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bpounds
Nov 30, 2018Nomad
I think some of the concern about barking while you are gone may have to do with where you are camping. We have, as rarely as possible, camped where the neighbors were so close that a barking dog would be a real nuisance. I hesitate to even call that camping, more like parking lot squatting. But sometimes it is the only option, and I too would hesitate to leave my dog alone in that situation. She would probably hear the neighbors simply talking in a normal voice, and that might well cause a problem. So I wouldn't do that. I'm sure she would bark at those noises that she couldn't see.
This season we camped for a week in the Sierra, and this particular campground has a lot of deer wandering around the grounds. These deer were even a bit aggressive toward dogs as we walked around the grounds with her on a leash. After a couple of days, she figured out that the sound of browsing outside the camper was those deer feeding all night. We lost a bit of sleep from the dog barking for a few nights. Kinda funny now, not so funny at the wee hours.
Like most things, the situation is important and there isn't one single answer.
This season we camped for a week in the Sierra, and this particular campground has a lot of deer wandering around the grounds. These deer were even a bit aggressive toward dogs as we walked around the grounds with her on a leash. After a couple of days, she figured out that the sound of browsing outside the camper was those deer feeding all night. We lost a bit of sleep from the dog barking for a few nights. Kinda funny now, not so funny at the wee hours.
Like most things, the situation is important and there isn't one single answer.
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