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If you’re a dog owner, would you pay up to 20% more for a fenced campsite where your dog could run free? No leashes allowed—just pure sniffing, peeing-on-everything bliss. What do you think?
You know who would pay 20% more for a fenced campsite if they could? Your dog. That’s who.
After voting in the poll below, leave a comment and tell us if you’ve ever come across a fenced campsite (or private area, not a dog park) for Fido or Fifi. We’d like to know. Thanks!
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We stayed overnight at a KOA and we reserved the spot with the private dog area as a treat for them for acting well behaved on the trip.
I travel with little ones as well so that would be a plus for dogs and kids.
We are currently at the KOA in Tucson, with a private dog area.
We use 2 portable free standing dog fences that fold up and are easy to deploy. They have a built in gate so we place them around our steps. All we need to do is open the door so the dogs can go out and do their business without needing to hook up their harness. Works best at 2:am for our Senior JR who requires a middle of the night potty trip. We do a clean up daily to keep things neat and clean.
Same here. We have 3 small dogs, so we use a 2ft fence just big enough for them to do their business in. I don’t want to walk my dogs at 5am in the morning.
The only thing good about a fenced in site is you wouldn’t have others walking through your site. We would never let our dogs off leash, fenced in or not. And, what about all the people who break the rules and don’t pick up after their pets? Our two Labrador Retrievers would spend their entire time sniffing other dogs past presence in a fenced in site. We’ll take our dogs for a nice walk to do their business, rather than leaving them loose in a fenced in site.
Why pay extra??? 1) Many dog owners simply let their furry friends run free in the parks we stay at (most every eastern state even though there are leash laws). 2) They let their dogs out at night where they crap in other peoples’ campsites – no picking up after their dogs. 3) And if you feel strongly about keeping you dog at home & cleaning up after it then dog fences are relatively inexpensive and you can take them with you to each place you visit.
We travel with our 12# Chi-Chi (her brother passed just before we headed south for the winter) and never let her roam around the park. We have a dog fence for her. When we walk her around the park she has a collar and leash.
I always kept my dog on a leash when outside. You have better control on them and can protect them from other dogs running loose in the park.
Amen for that
We do to wish everybody would
We purchased portable fencing for our dog, 2 sections each 16’ long which gave us 64 sq ft. We set it up outside the door of our TT, each section has a gate with plenty of room for us and the dog. He was happy not to be leashed and we didn’t worry about getting tangled or tripping on the line.
NO WAY sites are already too expensive!!!!!
I said no. As said, the dog would love it. It’s not just the money, I tend to avoid a lot of dog runs. We found out the hard way they are a risky area to play fetch. With a heavily used area for dogs, the risk of parasites passed between dogs increases. Even if feces are picked up, the ball rolls through grass where parasites are deposited by defecation. Once your dog picks up the ball by mouth, s/he ingests the parasite and the cycle starts over. A fenced RV site means dogs have concentrated there and (pardon the pun) infection becomes a crap shoot.
No; I wouldn’t personally, for many of the reasons already commented on by others. But I think it should be required for those who refuse to keep their dogs leashed, or confined. As a former large breed, and current small breed dog owner, we have always kept our pets on leash when in public spaces (campgrounds ARE public spaces). Even at home our dogs are not allowed to roam free (and we live in the country on 40 acres). We have a neighborhood dog, who is a regular visitor (if you consider 3 miles away being “in the neighborhood”). He’s a good dog, and it saddens me to think that its just a matter of time before he becomes roadkill.
Not only would I not pay extra, I would avoid a park like that entirely. The people that don’t properly manage their dogs now would leave them unsupervised in the pen barking all day and when they left would leave a site full of dog feces.
And are these six foot fences? Many larger breeds can easily jump right over 4′ fences.
I would not, even though we travel with a dog. Such a site would be gated, making putting the RV into it a greater production. Alternately if the patio area were fenced, then I foresee problems getting things from the storage bays, having to open and close a gate every time one goes from the RV to the patio area. As Mikhal noted, leaving the dog there opens the possibility of the dog barking at all that it sees and being extremely audible to others.
Our Whippets can easily bound any fence an RV park is likely to provide.
I would pay extra to stay at a campground with NO dogs. Sooo tired of barking, yappy dogs and their apparent brain dead, entitled owners.
I’d pay more for a fenced in campsite even without having a dog with us, just to keep people from cutting through. A lot of this is dependent upon the size of the site as well.
I would not pay extra. I also feel it would encourage owners to leave their dogs in the pen alone. If you want a dog you need to spend time with them. Walking with them makes them happy. Our dog likes to be where we are if we go in she comes with us don’t need a pen for that.