I have never had a dog flown to me here in the states (mine was from Germany), but have shipped one puppy and one adult out. I recommend bringing towels (wet ones like for babies too), food, water and nutrical or nutristat. When shipping under 12 hours (I think) they don't feed them - if it goes over a certain time period they will. There is a bag of food attached to the top of the crate that shipper put there, but I would bring some more just in case it fell off on the trip or something. The towels and wet ones are just in case they went potty because let's face it I am sure they are going to have to before they get to you! Of course nutrical or nutristat to get their sugars up because it's been a while since they ate. The puppy I shipped did GREAT! She was clean and very happy when she got there! I did ship her Continintal because they are the only ones that ship in the winter and you can track them online - that part I really liked. Although you can call Delta and verify if the flight is on time so it's ALMOST the same as the other didn't update very often and I was ALWAYS checking it. LOL I think it's just as stressful for the person shipping the pup as it is for the one getting it!! I was a worried mess!!
Wendy
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