Camping, hounds and teens advice

[linb]

I know there are a few happy campers on here so would love your pearls of wisdom! - hopefully andywillow can share some gems!

We used to camp pre children with dogs (not hounds but collie crosses) - lots of long walks - and have camped with children but without dogs - and are now thinking of combining the two.

Is this wise!!!??!!

Children are now 12 and 13 and quite independent so that helps. Have contacted a windbreak firm to see if they can build me a windbreak that'll be secure for the dogs and fit around the tent. Hattie has such a high prey drive one whiff of a small dog would set her off.

We've tended to holiday in cottages that allow the dogs to be left which has made life easier if the children have wanted to go somewhere that didn't allow dogs, which obviously we couldn't do in tent.

Any tips gratefully received!!

[kamkay]

DON'T DO IT !!!!!!!

[greybeard]

Kay - totally agree.Haven't been away since having Jem,but in a cottage the hounds came with us when out - Cath.

[linb]

Oh dear no rush of camping enthusiasts!!!

[gvgeam]

Jul 23, 2015 5:36:34 GMT -5 linb said:

Oh dear no rush of camping enthusiasts!!!

We're caravanners, like Sue. We take Maple with us as there's just me and OH these days. When we had Buck here as a foster, he came too. We go to places where we can take her and in fact last year found plenty of places that were accepting of dogs, including a café in Laugharne, South Wales, where we had a lovely lunch. We also stopped at deli in Lynton, North Devon for an ice cream where the assistant said 'bring the dog in' and then made a huge fuss of her giving her a large slice of ham from his deli fridge!

I do understand the children/dogs dilemma though. When our 3 children were still coming with us and we had 2 dogs, the dogs went into kennels for the 2 weeks summer holiday. This was so that we could do things with the children that weren't necessarily dog friendly: we could spend a whole day at The Eden Project, Legoland or sit on a beach (not my favourite thing - ugh sand) without any worry about the dogs. Of course kennelling made our already tight budget holidays more expensive and we missed them! They always came away at other times in the caravan though, like at Easter and October half term and any weekends away.

[linb]

Thanks gvgeam -it is the child/dog dilema when the children want to do activities that are not dog friendly, like water parks etc.

Cottages are just becoming too expensive as we are also tied to school holidays so we thought camping might give us the chance to get away more for half the price.

Plan at the moment is to try a weekend and see how it goes!

[alfiemoon]

Jul 23, 2015 5:36:34 GMT -5 linb said:

Oh dear no rush of camping enthusiasts!!!

Yes to camping with hound, but no kids so not really able to help...soz!