Helpful Pet Travel guidelines

[denny8569]

So you are getting ready to go on that long-awaited and much-deserved vacation. If you are a proud pet owner, you have taken your pet into consideration while you planned your vacation. Or have you? Below are a few pet travel tips you may want to consider.

* Should you take your pet with you when you go off on vacation? Consider how old your pet is. He or she may be too old to travel. If you are going on a long journey or flying, your pet may not be able to handle the stress brought on by traveling long distances and long hours...

* If you decide to take your pet along, ensure that your pet's health is good and that he can travel. A week or two before you go on vacation, take your pet to his veterinarian for a thorough check up.

* When traveling by car, make sure that your pet has a collar on at all times. The collar must have your pet's name, your name, your address and phone numbers. Keep in mind that when you travel with your pet in a car, your pet can easily run off while your back is turned. If you’re pet is wearing a collar with all the right information, whoever finds him can easily contact you for your pet's safe return.

* Ensure that your pet's carrier or crate is big enough for your pet. Keep in mind that your pet dog may have a hard time traveling in the car in a crate, and if you’re pet is a cat, your cat must be in a cage while you travel by car. If you are traveling by plane, you will be required to place your pet in a crate. Make sure to get a crate that is airline approved and is of the highest quality.

 

[Anti]

* cats really don't like being on a plane that is taxiing. Especially if they're in a cage the size of a shoebox stuffed under the seat. They crap all over themselves and the tiny cage you're allowed to bring on a plane. It's hard to get your cat clean in the plane's bathroom as soon as the captain turns off the seat belt sign. Harder still to convince him to get back in the cage.

* if you move cross-country in an economy hatchback, don't put the litterbox on the passenger seat's floorboard. Your girlfriend has to sit cross-legged and smell cat litter the whole trip. And then you don't get laid. (One cat had a fun time lying in the dashboard staring at the world moving past. The other sat on my lap the entire way.)

 

[Sticki]

Option B and maybe get some dog or cat valium off the vet for them to be administerd before flying or travelling?