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Traveling with dogs, hotels, flying

we just finished a six day 3100 mile move from boston to portland with a 70 pound boxer and a 13 year old shih tzu, so here is the recommendation writeup i couldnt find when i needed it, the 380 dollar crash tested crate that earned its price in one panic stop outside toledo, the hotel chain that actually means it when they say pet friendly, the cerenia conversation to have before you leave, and the cooler of home water that saved us from day two diarrhea

my wife got relocated in april and we spent a month reading threads about flying dogs versus driving them before deciding to drive, Moose is our 5 year old boxer, 70lb of enthusiasm and motion...

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eighteen hundred mile drive austin to seattle in six weeks with our three year old leash reactive shepherd mix and looking for the calibrated take from families who have actually done a long road trip with a reactive dog on decompression timing, crash rated crates, and lodging strategy

Jasper is our 3 year old shepherd mix, 62lb, we adopted him at 9 months old from a high kill shelter in west texas. his reactivity profile is medium-severe leash reactive to other dogs, we have been...

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fourteen day cross country move with our eleven year old change averse beagle and the long arc of figuring out what travel with an anxiety prone senior dog actually requires because the published travel guides are calibrated to dogs who handle change well and the dog who finds change difficult needs a structurally different multi day approach, want to share what the fourteen days looked like and what we would do differently if we had to do it again

Quintus is an eleven year old beagle we got at eight weeks who has been a change averse dog his entire life. He has been the dog who needs three days to adjust to a new dog bed in a familiar room, the...

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