A SC hello!

[Vommie]

Hey all, I'm glad I found this forum! I really want to get into travel trailers. I hope this forum will help educate me so I can make a smart buy and have many years of camping fun! I need something big enough to sleep two dogs.. I have a Rhodesian ridgeback mix (110 pds) and a shepherd mix (60 pds) I might be dreaming but I think we can do it!

Thanks in advance!

Vommie

[alffink]

Hi ya Vommie

Welcome to the madness
Now with two dogs that size, you just might be the one sleeping in the side tent

Read through the threads about camping with the pets, enjoy.

[Vommie]

Thanks! I wouldn’t mind sleeping in the side tent but my dogs are big babies and need to be in the same room Thanks for the info I will read the traveling with pets thread!

[Roly Nelson]

Welcome to the forum, hope you get the info youl need. Good for you, camping with dogs. I do it all of the time. However, I suggest you opt for getting something a bit smaller, like my little 5 lb Maltese. Snuggles right into my sleeping bag, no problems. Seriously, if you plan on a teardrop, besure it is a big one. Those are some pretty big hounds you have there. Good luck on your search, and keep in touch.
Roly

[mikeschn]

Hi Vommie,

Welcome to the forum.

Lots of folks camp with their dogs, and the threads are full of good ideas...

Check here and here for example...
http://tnttt.com/viewto ... mping+dogs
http://tnttt.com/viewto ... mping+dogs

And show of your dogs in this thread...
http://tnttt.com/viewto ... mping+dogs

Mike...

[Vommie]

Thank you Thank you!

Im looking more for a travel trailer.. I love TD but I dont think it's enough room right now.. I saw a Trillium 4500 from 1978 about 3 and a half hours from me for $3500.

Thanks for all the Links! I'll be sure to post doggie pics when I can..

Love reading this forum so far! Yall have a lot of cool TD's and trailers!

I'm excited!!

[Keno]

Hi ya Vommie,
Welcome to the family.
Down here in Townville SC. I use to hang out in York a few years back.
If your goin to get help this is the place. I have had so many people help me out with juz bout anything to do w/campin & TD, and a few other thingys too.
Ya know one of them told me ya could get alot of things in a TD.
They was right, 2 people a small dog,cloths fir a month and everything to cook eat & be merry, and 2 screen rooms !!!
Well anyways, stay in touch!
Keno

[Jiminsav]

Vommie, how much money you lookin to spend..you looking for new or something to rebuild.
I just bought a new 2009 Shasta from a dealer in PA, went up there to pick it up and he has all sorts of tiny travel trailers up there. Shastas, Scottys, T@Bs. He had a Mojo, and a few R-pods.
also had a few a-liners

[JenniferandPups]

Welcome! We have two medium dogs (one 30 lb who is as tall as a 50 lb, and one 60 lb who is taller than most of his 100# playmates... they are both part poodle and take up as much room stretched out as LARGE dogs) AND my husband is 6'4" tall. We realized we couldn't have a teardrop, persay, either... and got a travel trailer.
Our travel trailer is 7 feet wide and 10 feet long. It is PERFECT for the four of us. One dog sleeps on the floor between the bed and galley, the other sleeps on the bed with us. There would be enough room for all FOUR of us on the bed, except one of the dogs doesn't "sleep nicely". She gets the floor. (The bed is about 6.5x6.5 feet)

If you got something of the same size, but with a smaller bed, you could probably put both dogs on the floor. Basically, a 7x10 floorplan should be perfect for you.

The new Shastas like jiminsav is talking about are about the same size/layout as mine. I've seen a couple other newer trailers of about the same size, as well. What are you looking to pull it with? We've realized that we really needed a truck to pull ours at 1500 lbs... luckily we have one. (We'd intended on pulling it with a Subaru outback style wagon.) The TTT's are a little big heavier than the teardrops.

[StealthDave]

Welcome to the forum. I've been on here a short time and have already gotten tons of good information. This is a great group of people. If you're ever near G'ville way, lets compare campers and pets.
FYI: leash training older cats can be a b**ch...

Dave