Hi Kaaren, we are travelling with two little dogs. in the main we have not had any hassles. there are times when we have to make arrangements for someione to look after them if we want to visit some area that's not dog friendly like getting someone to keep an eye on them is a caravan park, or similar but really no problems. From time to time we find ourselves wanting to go into an area only to find its a national park so we have to turn around, but so be it. There are some many places to see it really does not matter. The only grissle I have is sometimes we don't realise we are into a national park until we are so far in and then its a bit of a problem to turn around. In the main we are so glad we have them with us. One of the plus sides is that they are great conversation starters. Anyway have a great journey and take care.
Brian and Cheryl
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I am a mature female intending to start travelling in the next couple of weeks. I intend to take my dog with me. Looking for whatever advice I can on the downside of travelling with pets - i.e. caravan parks, camp sites etc.
Hi Karen and welcome to the forum. We often travel with our small dog and have never had problems. There are plenty of dog friendly parks and free camps. It does take a bit of planning and there are some places we can't go but its worth it to have Bailey with us. Have a look at the other sub forums relating to pets.
Hi Kaaren and welcome. I have travelled with 2 dogs and a bird and had no problem finding places to take them. Mind you I haven't done a lot of travel, mainly between Sydney and Brisbane. Apart from National Parks, I don't think there are too many problems having animals with you, apart from the heat in the vehicle.
Welcome Kaaren I agree with Brian and Cheryl above- lots of pluses and one or 2 negatives that we live with. We also have 2 dogs, and they make sure you travel safely- like stopping every 2 hours for a walk and a wee. Make sure your dogs are vaccinated, and you need to carry the certificates with you if you need "Doggy day Care" at any time.
Hi All,we travel with out pet most of the time and she loves it. Just a warning to all it's SNAKE season here in Victoria and we found out on the weekend how quick a quiet fishing trip to our local spot can turn in to nearly a disaster. We'd gone with our daughter and son in law fishing and they brought along their 2 Staffies, while sitting having a cuppa the 2 dogs kept running up to a spot some 20 metres away and we'd call them back, this happened about 3 or 4 times, we decided to move to another location some 20 minutes down the road and so packed up pets and away we went. We arrived at the next stop and decided to have lunch, it was then we noticed one of the Staffies to be walking oddly, her rear end was wobbly, she didn't show any other signs but then would run off and romp. We kept an eye on her, it then became quite noticeable that she was having trouble keeping her back end in control, it kept collapsing, also her eyes looked very glazed. We decided that we would take her to a vet, the nearest town was Bendigo and that was 25 minutes away, thank god for Internet phones, our daughter while in transit looked up vets in Bendigo, called the emergency number, informed the vet on call what symptons the dog was showing and when we arrived at the clinic the vet was there to meet us. We could not find any puncture marks on the dog, but a couple of quick checks from the vet identified that it was a snake bite and that we were very lucky that we acted so quickly. He put her on a drip and gave her the vaccine that covered the Brown snake, (Tiger snake affects the respiratory first) and after 3 hours she was nearly her old self again, it's taken her a good week to fully recover. We are so thankful to the Bendigo Animal Hospital and the quick decision of the vet that treated her. I think it's a really good idea if everyone looks up on the Internet on the symptoms of snake bites on the pets you travel with because the quicker you get them to help the better chance they have of surviving. We think that she must have got bitten while we were having a cuppa as they were very keen on going back to that one spot, also it was a big flat grassy area with short grass and we didn't hear any yelps. Needless to say we are all paranoid now.
I'm really happy to hear your dog is ok. Quick action on your part as well as the vet. Thanks for the warning, the snakes are out and hungry after Winter I guess and with dry weather they look for water.
Its also Tick season up here in Qld, not sure if they go as far south as Victoria. I check Cody every day, being all black it would be very hard to see the tick so I rub my hands all over his body and in any creases looking for anything unusual. Lucky he is very docile, being a staffy, and will lie down and let me look where I need too. Lots of snakes around here too so always on the lookout.
