We travel with our 14 month old goldendoodle everywhere. I think we lucked out at how happy he is driving with us. He does the 24 hour (2 day) trip up to my in-laws at least twice a year, and many, many trips all over and in between.
In the Jeep with us at all times are a few toys, chewies, pooh bags, paper towels, old towels, puppy-paw wipes(he manages to get into many things) , a soft mat, an extra long leash... and a special driving harness,..( so he's a tad spoiled).
I also recommend Petacillin ( a doggy anti-diarrhea med), children's benedryl or a prescribed sedative, (we've used per Vet to sedate him if necessary, and once in a minor mishap with Pennsylvania Burrs),
For any trip longer than a couple of hours we pull off and play ball with him on the long leash,run together, (He has a ton of energy and I use him as an excuse to convince Sean to take more breaks.) stretch our legs, do the bathroom stuff, and then pile back in. He naps a lot and on busy travel days I break his meals up more so it kills the boredom and so he doesn't get sick.
For the long trips as well as camping he has his own luggage, with food bags ( my very precise husband measures out each meal into a little Ziploc), travel water, travel bed, more toys, tags,any meds, vet records, and a photo. He recently graduated from the crate to more freedom and has been (KNOCK ON WOOD) kind of awesome about it. ( though some hotels may still like you to have it, if you do hotels and not the camper)
I wasn't sure how he'd do at camping, but he loves it. He loves his big blue crate. ( our tab). we tie him to the camper( looong rope) and put out his bed and he's pretty content. We also put out about 400 of those camping matts in an attempt to keep his paws clean, but he manages to find a breach in the arrangement and lay there. When we're inside, he's inside. He takes up a lot of room, and generally likes to lay wherever Mom is standing. We've only left him alone inside for brief periods as an experiment to see how he would do, and he zonked out in 35 seconds, so my worries are soothed that he would be scared or sad or chew my camper to bits. Now that it is really, really hot we won't camp or take him with us, if we think we'll be away from the site, as I'm scared the electric might blow and the a/c would shut off and he'd cook.
But that's my neurotic stuff :)
Despite all of my declarations to the contrary when we got the dog....he sleeps in the TAB bed with us, (we sleep window to window and he sleeps in the knook under the cubbies in the back...or well he starts out there until he gradually takes the entire bed over Hubs and I are huddled on a teeny fraction of the bed. He's cute though.
I wrote this novel because it is all pretty new to me as well, hope any of it was helpful...
KelliSue
--- In tabtrailers@yahoogroups.com, "zanydoc" <zanydoc@...> wrote:
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> Thanks for good advice about our trip.
> Any tips about traveling with dogs?
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