Pet Safety Blog

If you are planning a trip, will you take your pet with you?  Going on a vacation sometimes does not warrant taking them along.  If it is a business trip, you would not take your pet with you anyway, but vacations or visiting friends and relatives, may be different.  There are several choices you can make remembering the welfare of your dog. If you decide to drive or fly will help you make up your mind to the correct decision. Another thing to keep in mind is if you really want to take your them along with you, then certain preparations will need to be made.  Another thought is a pet sitter, or will you have a friend or neighbor watch over them for you in your absence?  Will this be the first time you have taken your pet to a kennel, or left them with someone else?  Separation from one another is sometime difficult, and may be hard on them.  The perfect solution would be having someone you trust to stay and take care of them in your home.

I have personally had an experience several times visiting relatives out of town, and had a woman that sat with pets in addition to her regular job.  She was not what you would call a professional pet sitter, but she was certainly good at what she did.  After leaving her job at the end of the workday, she would come to my home, feed my dog, take him out for walks, and if there were medications that were necessary, she would do that too.  She stayed overnight every day that I was gone, and only asked for a few items to be available in the refrigerator for her.  She took care of my plants and did other things that were necessary to maintain an uninterrupted household.  Before leaving my home to go to work, she made sure my dog was in his dog kennel.  If you decide to call upon a family member, a friend, or a neighbor, insist on paying them for their help.  They may not want to accept any monetary offer, but usually people do much better jobs if they are paid.  (See Part 1 for more into) 

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