Originally Posted by yorkietalkjilly  I think most of us understand not being able to travel with babies easily or leave the home base when a young one is ill, expecting that child to spend long hours in a moving car and all that can involve with car sickness, fretfulness, fever maybe coming back and being quite a way from the pediatrician. Even when a sick child is better, most Moms don't want them to spend a big part of their day bumping along in a car or at various rest stops or roadside cafe restrooms for changings, meals, clean-up. When small childrens' interests vs. those of a lost, possibly very ill dog that might be ours, have to be weighed, one makes certain judgments about priorities. While many of us doglovers won't agree with your decisions, others will, but in the end, it is your decision to make.
Myself, if that fever was very low-grade, falling steadily, the child really better & my mom-gut said the baby was on the mend, I might hurry-hire a nurse/
shanghai a friend, grab meds, ice, make my kids as comfortable as possible in the backseat and hie out, but I'm an extreme OT doglover idiot. If that baby was still fretful, fever up one time, down the next, red-eyed, nauseous, coughing some and not looking right, I'd have to stay home and watch that baby and die a slow death inside over that little dog's possibly being my Yorkie boy and losing him. |