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Recommended for pet loving hikers
Highly recommended!
Best Beginner Book on Backpacking with Dogs!
Not enough butter for the bread
Best so far

A Guide to Backpacking With Your Dog
Charlene G. Labelle
Manufacturer: Alpine Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0931866596

Book Description

Guide to backpacking that provides information on selecting the right pack, planning what equipment to take, determining how much weight a dog can carry, and how to handle emergency situations. Nine features of a quality dog pack Four easy steps to introduce your dog to a pack Discover the fun of geocaching Any dog can do it!

Customer Reviews:

Recommended for pet loving hikers.......2004-10-10

Now in a new and significantly revised edition, A Guide To Backpacking With Your Dog by dog-owner and backpacking expert Charlene LaBell is a no-nonsense guide to the ins and outs of enjoying vigorous outdoors hiking with one's canine pets. Individual chapters address necessary training and conditioning, mountain biking, geocaching, selecting a pack that properly fits one's dog, bringing along the right amount of food for oneself and one's dog, legal and permit issues, and much more. Black-and-white photographs and easy-to-follow rule lists nicely flesh out A Guide To Backpacking With Your Dog, which is practical, "user friendly", and enthusiastically recommended for pet loving hikers with their canine companions.

Highly recommended!.......2004-05-18

Charlene LaBelle admirably covers such practical matters as selecting and fitting dogpacks and planning hikes, and has a special gift for instilling confidence and generating enthusiasm.

Best Beginner Book on Backpacking with Dogs!.......2004-05-13

If you want a great book on getting started with backpacking with dogs, look no further. Charlene has written the definitive guide to packing with dogs. Don't listen to the naysayers! This is it when it comes to choosing a pack, planning a hike, and camping with dogs. I highly recommend this book -- it's the first and the best out there.

Not enough butter for the bread.......2003-03-14

This book has the basics just fine. But nothing on the more experienced side. If your trails require fording you find no help here. Tent training, protecting tent floor & inflatable sleeping mattress from dog's nails etc stuff are missing.

The best part of the book was dog's health checkup, signs of dehydration, paw hardening recipe etc.

Conclusion: If your hike lasts a day, the book is fine. If it lasts a week in the wilderness, your dogs will be in trouble unless you find some more information.

Best so far.......2002-02-22

This is the best book so far that I have found on the topic. Avoid the falcon press book on doggy packing - it's pretty durn lame and very short. This book does have basic factoids like how much you can expect your dog to carry, how much water to bring, proper tethers, dog booties,proper trail etiquette (yes, the dog is ON THE LEASH),etc.

She understands that the way the public sees people who hike with dogs is up to each of us - I have had the displeasure of being pounced on in the wilderness by a dog - I instantly had a bad impression of the hikers who called him back. Also, dogs left alone barking at camp - take your dog with you! It's so mean to leave the poor dog alone in a strange place anyways - I'd bark too! This is what gets trails and camps closed to those of us who are responsible!

So if you want to be a responsible 'dog packer' read this book and follow her advice.

See you on the trail!

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