Many people enjoy traveling with their dogs. While some prefer to take their furry friends on the road with them, others prefer to travel via plane.
If you plan on traveling on a plane with your dog, the following tips will help prepare you and your pet for the journey.
1. Make sure your dog can handle the flight.
Not every dog will last through the flight. Dogs that are high strung will be too nervous during the flight, causing them to panic. This can result in barking or whining for the duration of the trip, or cause the dog to embark physical harm on themselves in order to try and break out of the cage. If your dog cannot handle traveling short distances in the car, flying is not a good option.
Some dogs are prone to breathing problems that may become worse in the cargo area of planes. Shih thus and pugs have inverted mouths that cause severe breathing problems, and placing them in the cargo of a plane can make their symptom worse, and sometimes even life threatening.
A new puppy has decided that you should bring him home with you and you just don’t have the heart to say no. Maybe you live in a small apartment or you just bought some very expensive new carpet and you have decided that the best way to handle the situation is to crate train your new puppy. Sounds like a good idea but you don’t know where to start. Crate training is a good option for just about any dog but there are a few things that you need to take into consideration. You need to get a crate that is the right size and is high quality, you need to understand that it isn’t to be used for extended stays, you need to let your puppy out the very first thing when you get up, and never use the crate as a punishment.
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