Itinerary, Travel with Pets
I am learning so much from this site! My husband, son and I plan on traveling this Spring/Summer. We still as yet need to buy the right vehicle, but we have determined it should be a Class C. I...
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We travel extensively with our 2 large dogs in a small Class C (hence my name). Like others have said, it's important to have a copy of their vet records, especially their vaccinations, with you.
Here's some things we've learned: It'll take longer to get where you want to go. We stop much more frequently when we have the dogs with us. If we don't take them for at least a short walk every 3-4 hours they get restless and start to roam around and fuss at each other.
National parks are not dog friendly. Dogs are not allowed anywhere but paved areas. Keep this in mind if you like to do long hikes. The dogs will have to be shut up in the rig. Be mindful of the temperature. When we went to Arches NP in July, we kept the generator on and the air conditioning on high whenever we left the RV.
Some parks with have breed specific rules. Quite a few do not allow pit bulls, Rottweilers, Dobermans and other "dangerous breeds".
Dogs take up a lot of room if you don't have much space. We have 2 75-pound collies. Between the 2 of them we had no floor space left in our 21 ft Class C with a queen bed in the back. We now have a 24ft rig with 2 couches on order in hopes of having some more space.
You'll have to be creative to figure out a place for the cat box that will be dog proof and secure. Let me know when you figure that one out, please. We have one cat that might be a good traveler, but the placement of the box might be an issue.
Above all, have fun! We love taking our dogs along with us. They seem to like it as well.
I just went back to your original post and see that you have a Boston terrier. Well, that negates a lot of what I said about big dogs and breed specific rules... but the rest applies about stopping and national parks.
Here's some things we've learned: It'll take longer to get where you want to go. We stop much more frequently when we have the dogs with us. If we don't take them for at least a short walk every 3-4 hours they get restless and start to roam around and fuss at each other.
National parks are not dog friendly. Dogs are not allowed anywhere but paved areas. Keep this in mind if you like to do long hikes. The dogs will have to be shut up in the rig. Be mindful of the temperature. When we went to Arches NP in July, we kept the generator on and the air conditioning on high whenever we left the RV.
Some parks with have breed specific rules. Quite a few do not allow pit bulls, Rottweilers, Dobermans and other "dangerous breeds".
Dogs take up a lot of room if you don't have much space. We have 2 75-pound collies. Between the 2 of them we had no floor space left in our 21 ft Class C with a queen bed in the back. We now have a 24ft rig with 2 couches on order in hopes of having some more space.
You'll have to be creative to figure out a place for the cat box that will be dog proof and secure. Let me know when you figure that one out, please. We have one cat that might be a good traveler, but the placement of the box might be an issue.
Above all, have fun! We love taking our dogs along with us. They seem to like it as well.
I just went back to your original post and see that you have a Boston terrier. Well, that negates a lot of what I said about big dogs and breed specific rules... but the rest applies about stopping and national parks.
