Make Travelling with a Dog a breeze!And why not? Travelling with a dog can greatly enhance your trips, if you are well-prepared and your dog is socialised, trained and adaptable. Allposters.jpg)
Whatever way you are travelling with a dog, you will need a safe and secure place for your dog, convenient food, plenty of fresh water … and opportunities for your dog to relieve himself. This is when it comes in really useful if you’ve taught your dog to go on command. Check back to
Housetraining
to see how.
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If you’re travelling with a dog that can fit in your pocket – or perhaps a little larger! – you may like one of the dog-bed-cum-booster-seats you can see here, which allows your small friend to travel like a queen and see what’s going on outside. Some of them even have a drawer to carry everything you’ll need when travelling with a dog.
Many people like to have their pet loose in the car. It’s nice to have a warm furry head within reach, especially if you’re travelling alone at night. And if you like to see your dog’s ears flying in the breeze from the window, then this is for you!
But it really isn’t advisable to have the dog completely free. Travelling with a dog is like travelling with any passengers – they should be restrained for their own safety and everyone else’s. There are some excellent harness-type dog car restraints which simply attach to a normal seat belt,
and you can find them here with just a click.
And don’t dog hairs just love to weave themselves into standard car seat upholstery? Try these car seat covers for catching all the mud and those inevitable hairs which result from travelling with a dog.
Air Travel
When travelling with a dog by plane you have to have a special airline-approved crate. They’re a very good design and can be used in the house as any normal crate. These ones are really good because they fold down for easy transport when the dog’s not in them. Click here to see airline crates for travelling with a dog.For all these travelling aids, the same advice applies: you need to get your dog accustomed to them while you’re still on dry land, so to speak.
In the case of a crate, just keep it in the kitchen with its door open and ignore it. Sooner or later curiosity will get the better of your dog or puppy and he’ll go in to investigate. You can put a bed or some of your dog’s toys in there – you can even put his food bowl in and feed him in the cage, as soon as he’s very happy going in and out.
Once he’s familiar with it, you can start shutting the door, then move it to different rooms in the house. Dogs don’t generalise very well, and he might consider the crate acceptable only in the kitchen!
For more hints on Crate Training, click here.
To acclimatise him to the harness you can simply clip it onto him just before an exciting game or mealtime. Of course if your dog is a seasoned traveller he’ll be so excited to be going in the car that he won’t even notice any cages or harnesses!
Passports for Travelling with a Dog
Gone are the days when the British Isles was a no-go area for travelling with a dog. With the new Pet Passport scheme, dogs can travel to the British Isles from most places in Europe, US and Canada – and that means that British residents can travel freely in Europe or North America with their pooch. How civilised we’re becoming!However, like all things involving bureaucrats, there’s a certain amount of red tape to disentangle. I understand from friends who have taken their dogs on holiday with them, that the tricky point was getting a certificate from the vet in Europe to certify that their dog complied with the procedures so that he may be allowed back! Many vets find the system uninteresting and unrewarding, and are unaware of the niceties of British law. It might be wise to get the necessary forms direct from the UK authorities and take them to the vet yourself.
And Europe, America, or anywhere else, you also need to check up on requirements for protection from fleas, ticks, worms, and other nameless beasties.
You’ll find a wealth of information when you click here.
Then to get the necessary treatments for guarding your dog,
click here for a great choice.
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