The American Beagler Forum

For those of you that travel to trials etc and dont have a dog trailer what do you do with your dogs when your at the motel etc? I hadn't really given it a thought until now but leaving them stuffed in the box overnight can't be real good on them.

I ain't say'n nothin bout no hounds in a motel...
One time I saw a nice dog kennel built around a air conditioning unit out back of a motel, odd place to keep your air conditioner but the hounds never minded...
No really, a dogbox for the night is the safest place for them. imho

We lock'em in the dog box. It doesn't bother them a bit, luckily we have dog's that know how to keep their mouth shut in the truck box. Get up early and put them out on the stake outs.

I'd leave them in the box too. I have one that like to bark/bay at the moon. He's spent lots of nights in the dog box.

When we travel to Maine from Ohio, we drive for as long as we can and then sleep a couple hours in a rest area or Welcome Center. The dogs are padlocked in the dog box in the bed of the truck. When we arrive at camp in Maine, the dogs are tied out during the day and put back in the dog box at night. We put a tarp over the box for additional warmth and to muffle any barking, but the dogs are usually to tired to bark much.

I like to use a trailer when on the road leave runs open and lock trailer up dogs tend to lay down in box when moving. Works really well. That being said I sold my trailer and have yet to get out of the area to hunt or run dogs will be putting dogs in box when I travel now have to heal up a little more before I take a trip now. Dave

Run em all day and put em up in the dog box for the night. If I can't run em for what ever reason I put em out on a long chain a couple times a day, but I dont have that happen very often.

I let mine out to stretch and do their business. I usually feed them around early.

Dog box.
I often wonder if folks realize that a dog box is probably as big as a above ground kennel that a lot of.people house their dogs in.

I make frequent hunting trips up north to northern Maine,New Hampshire and Vermont that often last a couple of weeks.
When travelling the Interstate I usually try and stop and get the dogs out every 5 hours or so to do their business,drink some water and just walk em around for 15-20 minutes to let them stretch out [me too!! ] as from east Tn. to where I go is 20 plus hours on the road.
Whenever I'm at a motel I always try and pick one where I'm on the ground floor and I can park the truck right outside the motel room door.I also try and find a motel where there is some field/grounds around it/out back where I can walk the dogs.My dogs travel real well and I've never really had problems with them in the dog box at night.I do put pad locks on the dog box doors and my dog box is additionally chained/padlocked to tie downs bolted to the truck floor.[ Went to a coonhound Nite hunt years ago in Ohio where a guy at the motel locked his two Treeing Walkers in his dog box and went to bed.Got up the next morning and the dog box with both hounds had been taken right out of his truck in the motel parking lot!! ].
When at hunting camp the beagles are all tied out first thing in the morning while we eat and get saddled up for the day's hunt.In the evening they are again tied out while we're getting supper/showers,etc. After feeding and watering them and letting them empty out they then all go in the dog boxes in the back of the trucks for the night.I've kept beagles like this on 2 week plus hunting trips and it doesn't seem to bother them much.After running rabbits all day long they are more than happy to crawl into a nice straw filled box and go to sleep.I'll usually try and put some fresh straw in after a week or so cause it does get to stink cause sooner or later some one's going to pee in there.LOL.
I don't pack my beagles in too tight.My box isn't "coondog" size but it is bigger than a lot of "beagle" boxes I see guys using.I usually haul 4 dogs [2 to a side ] and occasionally 3 to a side which still gives them enough room.Put too many dogs in and after awhile they'll start getting fussy as they get played from hunting every day.

I hauled three dogs, an English setter and two beagles, 900 miles on way driving pretty much straight through. They took turns--they were house dogs--riding in the cab with me. Traveled just fine. We stopped every few hours to do their business and get water and food.