What do you do with your dog when . . . I am planning a short trip and would like to take my dogs, but I know there will be a couple of hours during the trip that I will not be able to have them with me. So for those of you who travel a lot with your dogs - what do you do with them if you can't be with them for short time? Or are you always able to be with them 100% of the time? Just looking for some safe ideas. |
A couple hours "during" the trip you can't be with them? I don't understand this, but is is possible you could take a friend along and make the trip more fun and she/he could take the dogs to a park when you can't be with them? Offer to buy the friend lunch, dinner and all. |
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I generally don't go places the fur kids aren't allowed but if I do someone stays with them. However if I am renting a house I will leave them "home" but I would never leave them at a hotel/motel. |
Maybe I am "bad," but I do take Piccolo and Vivi on plenty of our trips and occasionally do to leave them for short amounts of time. (There are times they cannot go out to eat with us, etc. ) Then I put a Do Not Disturb sign on the door, crate Vivi, and put a baby gate across the hotel/condo door, just in case a maid opens it, even though I have the Do Not Disturb Sign up. Or I put the girls in an xpen, with all that other stuff too. I am lucky, my girls do not bark at people in the hall. I did stay next to someone last year with a dog and that dog barked the whole time his owner was gone. Drove me crazy. Please don't put a dog in a hotel room that barks a lot. Ahhh! |
This is the reason I like La Quinta's- you can leave the dogs in the room as long as you leave a cell phone # with the front desk so they can contact you in an emergency. I always crate mine when leaving them alone in hotels AND shut the crate in the bathroom- just in case a maid was to accidentally miss the sign and open the door |
I don't often leave them in a hotel/motel room, but if so they are all crated, and I too put up the Do not Disturb. And as mine will bark, it usually only to go to a take out place. Normally when we travel we usually cook either at the park, or in the motel lot. I have an electric plate, plus a portable bbq also a coleman stove. You can make a whole lot with those three things. I usually buy really premium food stuff, so it is a treat for us. You know great steaks, shrimps, etc. I menu plan so I know what we are having to eat, and then left overs usually make our lunch for the next day. I also take breakfast things, and have a french press pot we travel with. I co-ordinate the meals with different wines n things. Sometimes it means we don't eat until fairly late, particularly if we are at the show. We always like to take the pups for a big walk about after showing, as they have been in their crates except for potty breaks most of the day. Then we all are together to eat outside/inside if it is bad weather, or too cold. I have also left my big ones in the van with the fans on if we have to eat inside and they can't come in. Never in weather over 75 degrees. RAzzle I put in my purse carrier and sneak him in :-) We also check the van out ever 10-15 minutes and try to get the window seats. With my next large van I'm getting a Zanotti and that is an additional A/C, so that you can keep the dogs in an air conditioner van. I've also left my dogs in crates in the house I'm visiting if we are staying there. |
Now that Ellie really has to go with us, we try for cabins where she can safely stay alone and bark her brains out if desired. |
I do leave Jackson in the hotel for brief periods when we visit Gettysburg in the summer. We always go out to dinner one night at an indoor restaurant where he can't go; he does fine in the hotel by himself for 2 hours and I'm right across the street. I turn the TV up loud and block off the door just in CASE a maid or somebody was to open it... but I also put a Do Not Disturb sign. Also, when we go camping, the dogs stay in the locked/air conditioned RV when we do things that they are not allowed to (i.e. mini golfing, eating indoors, etc). They do fine. :) |
I may be bad, but my two don't do well in the hotel without us... So I just bag them up in the Kwigy Bo, and they go to dinner with us :) They much prefer going with and love riding in their bag, so it's not really a problem. Luckily, they don't make a peep in their bag... So we haven't had any problems. |
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I am getting ready to research for "doggy day care" for few hours if I need it..... If we are traveling and stay at hotel or motels I won't leave them in room...( once accidentally the house keeper open the door without knowing we are already checked in.. we had no clue who was other side the door opening without knocking.... can't imagine if my baby was there by herself and some one comes in... We usually Rv camping but never did with Truffles yet but I will still take her day care :) |
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