Bush camping with dogs

Do you do house sitting?

NO. Not in a organized/progessional manner anyway.

I offered to do it in this post because I love dogs and they should not be a reason to not get away.

If I can help someone AND I MYSELF get away from my home for a few days it's like me getting away anyway. Does that make sense?

So I don't do house sitting but really it is not a chore anyway is it?

I've got a great place in Caulfield and I love it here. Being able to assist someone go on a trip is always a good thing.

Do you need a house looked after? Why did you ask that question?

Thanks for the offer but at this stage we are trying find away to take the dog (Dalmation) with us we had friends looking after her last, 2 weeks in the Vic Deserts and she fretted even though she was in her own place
Thanks again
Barry

lovable lol.

iMusty email me your phone number please, keen to chat.

patrol6@ozemail.com.au

Thanks for the reply I will follow it up
cheers
Barry

Hi I'm about to star my second trip around Oz with my dog (dalmation) I have never had any trouble finding the right type of accomodation for us all ( Her in Doors, me and my dog) We avoid the main holiday resorts during school holidays but most of the country towns make you most welcolme. There are numerous camping areas where you can take your dog including researves. Most of there reseaves are better kept than national parks and charge only a nominal fee. True we have never been in any national parks but what I have heard of of some have no wish to visit them ie Kakadont but I have been told that a number of them have kennels just outside the parks. So don't be afraid to take your dog. There are that many retired people travelling with their dog these days that many of the caravan proprietors realise that they are missing out on alot of money by not allowing dogs. Any rate who wants to be ripped off by staying in a caravan park. You are paying $20+ just for a bit of power and the use of their showers. We mainly use caravan parks to recharge our water supplies if no other water is available

Goodonyer Ray,

Like you, I rarely used caravan parks - except for recharge, and to refreeze the Engel. And I was travelling for a bit over 4 months.

BUT, as I was travelling alone (apart from the dog), I found that the dog had to be tied up, or on a leash wherever I camped - either for his safety (in cane toad country), or for my piece of mind where others were present. I reckon this was a bit rough on him (he'd never been tied up before), and also on me, when (as an example), he decided one morning on the edge of the Nullarbor, to clear my campsite of a flock of curious emus. He did a good job, but I didn't see him for 2 1/2 hours. Or the time at Coronation Beach when he mouthed a dead puffer fish while I was talking to another nomad, and nearly died - this without breaking the skin of the puffer. Or when I pulled in at a "rest area" on the West Coast and let the dog out for a short run, and ended up copping a load of abuse from a pommie because he reckoned there might be 1080 about, as it was part of the "baiting zone". (I had actually checked to find out when baits had last been used in the area, and was satisfied that the risk was minimal).

Hope you have a good trip - I'm still looking for a dog sitter for when I leave in July

Very Helpfull
Thanks
Barry

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