[RowdysMom]

We have taken Rexy and Rowdy camping with us the past 2 summers - but, we "camp" in our travel trailer. Nonetheless, they are always out in the brambles and brush. You DO have to watch that they don't eat any trash that might be lying around. We take our 2 X-pens and put them together for a big play area. We also take an indoor/outdoor carpet (cheap one purchased at home depot) to put under them if the ground is yukky. If there is grass though, we don't put the carpet down. We have 2, 25 ft. leashes and a stake so that we can stake them out also and they can romp and play. Where we camp, they cannot be off leash.

My guys absolutely love it - we were camped on the Conejos river in southern Colorado for 5 weeks this summer.

One word of caution though, for the first time, they got Giardia, probably from the river water or perhaps from wildlife poop in the grass. They had diarrhea but they were eating and weren't sick. I did have to put them on antibiotics to get it cleared up.

Also, we cut their hair short in a puppy cut becasue they can get all sorts of sticks, stickers, etc in their hair if it is long.