Everything Else!

Stay Where You Are

There’s nothing worse than taking your eyes off one of the boys when pitching the tent, only to find they have somehow found the nearest spot to jump into some muddy water. One of the first things we do when finding our wild-camp spots if we are trying to keep the dogs dry is use our Hi-Gear Dog Tether. Simple but effective, it allows us to focus on the tent pitching and not on the dog watching. See our post on harnesses and Bungee Leads 

Keeping Stuff Clean
A backseat travel hammock/ cover has become an essential travel piece for us as not only does it speed up the cleaning process when back home, it helps keep the boys self-contained in the back. We also stick our fold out camping chairs/ table behind the front seats, which gives us the full boot space for bigger items.  Not sure if you are meant to, but we machine wash ours every few weeks

You Can’t Eat Me

Lets face it, some dog chews STINK (looking at you pizzles)! And if you get a long lasting one, packing it away often means having a dirty, stinky chew sat in your bag! So when we camp, we take our Tasty Bone wild range with us. It includes the YAK Cheese Chew* and Venison Antler Bone* and Spencer especially loves to lay down with it and have a chew.

WetDog Wednesday

Spaniels = water, which means we often end up with soggy doggies, so we rely heavily on towels and fleeces. The first product to mention is the dressing gown towel for dogs; the DogRobe. Now this is a product that we agreed was quite expensive, but when you use it multiple times a week, it pays itself off, and has held its colour and drying ability after many washes! 

For fleeces, we (Hollie) likes to have multiple options. Theres the four-leg (Equafleece), front-legs only (Hotterdog) and our newest addition (Rydale), which is half the price, the same quality (if not better!) and has a full length zip for easy dressing, as well as high-vis tubing. We would highly recommend them! Both boys wear a size M in Rydale.

Keeping Em’ Busy

(1) What’s something bright, floaty and doesn’t get your hand covered in slobber on retrieval?...The Ruffwear Lunker Floating Throw Toy*! A great tug toy which we have used to bribe the boys during SUP’ping and trying to get the perfect loch insta shots. 

(2) Although most of our hikes result in the boys crashing in the evening, sometimes there is a bit of extra playing at the tent. For this, the Tug-e-Nuff Big Twizzler is brought out for a proper game of tug. 

* - Items gifted to us

Discount codes:

Tasty Bone - H&S20

Tug-e-Nuff - cockerspaniel_hugo