Discussion Forum or Information Provision?

Look at the "Overseas touring" index, Crissy! 

The CC doesn't like us talking about dogs ,

Crissy - one of the old threads (which concerns Overseas travel) is continuing (open) in the Talk about your Pets section 

Taking your dog on buses in Spain

Why not ask if the threads that were opened and then closed in the Overseas section can be re-opened and moved into that section, rather than having a separate sticky in the Overseas section .  Stickies may run to hundreds of pages, all of which have to be read to find an answer.   At least in the Pets section it appears that you can ask questions and receive appropriate and informative answers.

I rather have a feeling that in earlier days it was decided that all questions relating to dogs travelling overseas should be posted in the overseas section - now it appears to have gone in a reverse direction!!!

Actually, Crissy is not wrong in so far that I have, on previous occasions, asked a question seeking general feelings, answers, on a broad front  of opinion only to see  the thread dumped in a narrow banded section and no relevant answers forthcoming.

I sympathise fully.

Thanks for that Valda. Talking about pets really does have connotations of chatting about pets , not caravanning abroad to me. 

If I was searching for information on taking pets abroad that's the last place I'd look! 

Just checked, it's in the social room. What's that got to do with caravanning abroad 

Crissy

Perhaps you should e-mail the Community Manager with your thoughts?

David

If the existing "Pets" section is considered 'casual chat', then a section "Travelling with Pets" could accomodate debate about issue both in the UK and abroad. 

Keeping al such 'doggie' matters in one place does prevent the forum becoming an extension of the Kennel Club. Whilst it sometimes appears that ownership of a dog is a condition of membership, there are those who don't like dogs.

Although not brilliant I would use the search facility to look for dog/pets threads on CT I wouldn't try to trawl through 4 years of threads in caravanning abroad.  For info search for dogs came up with 3900 hits and took 3 seconds to list

What a lot of barking about nothing, I don't care where it is as my research is done via search engines and official websites. In various places on this forum there is good advice, but it's not a problem weaning it out even for the irregular user. So what if it's been answered before, just ask it again for an updated answer and click on 'follow this discussion' as it eventually disappears into oblivion.