Traveling with your pets starts getting complicated when you cross country borders. Then it becomes more than just a matter of finding pet friendly hotels or booking a plane ticket for your pet. Because of the concerns of bringing diseases into the country from other places, many countries require an animal to be quarantined upon [...]
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It just occurred to me that this is spring break time. When I was in college, I used to love hiking and going places on spring break, and of course this is also a great time to take your dog with you — especially with the weather starting to warm up in many places in [...]
Tomorrow is supposed to be beautiful and sunny, with a high in the mid 50s, but Sunday isn’t looking so hot — the forecast is calling for possible rain and/or snow. As a result, a weekend trip is out of the question — though it would have been anyway, since my cat is sick.
Instead, I’m [...]
Traveling with our pets is partly for the pets, so that they don’t spend the time locked in a kennel, but it’s mostly for us. I don’t know about you, but anytime I travel without my pets, I end up missing them quite a bit — I miss the warmth of my cats sleeping on [...]
We’ve had a rash of good weather lately, and I’ve been gearing up for my next trip. I’m long overdue for a visit to a friend in the PNC, so I’ve been looking for a pet hotel in Seattle.
Before we go anywhere, though, I want to be sure to get the dogs in to see [...]
I was recently reading a couple of articles about breed-specific legislation (where municipalities ban certain breeds of dogs because they are viewed as being aggressive or dangerous) and which breeds are really the most aggressive. You can read the articles here: The Three Most Aggressive Dog Breeds and Dog Bite Statistics. Many people will find [...]
One thing I like to always do when I’m traveling with my dogs is check where the local dog parks are in any place we’re visiting, and make sure I take the girls there to blow off some steam at some point during our trip.
Unless your dog is the best traveler ever, most likely he [...]
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Sorry for the week with no posts! I’ve been really busy with work, and haven’t had much time to blog.
I was originally supposed to go to North Carolina this week for another business trip, and I was planning on bringing at least one of the dogs with me. I’d even already done the legwork of [...]
I think I’ve been taking it for granted that all of my readers will have already discovered what came as such a shock to me — that only certain hotels will allow you to keep pets with you in your hotel room.
Dog friendly hotels are a lot like renting an apartment with dogs or cats [...]
On the advice of these books on blogging that I’ve been reading, I’m going to deviate from my normal rambling post and give you my first list: a checklist of things you need to be sure you do before your trip. There is a lot to think about when you are traveling with pets, so [...]
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