My wife and I trekked with a 200lb Rottweiler for around ten years. We did this from the time that he was around 4 months old until I had to give him away because of the grandchildren. He was the greatest thing on the trail. We slept in a fairly heavy wal-mart dome tent for most of this period and it worked great with the full coverage rain fly that my wife made for it. We carried this very light weight fleece pad for him to lay on and as soon as it was laid down in the tent he would know exactly what was going on. Another advantage of having a canine around was that no animal can come any where near your camp without him knowing that it's there.Like a four-legged security guard and yes he did carry his own pack with his "stuff" in it and when it was put on him he was ready to go and he knew exactly what we were doing too...sabre11004...

The first step that you take will be one of those that get you htere !!!!!