Yappy Dogs and Campsite etiquette

mcarter, your English Bulldog sounds just like our Henry!

I have approached my neighbors when they return with something like "I'm sure your doggie will be glad you're home. I think you'd like to know that he barked ALL the while you were gone. If you're not here, how could you know unless someone tells you?" Friends have had success with keeping their dog inside, shades drawn, air on and radio on.

Some friends of ours took their dog camping, and left it in the camper while they were gone for the day.  When they returned, they were asked to leave and not come back!

I have a bark collar I use in hotels if I need to leave for more than an hour. My Doberman has gotten better since we travel a lot but I still put the collar on when I’m gone. I think it was about $25,highly recommended for anybody concerned about leaving their dog in the camper.

On our recent RPod trip one of the RVs had 5 small dogs (someone else counted 7, but there were at least 5). They were inside most of the day and all of them watched out the front window and barked in unison every time a vehicle, people or other dogs walked by. Which was pretty much all day long. It seemed there was someone in the RV with them at least some of the time. It was also obvious the people were there for work reasons, based on one of them leaving every morning and returning hours later. To my knowledge no one complained about them (we didn't). Probably because it was obvious they were there for job reasons (not working in the campground, but likely in the nearby town). Their RV muffled the barking enough that it wasn't awful, even though we were outside most of the time. If they had been 5 or 7 German shepherds barking instead someone might have spoken to the rangers