Willie Mays has been with us a little over a year now and he has created a few challenges for us. The purpose of getting Willie Mays was to give “Duff” a a dog that would lay on his bed while he read. Well he is pretty good for that job. Basically sleeping is the thing that he does best of all unfortunately after several weeks we discovered that finding the door to relieve himself was completely out of the question. We suspect that this may be Willie’s reason for being dropped off the at the shelter.
Not a big deal for us. We have a large farm with plenty of room to roam and besides our outdoor dog, “Lady Bird,” enjoys the company. In any event we also wanted to take Willie with us on our camping trips. After the first 2 trips I spent 80% of my camping time untwisiting Willie from trees, picnic tables and lawn chairs. On top of that it seems Willie isn’t much of a traveler. He gets car sick. Needless to say a couple of episodes of car sick dog made me toss in the towel. Fortunately he was able to stay with Grandpa and Grandma.
Well camping season is again upon us and I hate to leave Willie behind this year so I am willing to give traveling with Willie another shot. What I don’t want to do is spend my weekends untangling the little devil. It is no fun for him and absolutely no fun for me. So I think I may have found a solution. Pet pens. I have located a few at Walmart that seem to be fairly inexpensive. They also look like they fold flat. I want to make sure that I have a pet exercise pen which is bigger than a kennel. I want him to have enough room to move. Wire pet pen or Plastic pet pen makes no difference to me as long as it is tall enough that he can’t jump out. I am not terribly concerned about his ability to leap considering he is about twice as long as he is tall.
After doing a little research I have found that the major brand for pet play pens are: Midwest Pet Pens, Kennel-Aire, and Iris. After doing some price checking it looks like I will be doing my shopping at Pet Pen shopping at Walmart. The small pens start at about $25 and go up to about $80. You can of course go for much taller and larger pens for $275 but I don’t see those as being as portable. I need something that will fold flat and store under the camper or in the back of the pickup without weighing a ton.
A pet pen looks like my best bet for going on camping trips with my favorite 4 legged little buddy. I can also see these pet exercise pens as a must have if you have an indoor dog that needs to be contained.
