I am planning a Quetico trip this year and will be taking my dog for the first time. She'll be 2 and weighs 45 lbs. My plan for sleeping is to double up a leash so I have 12 feet and wrap one end around a tree that my hammock is attatched to. I have a pad she could sleep on.

But after reading another thread about how wolves will come in camps at night and leave their scent and scat I'm really apprehensive about this. Does anyone have experience bringing a dog when using a hammock?

Wolves or no wolves, my best friend has her own sleeping bag and spends the night cozied up next to me in the tent.

quote TomT: "But after reading another thread about how wolves will come in camps at night and leave their scent and scat I'm really apprehensive about this. Does anyone have experience bringing a dog when using a hammock?

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if you talk and make the usual campground noises while cooking and setting up your sight I would think it would be very rare for wolves to come anywhere near your site

I am very quiet since I do not cook or build a fire and I have never seen evidence of a wolf visiting my camp or even being in the vicinity

maybe on the periphery where wolves are more used to humans, I'm sure it probably happens, but very rare

I guess I missed the evidence where wolves have been visiting camps :)

I have thought about taking my dog with me often. It seems that every fall I read about a grouse hunter that either looses his dog to the wolves, or ends up shooting the wolf who attach his dog. A DNR agent told me wolves don't like dogs (they see them as competitors) and will try to eliminate them if they get a chance. Having said that, I have seen many dogs coming back safe and happy from a bwca trip.