Quote: Originally posted by glampingtime on 10/4/2015
Quote: One slight problem we've had is going shopping while on a camping trip, especially in sunny weather when leaving the dog in the car would be dangerous. We've found big shopping malls to particularly intolerant of dogs.
When we go food shopping, one of us stays outside with the dog and the other goes in the supermarket. We don't go to malls when we're away, too busy chilling.
Independent shops are often more dog-friendly than chains, I find. The independent chemists where I live allow dogs in, Boots doesn't; WH Smith don't allow dogs but the local independent stationer/bookshop positively welcomes them and offers fuss, water and biscuits.
In Petworth, Mr Fran picked Lola up so she could look at all the lovely meat in the butcher's window, and the butcher saw her and gave me a nice bone for her. I thought that was really kind, and it kept her nice and busy of an evening!
Fran - definitely agree with you on independent shops - nine times out of ten they're far more welcoming of our four legged friends. Unfortunately on our last trip we had no choice but to hit the malls to try and find some ground anchors (due to very high winds).
All in all though, I don't find it a chore to take the dog with us - on the contrary, she's a member of the family and we'd feel weird not having her with us! We'd take the cat too but I don't think he'd be at all impressed.
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Topic: Pets/Dogs/camping
