Who will take care of your dog while you go on vacation?
We will always leave at least one family member at home to take care of our dog,
cause our dog won't eat any food that given by outsider.
My dog having more serious problem about this before,
which she don't even eat food give by me when my mom go to vacation.
Luckily the problem already fixed.
How about you?
Who will take care of your dog while you go on vacation?
Or did you bring your dogs together?
[question posted by ycpgoldberg]
responses and comments:
The Dog itself .... {he he } ;-) u can keep it in ur relatives house when on a vacation. [avinashkoochee]
My dog treat my relatives as outsider, even my mom's sister that just live beside us. My dog won't eat food that give by them.... [ycpgoldberg]
Hi!! Our pet is like one of our family member.I willalways try to bring him with us whereever we are going.If it is not possible,then somebody of us should stay back to attend him. [chirantani]
My pup goes with me everywhere, for the most part. If we're flying somewhere that requires a lot of health permits and quarantine and we're going to be there only a short time, I usually make arrangements for her to stay with her 'grandmother'. I hate leaving her anywhere, and she's been riding since she was a pup. [fluffnflowers]
We used to leave our dogs with the neighbor. Jaya and Beethoven knows some of our close neighbors. [WATARIKENJI]
Hi ! Our pet is our family member, so I will try my best to bring him with us. If impossible, I will leave him with my best friends who are also familiar with it. [wangchunlin]
My dog usually won't eat for a day when I'm gone. I thinkthey worry when their people aren't around and do not want to eat. I now my dog is always so overjoyed to see me even if I;ve just gone to the mailbox. it is love. [snowy22315]
This happened to my parents older dog . He was very sad when they went away and would not eat . This went on for a 2 days and my parents had to come home early. yeah , its puppy love happy [metschica25]
its very simple. just give your dog to vetnerian and hr will take care of him. however this problem has not arrived me...lol [arrangement]
We won't let them stay at vet, we will worry about them. There are many bad comment in vet, and we really worry about that. [ycpgoldberg]
Well, I recently went on vacation and a couple of my husband's friends stayed out our house to watch over things and take care of our two dogs. I will never do that again! My house was filthy and the dogs were not very well taken care of. It took my four days of non-stop cleaning to make my house live-able. I keep my house very clean and I was so mad that it was so far gone from them. From now on I will pay to kennel my dogs. It's expensive but worth the peace of mind and not having to deal with all that hassle when I get home. There is a kennel here out in the country and the dogs get to run around in a multiple acre area. I will take them there for our next trip. [emma412]
I will always phone my friend if I let them to take care my house and dog. Maybe your friend just gone crazy when they're in your house. [ycpgoldberg]
So far I have always been able to leave my dog with my parents if I have not been able to take him with me, but even if they can't watch him I have a good friend with another dog just like him who can take care of him. It's always good to have people he knows and trusts that are able to look after him as I'd never trust a kennel to take care of him as good as he deserves. [Seraphine]
I always wanted to take my one dog on vacation , but my fiance thinks it would'nt be fair to the dog to sit in the room when we are out . I would try to take the dog most places . Anyway , I usually will have my brother take care of my pets and he will hosue sit . Gives him a small break away as well . [metschica25]
I always take dogs with me. The only time that dogs are not with me is when I take international trip. My dogs are with my boyfriend or someone who stays in my house with dogs. [polachicago]
WE will be going on vacation at the end of the month, Yeah! and we will be taking our dogs with us! We bought a small pickup just so that we can take our 2 chocolate Labs with us. After the kids have moved away from home, it seems that we plan our trips more around our dogs now! LOL! [grasshopper5257]
When we are traveling, they ride in the back of the pickup. We have a canopy so they are enclosed. We also had to put in a couple of vents so to make sure they are getting enough fresh air! Yep, our dogs are pretty spoiled! We will be going to visit my mom this vacation and she lives in the high desert and no neighbors! So they will have the run of the desert and they love going to grandma's house! [grasshopper5257]
For long trips (going to overseas), I'll leave my dog to my neighbour or friends. For short trips like day trip (using car), I will bring my dog along. [theonlyone123]
When I go on holiday I nearly always leave my dog with a trusted family member. I do this because my dog can find it easy to settle. I've only taken my dog with me twice on holiday - both in Cornwall in a caravan which we rented. [justinomg]
So I think take your pets to your relatives.Although it won't eat any food by others. I think the dog didn't have a good sight but a good smell. Put your clothers you dressed to your relatives.Then feed them by dressing that clothes.Try this way ,may be useful for you dog. [luckystu]
I have two cats, but no dogs, and when we go on vacation, we hire a pet sitter to come in and feed and look after our cats. I don't like to put the cats in a boarding place, because both of them are rescue cats and don't do so well locked in a small space all day. My eldest is especially skittish about not being allowed to roam about. We hired a pet sitter to come in and look after the cats when we went on vacation back in March, ans although they were peeved that we dared to leave them for a whole week, they were much happier being in familiar surrounding. [angelwhispers30]
If we can't take the dogs with us then they stay with my dad and his dogs. The dogs have lots of fun running in a temporary pack and we have the piece of mind knowing that they will be safe and well cared for. Theya re always happy to see us when we come home though. [willowbean]
My dog is just like my family. Where we go, there is always my dog will be. Cause i just can't leave my dog alone. [mymoneylot]
I don't have a dog, but I used to have a rabbit. I think pets are the same. They are like babies of the family. I can't imagine people will leave their babies at home alone, which is very irresposible. The best way, I think, is to have someone stay with them, especially someone who he is familiar with. Bringing them with you might not be a good idea either. The trip might not be very comfortable to them. [Daisygreen]
When we have go on vacation my next door neighbor has taken my dog. He is practically family so my dog loves him and my best friend and her kids have taken her. My dog adores children and thinks they are her puppies especially disabled children so it worked out really well. My dog slept at her son's feet and protected him from everyone even his own dad. [slcharger]
We have a deal with friends. We watch their animals on vacation..and when we go, they watch ours. That way the animals can be at home and comfortable! (We leave on the TV in the days for them. At night, we turn it off, so they sleep welll. It seems fairly normal to them then.) [Gargoyle0134]
hehe, my neighbours do it for me. [roger3611]
I lost my dog. i had a dog named jinky. about 3 months back i lost him. he went outside the fence of our house . no one was at home at that time. we looked for him all the day but wasn't able to get him back. i think some one took him when he went out. NOW we don't have a dog. [mtsandeep]
My wifes best friend always takes care of our dogs when we go somewhere. We have a kennel for the bigger dogs and she will come by twice a day to let them out for a while and feed them. She always takes our little Maltese home with her rather then leaving him in the Kennel. He is so spoiled and is an indoor dog. He is also the only one that will not eat when we are gone. The others could care less as long as their bellies are full. [1grnthmb]
Hi ycpgoldberg-fortunatley when I go away I have a friend who loves looking after them and has them stay at his house my daughter is always around too and takes them out-so aam quite lucky that way but normally don't go away for more than about 3-4 days-littleowl [littleowl]
hello ycpgodberg, we always try to bring our dog with us as much as we can as we prefer that he is with us, it also helps us not to worry or wonder if we can can our trip or not due to some incident. we are happy that most hotels now accept dogs in the room and even some theme parks or places of attraction allows pets with leash on 'em so it is much better as they enjoy the trip as much as we do, if even we cant really bring him (like flying to another country) then we have to leave him to our dear friend and he will stay there till we comes back. he is great dog but not friendly after all the trauma that had happened to him back then so it is not easy for him to adapt to others specially with a family that has another pet as he tends to be jealous but other than that he will survive with another person with him provided that he will just have his own peace LOL my dad-in-law have a dog and they cannot really go places together lately as they have a dog and they see her as a family baby so someone should always be with her as well as the cats, so trips is not that easy. anyway, i hope your dog is fully recovered now and will be able to adjust with all the changes that might happen to her. takecare [jairgirl]
oh, that's pretty sad i hope that the government as well as the family will help and educate each one of us of the importance of life be it human or animals. animals need our care and love specially the domesticated ones. i am really happy that US and other countries are giving more awareness and openness bout pets. thanks for the best response and for being a wonderful and loving pet owner. keep it up. takecare [jairgirl]
I don't have a dog, rather a cat, and I have a friend of mine who takes care of him when I go on acation. Shakti goes to my friends place, and she brings him back when I come home. [danishcanadian]
I know this is terrible but if ever I go on a vacation with the whole family,there's no one left to take care of the dogs.When that happens,I really want to go home badly.I'm the only one who's passionate towards pets. [kat_princess]