Dogs in Elk Camp

[Iveexcaped3]

I bring my dogs to my camp, I or them are not there to please you. This year I layed in bed and listened to generators, loud trucks, side x sides unloading at 4:00am, drunk guys around a fire till 11:00. “Careful who you point fingers at because 5 more are point back at you”. My dogs also alerted me at 1:00am, look outside and 2 guys were setting up camp quietly and respectful but if they didn’t hear them it easily could have been someone looking through my camp. My dogs also aren’t unattended the whole time.

[elksnout]

I bring my dogs to my camp, I or them are not there to please you. This year I layed in bed and listened to generators, loud trucks, side x sides unloading at 4:00am, drunk guys around a fire till 11:00. “Careful who you point fingers at because 5 more are point back at you”. My dogs also alerted me at 1:00am, look outside and 2 guys were setting up camp quietly and respectful but if they didn’t hear them it easily could have been someone looking through my camp. My dogs also aren’t unattended the whole time.

I'd be looking for a new place to camp.


elksnout

[Skyvalhunter]

I bring my dogs to my camp, I or them are not there to please you. This year I layed in bed and listened to generators, loud trucks, side x sides unloading at 4:00am, drunk guys around a fire till 11:00. “Careful who you point fingers at because 5 more are point back at you”. My dogs also alerted me at 1:00am, look outside and 2 guys were setting up camp quietly and respectful but if they didn’t hear them it easily could have been someone looking through my camp. My dogs also aren’t unattended the whole time.

I'd be looking for a new place to camp.


elksnout

Sounds like hes taking it personal

[Iveexcaped3]

Sounds like hes taking it personal

It’s the internet dude, nothing to take personal.

[ghosthunter]

Well I don’t take my dog to hunting camp unless it birds we are after.

But we have 15 guys in our camp. And one brings a Poodle every year now. His wife passed, so the Poodle comes. Not sure everyone likes it. And he has taken her to a stand with him some. Deer.

In elk camp we had guys bring a couple dogs. One was a lap dog. One day we were in camp mid day and one of the guys mixed dry ice in a pop bottle. The explosion sent the lap dog on the run. The old guy was real peeved. We looked and looked for that dog couldn’t find it. After hours the old guy went to his tent and set on his cot.

Heard a yelp. Dawn dog was inthe bottom of his sleeping bag.

At deer this year we had three trailers camped about 100 yards away. They had a black lab which visited us every day. We liked the dog better than their generators running at night.

In this photo, there is my sons dog visiting one day, The poodle, and the black dog from the camp next to us.

[salmosalar]

The only way I would bring a dog to camp is if I had someone there all day to be with the animal.

This year I had 2 elk camps. Both were at private "hipcamp" locations. Both times we were alone. All other elk camps have been in locations where we had no neighbors. If I brought a non-hunter to a remote camp, I could see the benefit of a dog for them. I live with non-hunting, non-gun people so I could see where having the dog may make the camping more enjoyable for one of my ladies and make them feel safer.

I only recently took up elk hunting. Before that, I camped and fished for steelhead in the fall and spring. I have taken a dog to steelhead camp before. She was with me when I got in the boat in the AM and that dog was pretty much perfectly behaved. I would not likely take her successor. He is not nearly as well behaved or as comfortable in dangerous places like boats and rivers. Part of that is that I have not taken him to the river much because the runs are down everywhere.

I never took a dog to Skeena when I went up. I was told that the Canadians frowned upon it. Manners and thoughtfulness was always something that I appreciated about Canadian steelheaders so I never wanted to rock that boat.

I think this whole discussion comes down to manners and thoughtfulness. There is no rule so I would default to asking myself if he dog is going to interfere with someone else's good time.

[dvolmer]

I know I will take a ton a flack for this but here it comes, If you are a serious elk hunter, and i'm talking about the guy that gets up before the crack of dawn and hunts all day until 1/2 hour past sunset, then there is absolutely no place for a dog in elk camp.  If you are the guy that treats elk hunting as a late camping trip with a few hikes here and there then I guess I could see if for some.  I wouldn't allow or want a dog in my elk camp.  Now bird hunting is a total different story.  Just my stand on the whole thing.  Everyone has to have there own.