog right by their site. I would pick up after the dog of course, because after all...I am a good dog owner.

bigred1cav wrote:

Mickeyfan0805 wrote:
Just jumping into this thread, and haven't read it all, but...

Last year was our first year camping with our dog. We were actually very up front with our neighbors and asked them if they had heard the dog. Our dog generally doesn't bark, but camping was new to him and we knew we wouldn't necessarily know if he had. The last thing we wanted was for him to be bothering the other campers, so we asked.

If he had been barking, we would have left him elsewhere or stayed in the campground. The notion that people should have to deal with another person's incessantly barking dog is profoundly inconsiderate and absurd!

The notion that people should have to deal with another person's incessantly barking dog is profoundly inconsiderate and absurd!

Is putting up with others drunken parties or NASCAR noise a problem for you?

I just go over and join the party myself.

Mickeyfan0805 wrote:
Just jumping into this thread, and haven't read it all, but...

Last year was our first year camping with our dog. We were actually very up front with our neighbors and asked them if they had heard the dog. Our dog generally doesn't bark, but camping was new to him and we knew we wouldn't necessarily know if he had. The last thing we wanted was for him to be bothering the other campers, so we asked.

If he had been barking, we would have left him elsewhere or stayed in the campground. The notion that people should have to deal with another person's incessantly barking dog is profoundly inconsiderate and absurd!

The notion that people should have to deal with another person's incessantly barking dog is profoundly inconsiderate and absurd!

Is putting up with others drunken parties or NASCAR noise a problem for you?

Just jumping into this thread, and haven't read it all, but...

Last year was our first year camping with our dog. We were actually very up front with our neighbors and asked them if they had heard the dog. Our dog generally doesn't bark, but camping was new to him and we knew we wouldn't necessarily know if he had. The last thing we wanted was for him to be bothering the other campers, so we asked.

If he had been barking, we would have left him elsewhere or stayed in the campground. The notion that people should have to deal with another person's incessantly barking dog is profoundly inconsiderate and absurd!

Another thing that I've forgotten to add to my posts is that if I leave the dog in the Travel Trailer I pull the shades down. It makes it nice and dark in there which the dog likes for sleeping and it keeps the dog from looking out, or people looking in ,and disturbing the dog.

Heck, after dark if me and a girlfriend want privacy in the TT. I just put the dog in the pickup. He's purty much grown up in there and thinks of it like his house. Again, since this is the way he has always been raised since he was weaned there is never a problem.

bonefish wrote:
Barking will happen no matter how trained the dog is

I think you have that backwards. It's possible to train dogs not to bark.

We have been mostly fortunate when camping around dog owners. Their courtesy included standing at the edge of the site, waiting for us to come to them instead of bringing their dog into our sitting/cooking/personal space.

Bottom line, MOST of the folks with pets are very aware of others' feelings and quite courteous.

But it's the 1%-ERS who are rude or even unsafe who get the headlines and everyone else has to bear the hostility.

I recommend we remember that when reading of dog owner stories. They are isolated events, often in the worst examples of courtesy and have no more to do with other dog campers than we all have to do with the meth-heads playing Breaking Bad in the woods ;)

I am sure ours bark if someone walks by the camper. Most of the time they are walking a dog too! We try to take our 3 with us if it is an all day outting. In the summer I will not leave them in case the power goes out, it can really hot in a camper. For short trips to the store or eat out they stay behind and I will take them for a walk before we head out. Barking will happen no matter how trained the dog is, what I do not like are dogs not tied up at the campground private, COE or state owned.

Sharon