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[tabtrailers] Re: Camping Etiquette Stories / Pet Peeves

 

Usually for every questionable camper that comes along we meet many more great ones, like the people who pass along their wood before they leave, or help with your tent in a crazy storm thus preserving marriage for another trip, invite you to their campfires etc...
However, I'm with you on the lose dogs. I love dogs, but when they wander into the site, and rile up your own pup-dog, it's annoying.
Loud cussing, unsavory rest-room habits, impeding on our site,leaving your food trash out for the racoons, birds, bears, etc to maul and spread ALL over the place....
Oops I can think of a bunch-
KelliSue, FL


--- In tabtrailers@yahoogroups.com, Heather Frystak <hfrystak@...> wrote:
>
> I have 3 peeves that just get me:
>
> 1: Cute little Yippie dogs that harass other dogs. We've nearly let
> Woo (our late, VERY big Husky/Malamute) eat some yippie dogs that
> decided to charge out of their campsite after him. Woo was leashed,
> the "harmless" little yippies weren't. Woo's taken down a 30-lb
> Neutria. A 5-lb yippie dog wouldn't stand a chance - and it would have
> been my dog's fault. :-(
>
> 2: Hygiene. I caught some parents instructing their kids to wash up
> at the hand pump after handling raw hamburger. It was a bit of a
> "You! Out of the Gene Pool!" moment for me. If their poor camping
> hygiene just got them sick, it's one thing, but they were out to get
> the whole loop sick.
>
> 3: That's not water on the floor. I love puddles in the toilet
> facilities where it just seemed like the commode was "just a
> suggestion". But that's not just a camping peeve for me (ask my
> brother-in-law *evil laugh*).
>
> I'm not picky. I just don't want to pay the vet bill for a preventable
> fight that was started by another dog or be on the receiving end of
> someone else's piss-poor (pun intended) hygiene habits. :-)
>
> Heather

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