What do you do with your dog when you go on holiday?

[Dibbythedog]

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looking forward to our holiday on the South coast this year near the New Forest . We book a lodge in a holiday park so we can take Libby and Pip with us. Its dog friendly in that area.

 

[JoanneF]

Timber goes with us too. We have a problem with separation anxiety. Mine, not his.

 

[Tinytom]

Our dogs come with us too ..either in our motorhome or a cottage...
New forest isn't far from us ...it's lovely there xx

 

[JudyN]

We always took Jasper with us - with his fragile disposition there was no way we could leave him with someone else. By the time we got home both he and the carer would be completely traumatised

 

[Flobo]

I always took Jake too, IOW, really dog friendly there.

 

[Mad Murphy]

Took the dogs and the parrot with us..

 

[Burrowzig]

They come too. For me, 'holidays' are usually going to nature reserves down south to see different butterflies, and sleeping in the back of the car in the car park.
When I had a knee replacement, 2 nights in hospital, I had to use kennels. The other knee should be done soon and will have to use kennels again.

 

[Linz1012]

I'm going on an impromptu weekend away next weekend. Honey's coming with me.

Honey's coming with me. Cousin's (younger sister to his breeder) looking after Kaylus. When I go abroad, or on my cruises, Honey stays with my brother.

Timber goes with us too. We have a problem with separation anxiety. Mine, not his.

Ain't that the truth?! My SA is already through the roof at the thought of leaving Kay alone just for a few days, with someone coming in to check on him.

 

[arealhuman]

Rusty comes with us, can't even think of going without him.

 

[Dibbythedog]

Thanks for replies , spent ages doing a long reply and then somehow it disappeared , undo didnt help . Will come back to this .

 

[RGC]

Mabel’s with us currently on the Roseland Peninsula. Unfortunately, George has had to go into the cattery.

 

[Dibbythedog]

Took the dogs and the parrot with us..

Did your parrot enjoy his holiday ?

I used to work at a lovely boarding kennel, I left my bridge baby Judy JRTx there . I knew she would well cared for but I cried all the way down the motor way. My OH used to stay at home while I went on holiday with my sis and her hubby as we has 3 dogs . But when we found we could take dogs with us in the lodges , we did that. It says two dogs but Dibby dog had passed by then .
It doesnt say you cant take other pets !

@Lindz Cruising , lovely but not for me . I get sea sick

 

[ThreeFloofyButts]

I don't go, I can't leave the cat, and couldn't put the dogs in Kennels, Hilde would have a nervous breakdown and the other two are liable to cause the staff a nervous breakdown so we stay home, but I am very much a homebody anyway so not that much of a hardship.

 

[JudyN]

It doesnt say you cant take other pets !

That reminds me of a holiday cottage we went to that specified 'One small pet'. Jasper may have been a large dog, but he was smaller than, say, a pet llama

Whe I was a child we often left our rough collie in kennels when we visited my grandparents - we lived in Scotland, my grandparents were in Somerset. One time, when we collected her we were informed she was pregnant and being young, I assumed that it had happened at the kennels Despite that, I thought it was very posh as when they groomed her they put talcum powder on her. In retrospect, it might well have been flea powder

 

[Mad Murphy]

Did your parrot enjoy his holiday ?

Actually although he didn't like the travel cage he did like the car journey. We took his spare cage and his play stand so he wasn't stressed and he seemed to like the change of scenery. Hes been away with us twice.

 

[Flobo]

When we used to go up to the in-laws ( kind of a holiday), our ferrets had a holiday cage up there so always came with us plus Jake of course. Two dogs sometimes, two ferrets, two kids and two adults and all our stuff, packed into a triumph herald. Happy days!

 

[Dibbythedog]

@Flobo Trumph heralds and Carpris were the car to have back in the day where we lived . I can't believe you fitted all that in a Herald. Did you have a roof rack ?

 

[RGC]

When we used to go up to the in-laws ( kind of a holiday), our ferrets had a holiday cage up there so always came with us plus Jake of course. Two dogs sometimes, two ferrets, two kids and two adults and all our stuff, packed into a triumph herald. Happy days!

I used to drive my mother’s Triumph Herald 12/50. A terrific car with a sunroof that’d rattle itself open when in excess of 50mph on the Kingston bypass. Had an amazing turning circle to rival London black cabs. Very happy days.

 

[Dibbythedog]

Back in the 70s, a work mate had a Triumph herald with a soft top, he was called Harold and his name was in letters along the top windscreen as was the fashion then.

 

[Flobo]

I can't believe you fitted all that in a Herald. Did you have a roof rack ?

Amazingly no roof rack! She was a convertible, but we had a hard top for her. I'm not quite sure how we did it to be honest!
The boot was deceptively deep, I think it was the 2 girls in the back with one dog(a long legged staff cross, so not small) in between them, one had the ferrets in their carry case on their lap, Jake(collie cross) was sat in the footwell by my feet in the front, hubby driving and stuff jammed in wherever possible!! Apart from food for the animals, they had everything else they needed stashed at the in-laws. It was always funny watching my father in laws face as we all got out of this tiny car!