Welcome to the forums, Chris! As Bob suggests, HG will give you great customer service and help out. Here are my two cents:
1. Red is head for that hammock, from what my friend who owns one says
thanks!
2. When you say "separating" are you referring to it just coming unzipped or an actual zipper failure where the teeth/chain is coming apart from each other without the slider body being what separates it?
Actual zipper failure. Running the zipper beyond where it separated got things corrected, but trying to understand if I'm doing something wrong that's causing undue stress, or if there's a defect in the zipper.
3. The small rings are indeed to help with things like you mentioned, although I'm surprised there weren't already other hardware components installed on them if this was sold as a whole kit. For example, if you're using the hammock rings to pull out the fabric to achieve an asymmetrical lay, then the hardware and cordage required to do that would likely be shock cord attached to something like this:
https://dutchwaregear.com/wp-content...Tie-Outs-3.jpg
It didn't come with any hardware for this. I used a couple small carabiners plus some extra guy lines/stakes I had to do something similar to what your link showed, but I think shockcord would work MUCH better than the static line I used, since I had a lot of slack once I got in the hammock. Does it make sense to connect it to both the hammock body and the underquilt?
Hit me up if you want to talk about a good setup for the dog - what you have works but you may want to consider creating a "run" between the two trees for it.
I strung a length of paracord between the two trees, and attached the end of her leash to it with a carabiner so it would slide along the length of the paracord. Is that basically what you're describing?
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