Taking Pets On Vacation

July 11, 2011

Interview with Dr. Marty Becker, author of the book Your Dog: The Owner's Manual: Hundreds of Secrets, Surprises, and Solutions for Raising a Happy, Healthy Dog

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Mike Carruthers:
70% of us take our dogs on with us on summer vacation and just like people in the car, dogs need to be secured.

Dr. Marty Becker:
And that means either in a carrier, behind a barrier, in a harness clipped into a seatbelt for dogs under 30lbs there’s even little booster seats.
 

Veterinarian Dr. Marty Becker, author of the book Your Dog:The Owner's Manual, says if you plan to take your pet on an airplane…

If you have a pet with a pushed in face, like a pug, like a bulldog, those absolutely should not be flown. If you look at the data of pets that are injured or have died every year there almost all the pets with the pushed in faces, when they get on a plane they just can’t get enough oxygen and they can’t keep themselves cool.

And if your dog gets anxious Dr. Becker says Veterinarians don’t tranquilize dogs anymore instead they use pheromones which are available at your pet store.

And it’s the same thing that the mother secrets in her nipples at 3 days of age starting at 3 days of age to calm the puppies down but it works on dog throughout their natural life. It comes in a diffuser like a bath and body works diffuser, you just plug into the area where they’re spending most of their time or just a little spray bottle to spritz. And that’s great by the way for pets that have separation anxiety or you’re traveling in the crate. And it’s just like “cum by ya” it works so well in most pets. And for the pets it doesn’t work on you can ask your veterinarian for a prescription of generic Xanax. 

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