Many people camp with their dogs. Do you have an RV? I have even seen tent campers with dogs. To me my dogs will be the best part of camping. Any way to include him?
Oh if the weather is okay we do take him, but our camping is 99% SCA medieval camping. That normally isn't a problem, but sometimes events don't allow dogs. For instance when we went to Mississippi in March, they didn't allow dogs, except service dogs - which I'm sure people really abused, but since our dog needs a seeing eye dog, it's not like we could pass him off as a service animal. (Not that we would...that's shameful)
Really though, the biggest problem is he's a Boston and he's very heat and cold sensitive. That's a real issue, especially the heat, with the snub-nosed breeds. He gets overheated and not only is it very bad for him but he gets snappy. Then again, being blind, he's more prone to freaking out a bit anyway. So in very hot weather, like the event in June, we had to kennel him. We couldn't have him in a tent in 100 degree weather for a week - he could have a heat stroke or whatever dogs get. For a weekend, we could manage, but not more than 1- 2 days at most. And he's very cold natured too. The event in Mississippi got to 30 degrees some nights. Jabber and I had sheep skins and wool blankets and managed, but we were COLD. He'd have been miserable, even wearing his little coat. Long and short of it is we really can't take him to a lot of camping events, just because it's not good for him, not to mention we can't take him to the archery field, we can't take him to the classes, etc. and places that do allow dogs will usually have big dogs and he's quite dog-aggressive toward big dogs. He's afraid of them and that of course makes him growl and snap and what have you. Little dogs - smaller than him - he's always been fine with, but now that he's blind...he's gotten skittish. We try, but he's just not a terribly happy little dog out in the world.
If we RV camped, we wouldn't think twice about it.
I'm going to give the vet a call today.