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Old 05-08-2019, 09:11 AM   #1
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Am looking for advice on the best outside pen for the 2 canines. They are 15# each. I am tired of the tangled tie-outs. Ideally would like something that is light and can be stowed in the back of the 4runner along with all the other gear. I do have the metal heavy kind at home but hate to carry them as they are heavy. TIA
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What breed of dog?
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We used my pontoon boat anchor with rope attached to dog. You can place it anywhere and lengthen or shorten the lead as required. It's called a grapnel style anchor.
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We switched to this for our 3 terriers - disassembles/reassembles in maybe 2 minutes, has a door, lightweight compared to metal, and never rusts!


https://www.amazon.com/IRIS-Exercise...pcontext&psc=1
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On a similar subject magnified 20 times, this book has some insights to portable pet areas. Plus it’s hilarious....
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We switched to this for our 3 terriers - disassembles/reassembles in maybe 2 minutes, has a door, lightweight compared to metal, and never rusts!


https://www.amazon.com/IRIS-Exercise...pcontext&psc=1
Thanks Charlie, I remember that pen & your terriers from one of the NOGs.
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Am looking for advice on the best outside pen for the 2 canines. They are 15# each. I am tired of the tangled tie-outs. Ideally would like something that is light and can be stowed in the back of the 4runner along with all the other gear. I do have the metal heavy kind at home but hate to carry them as they are heavy. TIA
I travel with 4 Brittanys on our usual camping trips and to field trials and other dog venues. While you can buy fancy stakeouts from companies such as www.lcsupply.com, they are heavy and hard to pound into the ground. I ended up making my own. I bought 3' lengths of light chain, snaps, and rings from my local farm store and 4 medium duty metal tent stakes. I pound the tent stake through the ring all the way into the ground so the chain is secured. It takes less than a minute to set up 4 of them, and the chains never get tangled. I don't want to lug and set up heavy X-pens either. I store all four set-ups in a small bucket. This should work great for your smaller dogs.
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We used my pontoon boat anchor with rope attached to dog. You can place it anywhere and lengthen or shorten the lead as required. It's called a grapnel style anchor.
We did that; worked well until the puppy grew up a bit. Then I had to chase the anchor down the road....
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Am looking for advice on the best outside pen for the 2 canines. They are 15# each. I am tired of the tangled tie-outs. Ideally would like something that is light and can be stowed in the back of the 4runner along with all the other gear. I do have the metal heavy kind at home but hate to carry them as they are heavy. TIA
We got one of those round pens that folds relatively flat from Pet Smart to use for the large chihuahua when we go camping because he would get tangled up with our big dog when they were tied up. Never worked because he really doesn’t want to be anywhere but in a lap. What a waste of money! Dang dog has us trained!
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I made dog barriers out one inch PVC. Last few years our dogs have been well past the gate challenge stage.
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We used my pontoon boat anchor with rope attached to dog. You can place it anywhere and lengthen or shorten the lead as required. It's called a grapnel style anchor.
I think you meant mushroom anchor.
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Old 05-10-2019, 10:43 AM   #12
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I think you meant mushroom anchor.

I did a Google because I couldn't remember the term, and came up with "grapnel", but I think I meant mushroom anchor too.
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With small dogs you could use a popup pen. I just use 24" ex-pens and put up with the weight as I like to fence the whole trailer. Although now my old guy who liked to hang out under the trailer is gone, so I will likely only use two in front of it (I was using four.) The plastic ones are nice, I have one, but it is bulky so you trade a small decrease in weight for bulk.

Tie-outs work well for one dog, not so well for two.
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But you might look at these: https://www.seabreezepetitepens.com/ .
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Dog pens

It is pretty silly, but our 2 60# goldendoodles don't jump the 2' tall folding pen we got from PetCo. We may just be lucky as I have had other smaller breeds that could scale anything.
The pen is handy, folds flat and can add sections as desired. When we travel with friends we add theirs to ours. Last year in Jasper we had 6 chairs and 6 dogs in the pen hanging out with evening drinks. It is great to have a place to have the dogs off leash and nearby, especially when setting up camp.

We put the folded up stack of sections in the back of the Highlander to travel.

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Thanks for the suggestion. I do have an 8 panel wire pen already but was looking for lighter & possibly bigger square footage. Will bring that pen. Btw these were used to keep them out of my square ft garden. Probably get some other good ideas at the rally. Appreciate your help.
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