Longleat - how do you visit with a dog
stopping at Longleat site for a few days on our way back from a week in cornwall . wondering how people visit the safari site if you have a dog ? Do you leave in your caravan if weather not to hot ? suggestions please
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This post really should have gone in the dedicated "Dogs and Touring" thread. Unfortunately, we don't have the option to merge threads so I have to close this one.
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Not just Longleat... National Trust houses, Museums, Concerts, Art Galleries, Swiimming Pools and Supermarkets too.... That's the problem with dogs. But there is an answer.
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The answer is that you need to put the dog's welfare first. Many's the time we didn’t visit places because we wouldn’t leave our dog but that’s all part and parcel of responsible dog ownership.
Please do not leave your dog in the caravan. Even if it doesn’t seem hot to you, conditions can quickly change and your dog could suffer. Also, dogs left in cvans tend to bark and upset other people. The club asks people not to do this.
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With the schools having just broken up, unless you're very, very keen, now is probably the worst time of year to visit Longleat, especially if you have a dog - they're no longer welcome anywhere on the estate at all. You could google day kennels in Warminster or do what we have done a couple of times in the past - put a note in the information room asking if anyone would be prepared to look after your dog for a couple of hours in return for you doing similar - there will be folk who stay on site during the day and you might just be lucky! Failing that, we live under an hour's drive away from Longleat and would be happy to help you out by looking after your dog - but it would mean a journey here and back! My email address is in my profile.
Good luck, but you'll need it this time of year!
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Simple ans do not take a dog to Longleat, and do not bring it in a resturant where I am eating.
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Yes, personally I'd agree with the first part, but I'm a bit curious about the second - although we don't take one of ours into a pub because he just won't settle and never has, the other one just curls up on the pub floor and sleeps. If it's OK with the proprietor why would you object?
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when you tour as a couple you can more or less do whatever you want and go where ever you want and any time you decide.
However when you have a responsibly for others' welfare , be it children and/or dogs, then things change and certain things are then just out of reach, tough really but there you are.
You have accepted these responsibilities and need to carry them out responsibly in a caring manner with their welfare at heart and don't just 'dump' them somewhere when they become a nuisance.
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If I was closer, I’d gladly come and look after your dog, and then follow hooter to his restaurant, that is of course providing the dog doesn’t mind...
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May I take this opportunity to commend you on your positive attitude to your Dog👍🏻. I’ve always steered well away from anyone my Dog dislikes😊
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If you are a caring dog owner you will include your dog in your activities when on holiday. If that means that you cannot visit places where dogs are not allowed, so be it. Choose your holiday activities to include your dog. But never leave your dog in your van while you go away. That's being selfish.
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If my dog is not welcome then I don't go there. I would not even consider even asking if he could go into a safari park. As to visiting restaurants, we have returned from France not long ago and he was welcome everywhere. He is better behaved than some children.
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The weather this year is exceptional, and we have certainly had to alter what we have a look at, and how we do it. Way too hot to leave pooches alone in MH at any time. Ours are struggling here at home, spend most of day on wood floor in whatever draught they can find, we bucket them as well with cool water if they start to pant too much. Our little weather station is saying 33.c outside at the moment!
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Although the safari park animals will have their hats and gloves on in winter
it's probably a better time to visit with your own pets, no worries about hot weather and the bonus of the excellent light and lantern displays. Even if you have to take it in turns you will enjoy it just as much and it's quite a magical display in the house and park. You need to book the various venues as early as possible when they appear on line and use the club discounts too.0 -
You could make an exhibition of yourself again.
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thankyou for this information
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Here it is......
https://www.caravanclub.co.uk/globalassets/pdfs/content/uk-holidays/Visiting-Club-sites-with-dogs
We put our small dog in his travel cage on the van floor if we have to leave him for a short time eg to visit the shower block etc. He seems to know not to bark then because we use that at home when he needs containing (visitors etc). We leave the van well ventilated and would obviously not leave him unattended for more than a few minutes or in hot weather.
As many have said before, having the dog is like having children in terms of responsibilities. Having had both, we prefer the dog......
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Count me in with my two
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"Simple ans is" you go somewhere else
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