Originally Posted by
Dublinlin
Does anyone else Tensa hang with their dog? My dog has always slept beneath my hammock and that is where I like him to be. However he needs his own wind break since my tarp doesn't reach the ground. (Even my superfly is inadequate to the task.)
My gear for 4 season hanging with my dog was well honed when I was hanging between trees. I had a DIY pup tent (three sided, floored, wind break) that hung under my tarp off it's own ridgeline strung between the same two trees I was using for my hammock (or occasionally off the foot end of the hammock, itself). So far, I've only had my Tensa since this summer, so it hasn't yet been an issue not hanging a windbreak for the dog...but, now as we are getting further into Fall I'm needing to figure out a way to shelter him from the wind as he sleeps beneath my hammock. I'm hesitant to hang his tent off the end of my tensa, because he is a 117 lb bulldozer and I worry he might lay against the tent wall, putting undue pressure on the apex of my tensa. Of course, I can't run him an independent ridgeline between two trees to hang his pup tent off if I don't already have my Tensa situated between two trees. I'm looking for a solution that won't require any trees, will be inexpensive to DIY, and won't involve me sharing my bug net with him (as in the pet palace option--he can find ticks even in the dead of winter here in the Ozarks and though they don't usually bite down on him, thanks to tick treatment, they do crawl through his fur and I don't want them crawling off him onto my bedding!).
Any suggestions? (Also, I'd prefer his shelter to be one that I can situate beneath the foot or head end of the Tensa rather than the middle, since I'm worried he might lean up against the Tensa legs if his bed was there.) Our next camping trip is a week and a half away and we are heading further north, so it is likely to be colder at night.
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