How many dog and cat people owners cruise with you?

Wifey B: I know a lot here have dogs and cats that cruise with them, so how many of each?

Two Yorkies (weigh less than your average cat) and one 130lb+ Pyrenees/Lab cross.

One 90 lb Lab.

W.B., One female border collie. Tolerates the boat to get on shore with a frizbee.

Our two Scottish Terrorists!
Pepper and his wife Mattie.
Bruce

We have a 75 pound lab, Radar.

Our two year old Golden Retriever "Beau"

Ken E. said:

W.B., One female border collie. Tolerates the boat to get on shore with a frizbee.

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I can understand.
One female kelpie; Life revolves around the frizbee.

One Maltweiler who smokes.

We would have loved to take our dog cruising, but Angus positively hated anything to do with water. I tore a rotator cuff trying to lift this struggling 115-lb Ridgeback onto our Defever. Here he is trying to figure a way across our creek without getting his feet wet.



When we get over his loss and get another dog, it will be exposed to water at an early age and will cruise with us.

AusCan said:

I can understand.
One female kelpie; Life revolves around the frizbee.

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Tennis balls, too? We bring a couple dozen each summer when we go to Alaska. She thinks it's cute to toss them overboard.

Two cats. They drool a little on the rough passages but are fine for most cruising.

We have no dog or cat as we are just thinking about how to deal with it aboard, but I am loosing my hair all around the boat so it is similar

Simply found it much easier to satisfy my pet fix by visiting other boaters with pets. Everybody seems happy with the arrangement, especially the dogs and cats.

Ted

Two cats.

Ken E. said:

W.B., One female border collie. Tolerates the boat to get on shore with a frizbee.

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Same! One female lab/border collie....40lbs, Bimini is her name.

Must play frisbee!

Lou_tribal said:

We have no dog or cat as we are just thinking about how to deal with it aboard, but I am loosing my hair all around the boat so it is similar

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Ha! Been there, doing that. What doesn't turn gray falls out.

Greetings,
Mr. L_t. You have HAIR?

The Yorkies (Darwin & Mable) are house dogs and pretty much stay on the boat except for bathroom breaks ashore. Here they are in Barnard Harbour, north coast BC.

Zain, otherwise known as The Beach Master (so named because if he's completely relaxed we know there are no bears around) accompanies us on all our hikes. Here he is on a ridge in McMicking Inlet, Campania Island, north coast BC.

Zain, asleep in snow

O C Diver said:

Simply found it much easier to satisfy my pet fix by visiting other boaters with pets. Everybody seems happy with the arrangement, especially the dogs and cats.

Ted

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No dogs allowed aboard our boat. We do welcome a cat named Fish owned by another live aboard couple in our marina. Fish occasionally wanders aboard for a look-see and exits after exploring a bit. Fish is a real character.

Our current answer (one cat) isn't representative of our boating progression. We started with a Great Pyrenees and a big Golden Retriever. Next was another big Golden Reciever, with two cats at home. Eventually the cats came aboard so we could medicate one of 'em 2x/day. Now, only the one cat left and she seems to be quite happy once on board (although she dislikes the ride from home to boat). I suspect wifey is shopping.

-Chris

Inspecting the catch...

one dog, two cats

Our dog Radar loves going on the boat. Open the back door and tell him to go to the boat and he goes nuts and runs to the boat.

Two dogs, Pug and a Spaniel. One cat, Persian.
Hard to imagine being without them.

Our mini lab Pearl always goes to the boat with us. We have a cat at the land home too but the cat doesn't get to go boating. Kitty guards the house while we're gone.

One pig and one bear.





Both low maintenance. Wheeeeee!

Cute photos but no animals on board for me... I am too particular with my boat and would rather avoid hair and scratch marks. I have enough to worry about or consume my time. Fish at home are great though!

OK, I guess we're the only ones that cruise with two cats.