droid_ca wrote:Do you taking them camping with you or do they stay at home?
I've always taken the dogs camping. I show them, so they're used to be on the road and being travelers. Since I used to have too many dogs (five) to keep them with me in the tent, I used a beach cabana (those crescent shaped tents you're supposed to put lawn chairs in on the beach) to hold their crates, and then tarped them over at night to make it watertight. When I was camping with my young nephews, having dogs and kids in my set-up meant I got some of the more remote sites in the state parks, which worked out great for the dogs AND the kids. And on one memorable stormy night (the kids were 3 and 6) I put the dogs on down-stays between them - built in four-legged insulation.

The dogs have also camped at dog shows, in their own tent, for the last 28 years. They've all become good campers (sometimes after a rocky first night or two.)
Now, with just one (or sometimes two) dogs, the dogs sleep in the camper with me. They also sometimes sleep in their warm, dry crates in the car if the weather has been a monsoon, and they sleep in the dog tent when we camp at dog shows.
I also take my cat, Churro, camping and traveling. Camping with Churro is a little trickier - he's a bit of an escape artist - but I'll never forget the looks on people's faces when they discovered that yes, there really was a cat in a crate in my car, camper or in the ex-pen on my site.