safe guarding pet food
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Topic: safe guarding pet food
Posted By: Larry158
Subject: safe guarding pet food
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2014 at 7:37am
| Any suggestions out there for where to keep dog food while podding with pets as I am concerned with bear problems. I live in the Adirondack mountains and during the summer months if you leave food in your vehicle you will soon be out shopping for a new vehicle. |
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Posted By: hogone
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2014 at 8:52am
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just curious, where do you keep all your other food? hogone ------------- Jon & Pam 2013 RP177 2010 F150 2017 HD Streetglide 2009 HD Lowrider CHEESEHEAD |
Posted By: Larry158
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2014 at 9:23am
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AS a newbie have not figured that out. We can stop & buy a limited amount of food but we need to carry the dog food with us as we have two 70 lb dogs with a big appetite. thanks.
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Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2014 at 9:48am
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There are multiple "bear-proof" solutions for backpackers. I have one of the hard-sided solutions but can't remember the name of it right now. Fill it up with food and smelly toiletries and then leave it somewhere away from camp. A downside to all of them is a bear can carry or roll them somewhere else. The soft-sided solutions can leave you with crumbs and crushed cans. They would invite theft by humans in a standard campground. However, it would keep the bears out of your TV or pod. ------------- Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723 - Pod instruction manual 
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Posted By: hogone
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2014 at 11:43am
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all the years i spent backpacking/canoeing in bear country (northern minnesota), we hung our food in a trees. hogone ------------- Jon & Pam 2013 RP177 2010 F150 2017 HD Streetglide 2009 HD Lowrider CHEESEHEAD |
Posted By: techntrek
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2014 at 1:19pm
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I did too, until the morning a bear somehow untied our bag (no damage to the line). Luckily for our group it was the last morning so it was just a hungry hike out to the cars. After that I bought a canister. ------------- Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ http://www.rpod-owners.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=1723 - Pod instruction manual
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Posted By: hogone
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2014 at 1:35pm
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smart bears!!, the ones in Minnesota not so much!! ------------- Jon & Pam 2013 RP177 2010 F150 2017 HD Streetglide 2009 HD Lowrider CHEESEHEAD |
Posted By: Outbound
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2014 at 3:30pm
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If its that much of a problem that bears will break into a closed camper, then your only solution is a bear-box (provided by the campground and installed onsite) or slinging your food on a rope over a tree - 15'-20' in the air, at least 5' down from the branch, and preferably at least 100' from your campsite, with an easy escape path into the woods for the bear. Don't forget that your BBQ will also be a target, so store that well out of the way as well. Again, 100' from your campsite in a spot that the bear will have an easy escape path. The last thing you want to do is startle a bear who's just sniffing around and have him feel trapped. Oh, and don't forget to hang your toiletries - toothpaste especially, but all soaps and shaving foam and such. When backpacking, I generally hang the food bag about 200' away from the tent. All the same, I've been woken in the night by a black bear snuffling around the tent and my german shepherd (beside me in the tent) growling. But, frankly, rely on advice from the campground as far as food storage; they'll know best. ------------- Craig :: 2009 RP171 towed by a 2017 F150 |
Posted By: hogone
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2014 at 3:31pm
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larry158: another curious question? what are all the other campers doing and/or using for food storage? obviously there is a risk with everything, but i would just keep it in the pod. if a bear tries getting in, just wrestle with him!! hogone ------------- Jon & Pam 2013 RP177 2010 F150 2017 HD Streetglide 2009 HD Lowrider CHEESEHEAD |
Posted By: Larry158
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2014 at 5:03pm
| Thank you all for suggestons. Still learning and anxious to begin podding in the early spring. Hogone you do have a great sense of humor..Thank you. |
Posted By: Budward
Date Posted: 24 Oct 2014 at 6:59pm
Funny you mentioned a bear carrying or rolling a bear proof container- at my camp I have a 55 gallon steel drum for trash, when we leave we seal the steel top on with a band that is bolted on. Went there earlier this summer and could not find my trash drum!  Finally spotted it a hundred yards away in the woods! Still sealed. It is still there- this is some rugged terrain and I'm going to need help to get it back  ------------- 2014 179 Towed by a 2015 Ford Transit Diesel Supervised by a German/Aussie mix and a Labradoodle! |