what is a good tent to use if you have 2 whippets thinking of taking them with us not got a tent yet any other good things to take camping if you take you dogs

Try these places for loads of info on camping, buying equipment and camping WITH DOGS :D :D   We're doing the same this year and need all the help we can get ;)

[url=]www.campinguk.com/[/url]

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/

One thing I've learned so far is that whatever tent you buy, you should get much larger than you think you need as the manufacturers always exaggerate how many the tent will cater for ;)  and check up on the waterproofing, some tents aren't any use in more than a light shower :rolleyes:

OK I give up, I can get one link to work - but NOT both

Here you go Dill :)

http://www.campinguk.com

You were just missing the http:// from the start of the URL ;)

We camp all the while and love it with Kez off in June for a week to shell island we have quite a large tent, two bedrooms, one for us, one for all the items I take and a living room where Kez sleeps which is large enough to cook in and sit in incase weather bad ! I have a Wynnster Model a great quality tent now in our third year.

For Kez I pack quite a lot, bed,bowls,first aid kit for dogs,towels,blankets,two leads & two collars and my top tip the number of a local vet to the site incase of any accidents.A stake to attack him to while putting the tent up and back down.

Happy camping

I dont camp we have a caravan and I have a puppy pen I use when we are all sat outside - that way my dog cant run away on sight of any others - we're not supposed to have them off a lead around the vans and I dont like to tie him to a post...

Maxine

A stake to attack him to while putting the tent up and back down 

Take it that was a typo :D :D 

Maybe its a vampire dog !! :D :D

OPPPPSSSS Don't I sound like the awful owner yep I attach him to the stake rather than attack him with it LOL :rolleyes:

Wicked!

Don't know where you intend them sleeping, but don't underestimate the ability of a dog to get out UNDER a tent where it's pegged down. I've chased bigger dogs than Whippets round a campsite at silly o'clock in the morning when they've discovered this.

M.

I took the rabbit crate with me.
A Crate that would fit a great dane!!!! And a smaller crate for Beano, but they both ended up sleeping in the same crate LOL
Worked out great. Didnt have to worry about where they were at night. If I needed to nip to the shops I left them in it #(There was a group of us that were staying on the same campsite so they were safe.
Throughly recommend using a crate as long as they are used to one :)
Lea :)

Yep, us too after the first time!

M.

but don't underestimate the ability of a dog to get out UNDER a tent where it's pegged down

:D :D Or a small child either :)  We take a long line with us and one of those corkscrew type pegs that have a rotating ring on them to use during the day, and a crate for use at night (for the dog not a small child :D )

Had vision of your poor small child being attatched to a corkscrew by a long line!!!! now actually, that moght be a good thing ;)
Lea :)

It was many moons ago that the small child was small :D We were at a small campsite, luckily totally enclosed and very safe for children and he spent his whole time escaping under the side of the tent - dog was great, son was a nightmare

i take a puppy pen and put the little dogs in it, the big dogs they know to stay behind the windbreaks that we put up around  the tent or caravan, i also carry the orange barrier fencing with me and put that up as well, so the dogs have their own little garden as we call it, but they will escape sometimes you just have to make sure you watch them.
carolann

i think the whippets wil get out under the tent once they know there are rabbits about!!!!

The experience I have is Kez wakes up at the crack of dawn when camping :rolleyes: about 4.30 to 5.00 he hears the birds and the sun rising and thinks it is time to get up I am then walking around the camp site in PJ's for him to go wee wee then back to bed for an hour or two! we have a ground sheet sewen in, never mind Kez getting out last year we had a black lab come in to us and wake us up in the early hours owners did not even notice she had gone Kez was in his elelment

That can be avoided by buying a tent with a sewn-in groundsheet. :)

yep I was going to mention that..some tents just have the bedrooms groundsheets sewn in but now days some have the whole inside area as a sew in groundsheet. Mine is like that and it helps keep spiders out too.

Dog show people use that builders fencing around the tent too to make a garden area. I've never done that but it looks a good idea.

We've just invested in a much bigger one that has 2rooms - the idea being that Roxy'll have somewhere else to stay as last year we used a three man one. I thought it was going to be a major stress and squash, but I absolutely loved it. She sleeps away from us at night at home, but camping gives me an excuse to have her sleep at the bottom of our  sleeping bags, and every morning she'd shuffle up to put her head next to my pillow.

I absolutely loved taking her, snuggling up round the campfire in the evening and going for walks in the afternoon. Going to do it loads this year. (and she'll be sleeping in with us irrespective of how big our new tent is!)

we bought a tent  with 2 rooms and yes, he escaped under it in his section, and hes a big dog, but the call of the hog roast was too great. So he had to come in our bit which had an attached floor and i can tell you i never knew how much he farted till i spent the night in a small plastic room with him(dog not other half!)

it was good fun though

LOL!

You're all actually making me want to go camping again, haven't been for a fair while. It is great fun, perhaps that'll be this year's holiday, as house extension has eaten all our money.

M.

well thanks for your tipsbeen out and brought a dog thing that goes in the ground thought they be happy on this.