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Is Camping With A Dog Worth The Trip?
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May 22, 2024
Simon shares some tips and tricks for camping with a dog in all weather, including one tip you won't want to miss out on for safe hands-off roaming of the entire campsite! 50 Feet of Paracord - https://amzn.to/3gFQ0es In this video: 0:00 - What to Bring 0:52 - Dogs and Weather 1:25 - Handling Anxiety 2:57 - Muddy Dogs 4:34 - Long Leash Technique
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Hey everybody, it's Simon from Lakehead. I'm here with my old power rex. We're out here camping and I'm telling you camp with a dog
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It's pretty easy. It's not complicated. I've got one tip that's really useful for you
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To be able to make sure that your dog can roam the entire campsite safely stick around
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It's really not complicated you don't need to over complicate it You don't need to buy any extra accessories or anything like that
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Just bring all your stuff from home if your dog's used to sleeping on a bed Bring your dog bed if it has a favorite chew toy bring a chew toy. It has a ball likes to chase bring the ball
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Food and water, you know, you can bring your dog bowls from home You know, we we keep a couple plastic ones in the camper just because it's convenient
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But you really don't even need to do that You know, you don't need to have any extra special gear just for camping with the dog
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Just bring all the stuff you normally would Of course, you need to be mindful of the weather if it's hot, you know
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Make sure it's there's a shady spot or cool spot. You can see we've got our air conditioner right there and
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Sometimes you know, it's super hot during the summer We just need to go chill out in the camper for a little bit bring the dog inside
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Let him cool down Go for a swim If it's cold, you know, just be mindful that to you know
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Build a fire let the dog hang out by the fire or kick the heater on put him in the camper for a little bit
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Dogs have a lot more range than we do temperature wise Some dogs are a little high strung. You know who you are, you know who you are
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My Rex is chilled out with age. He's gotten a little more mellow. He used to be really high strung now. He's
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When he's awake and alert, you know that he's getting up there in age
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he it's not as high strong as used to be, but he's really really protective of us and
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He figures out pretty quick, you know kind of the the layout of our
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camping area That is our territory and his territory in his domain and so he figures out pretty quickly, you know
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Hey, I'm a guard dog and I need to guard this space So sometimes he gets a little little anxious, you know, and there's other dogs walking by you know
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Can you can see there's a road right behind us? There's people walking dogs. There's a trail right over here people walking dogs and
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You know, he gets a little high strung so We've got we've got a tent right here
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Let me put him in the tent for a little while. We can put him in the camper That just helps him just gives him a little cue to like hey
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Time to just come just rest a little bit If you can't get any rest when there's people walking by they can get some rest in the camper
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in the tent, obviously, you're gonna have more noises and stuff and You know if you have a really really high strung dog that might be really challenging
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Campers are obviously a lot easier. You can just throw them in the camper. You can just everything's blacked out
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You can just chill out in there for a little bit So if you've been camping a lot, you know that sometimes the weather just doesn't go in your favor and that's okay
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But when you have a dog that can be a muddy Mess so if it's raining and it's muddy
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Then do the best you can with cover, you know Awnings and tarps and pop-up tents and all that kind of stuff
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But it's almost inevitable that your dog's gonna get muddy. So what I like to do is always bring along a bunch of old towels, you know any towels it that
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Are no longer gonna be used in the house. They go in the garage I have a big stash and a couple of those end up in the camper and that's just for
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You know cleaning up any any muddy mess including the dog If you have a little just a little tiny bucket
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You could fill that up with water dunk one paw in at a time Dry them off right before you get in the camper. Of course, it helps you could see that we've got a
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You know a big kind of outdoor carpet and the front so we sweep that clean keep that clean
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it can get wet and and that way you've got a Dry place to to kind of clean up before you actually get the camper without tracking any mud inside same with the tent
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Tarp there that's a Right. There we go. We've tarp that the tarp that the tent sitting on that's bigger than the tent
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so there's kind of like a little porch little staging area so we can keep the inside the tent as
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Clean as it possibly can My Tip for setting up your campsite so the dog can go anywhere. It's pretty simple
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Just take any rope or a paracord You loop off each end
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You steal a loop in a simple overhand knot like this pull it tight and then put it around a tree
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You know the frame of the camper or anything try to get to the middle of the campsite if you can
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Loop it around in in itself pull it tight and then do the same thing with the leash with the handle of your leash and
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Then that's it. Your dog is safe and secure can go anywhere in the campsite that you can go. I
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Really hope this video helped you helped you out. Don't miss out on my essential gear for camping video. Talk to you soon
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