hiking with dogs

[rich5665]

Don't remember which forum I saw it on; it may have been Bushcraftusa.com or backpacking.net. One of the members made a small hammock for his dog, he hung the doggie hammock under his own hammock. This accomplishes a few things.
1: keeps the dog off the cold ground
2: keeps the dog close to you
3: offers the dog a bit of shelter from any bad weather that might roll in.

[Bhag]

Kaia is my 2 yr, 70lb+ Black Lab. i carry a cut down poncho liner for her to sleep and rest on. at nite she sleeps in my hammock. if it goes above 50 she sometimes jumps to the ground. i have a 140" by 59" 1.9 sil-nylon DIY hammock. i use full length quilts when she is with me. my tarp is 8'8" by 11' cuben tarp. i hang 12" off ground. she has 40 nites hammocking on trails and 350 mi's of hiking under her collar.

Sounds like an interesting sight Kayak Karl, wouldn't happen to have a picture of the pup in the hammock eh? I gave up on the prospects of getting my dog in the hammock after one try.

I was mostly a shelter bum on my thru, but switched between a hammock and just a tarp based on temperatures. Sleeping under the hammock works pretty well. Just be prepared to go to the ground with them if it will be too cold. My dog has short dobie fur, so I found myself doing this enough to warrant just mailing the hammock home after a while.

[JohnEbner]

My dog sleeps almost always winds up sleeping in the tent with me. She stays "on guard" all night. She'll stay outside the tent if I don't let her in but she is constantly alerting to noises. About the only way she'll get any sleep is if I let her in the tent with me and even then she doesn't get much sleep. I wouldn't even think about taking her if I didn't have some type of shelter for her.

[Don H]

You could bring a PUP tent

(sorry, couldn't resist)

[BerryJes]

Hiking with your doggy is one of the collest thing to do,..

[sheepdog]

I hang my hammock just above the ground. the dog lays on a sleeping pad next to me.

[Highpointbound]

I hang a hammock and leash Grace to one of the trees I'm tied to. She has cover if she wants it but she usually prefers to lie on the ground in the open. btw Grace is 111lb Newf. How comfortable your dog is will depend on the breed...

Good post.

[rocketsocks]

You could bring a PUP tent

(sorry, couldn't resist)

Though small,how cool are those little display tents at like dicks,or sears,for small dog of coarse.Too cool.

[Longfan]

As I have not over night hiked can't say;but on the camping trip we did first of the month the dogs slept in the tent. One is a terrior mix which spent first night in her crate the second at the foot of my wife's "bed" and the other is a lab mix that slept both nights between us on the tent floor. When I hike I will take the tent my son and his friend slept in and the lab and I should be fine.