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Poll Question: Do you regularly camp with pets?
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    Posted: 05 Jan 2019 at 3:10pm
One Pomeranian and one African Gray parrot. Both love to travel and camp, and neither adds much to the rig gross weight. Mealtime the parrot travel cage just fits in the shower and tucks under the bathroom sink. At night and when not cooking her cage sits behind the stove in the corner. The Pom sleeps on the bed of course. 
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We spent 6 weeks 16 miles NW of Hot Springs Ar with one small dog and our half siamese cat.

Cat freaked out a bit the first day. Spent all day in the cat carrier in the car. Got carried into our Rpod 189, released. Within an hour he had urinated in the middle of the bed. Which prompted mom to go to walmart and buy 2 sleeping bags, which did zip together and did make a better solution.

But that was the only real problem we had with either.

Cat did end up spending nights in the carrier in the pod because when he got hungry around 4am he would jump up and walk around on my wife's face until she got up to feed him.

Dog sometimes slept with us in the bed (16 lbs but a terrible bed hog) but was mostly encouraged to sleep on the couch.

Biggest issue was finding a place to put a water dish where it did not get tripped over and spilled constantly.

We did convert our shower to a closet. Catbox, wastebasket, and litter on bottom, dirty clothes basket, odds and ends first shelf up. Mostly food above that and a few odds and ends.

On the whole, a very good experience. Cat was much less trouble than we expected, turned into a good traveler. Dog did not want to go home. He LOVED it there.
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We camp with 2 dogs. The newest, a 90+ pound lab/hound mix always liked camping but missed the couch. R Pod solved that for her.
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Originally posted by mcarter

Mistreating an animal to me is no different than mistreating a person, child or not.
 

I agree. Sometimes it's worse, because an animal can't say, 'Help me, I'm being mistreated!'
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I applaud that, people who do not have pets because of various reasons and mainly due to not mistreating them are just as important as the folks that have them and love them. Mistreating an animal to me is no different than mistreating a person, child or not.
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Beside the first set of reasons given earlier in this post the second reason why no pets is that we do a lot of hiking and biking while camping and if wouldn't be fair to any animal to leave it inside all day while we are gone all day enjoying all the beauty outside.
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We have four dachshunds; Chloe, Gretta, Penny, and Liesel. They love the pod. We wouldn't dream of going anywhere without them! (If I could post pics to this website I would.)
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Hey! There was not a "No pet" option. 

We used to have a cat (~~ 18 years), but after he went away to cat-college, we opted for no pets. Where we live now would not be a good place for a pet anyway. For me, traveling with a pet would also be a challenge. Happy it works for some of you folks though. Whenever we meet folks with pets, it's clear everyone is having a good time.
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I wanted to travel more so in 2017 I purchased the pod so we could go camping with the bulldog.  She is at home anywhere as long as she is with us.  I could count the number of times she has barked in eleven years on one hand. Great camper.
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Posts: 3419 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 01 Jan 2019 at 3:11pm
We don't try and travel with our cat, she is a adopted feral and quite independent, she has excepted the house, but is a bit unmanageable once outside. She's a sweety and takes care of the rodents around house, and has actually has been bit by a Copperhead on one occasion. We love her but better to board and travel with our English Bulldog.
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