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05-03-2009, 10:18 AM | #1 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Connecticut
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| What Do You Do With Your Babies When On Vacation? This will be the first time that I am facing this situation . . .we are planning a 2 night/3 day trip in November with our kids (20 & 16) and I'm at a loss of what to do with my babies . . .Usually just DH have been going away leaving our daughter in charge of sitting . . .I don't have an issue leaving them with my mom, although my husband feels uncomfortable with this idea . . .my mom is 79 and she's not senile or anything, just a bit off . . .(to put it mildly) my husband feels insecure leaving our babies with them . . .most of the boarding facilities around me require that they be spayed and/or neutered . . .and I'm not comfortable with them being around the "bigger" dogs . . .our vet has a boarding facility, but my babies have never been in crates and/or cages . . . What does everyone do? I don't think I could leave my babies home for 2 nights with just someone (a neighbor) coming in to check on them . . .it's not like they are cats who can live idependently . . .ugggggh I'm at a loss here . . .
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05-03-2009, 10:22 AM | #2 |
And Rylee Finnegan Donating Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Metro Detroit, MI
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| Ellie goes with us or I have family watch her or we just don't go. I am just too nervous about her being boarded and either they wouldn't follow my instructions or she would bite and get quarantined.
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05-03-2009, 10:24 AM | #3 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Connecticut
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| I know what you mean . . .I would not feel right boarding them . . .not at all . . .I just don't understand why my husband feels uncomfortable with my parents watching them . . .
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05-03-2009, 10:45 AM | #4 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Cape town, South Africa
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| I just returned from a trip and my babies had gone along. The place we went to was pet friendly and the doggies had a great time. It was a long trip in the car (6 hours to get there), but they were fine. It took a little effort and coordination, but we enjoyed it. Hehe, I had a whole extra bag for all their goodies. We had a lot of fun!
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05-03-2009, 11:22 AM | #5 |
Luv my 7 Furkids Donating Member | Were getting ready to go campin and all 7 will be going with us. |
05-03-2009, 11:27 AM | #6 |
"Owned" by Miss Tricksie Donating Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Riverview, FL
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| If my baby can't go, I don't go. I have no one to leave her with that I can trust and I will not board her.
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05-03-2009, 11:29 AM | #7 |
Donating YT 10K Club Member | Ours go with us....or when they can't...I paid BIG bucks for someone to come stay with them. I don't mean show up a few times a day...I mean stay literally and I still hate it. I much prefer the other vacations.
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05-03-2009, 11:31 AM | #8 |
Owned by "Lil Rat" Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Maryland
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| Same here, if she can't go, I don't go. I just don't trust leaving her with anyone. She has never been boarded, I have no idea how she would react! I know it sounds silly, but i plan my vacations around her. I find dog friendly venues and that's where we go.
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05-03-2009, 11:41 AM | #9 |
Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Midwest
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| I am glad I am not the only one--- ....That worries about boarding the little ones. I have 2 now(soon to be 3) and it is a real concern. Lots of people don't have a fenced secure yard, and not everyone wants to take on 2 little dogs. My new vet does boarding, reasonable price, and what better place than the vets? I have left them with family members in the past and most recently a good friend. Boarded them one time at a kennel that has special interest in little dogs---the owners have little dogs. It gets expensive. I have never flown with them tho I have been on flights where other people had little dogs with them. |
05-03-2009, 11:45 AM | #10 | |
Owned by "Lil Rat" Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Maryland
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05-03-2009, 11:55 AM | #11 |
YT Addict Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: phoenix
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| My parents have found a person who watches dogs inside that person's home. he did some research, got references, went to check out their house and finaly decided on someone he trusted. I think he paid like 16 per day. he called them daily and the woman was really nice.
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05-03-2009, 12:17 PM | #12 |
YT Addict | I have a very very best friend that also has 3 yorkies, and she lives like 4 house down from us, so she helps me when we go out of town and then I do the same for her. I have so many so she just comes here and check on them and lets them go potty about 4 times a day. But I have had puppies and when that happen the puppies and the mom does go back to her house and stays. It works out great for us. It is so good having close friends you can count on. |
05-03-2009, 12:18 PM | #13 | |
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05-03-2009, 12:18 PM | #14 |
YT 2000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Kentucky
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| We always take ours with us. I worry too much about leaving them with someone. Like they might get out and run away or another dog might jump them, so many things can happen. |
05-03-2009, 12:51 PM | #15 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Tennessee
Posts: 1,236
| We usually go to Gatlinburg for Christmas and stay in a cabin. This will be the first time our 3 yorkies go with us since we just got them this year. This will be so exciting. Maybe they won't chew up all the wood in the cabin
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