Travel with pets

Some places will have restrictions on number, breed or size allowed. Check before you get there.

We are pet owners and travel with 2 small dogs. My only advice is to clean up after your pets. Us pet owners have a poor reputation because of a few who don't.

Welcome to the forum.

Bring vet immunization records with you. We had a tag made with his name and "RV Dog" printed on 1 side. Both our cell phone numbers on the other side. He doesn't wander off--so everything has gone well with him.

I think he enjoys RVing as much or more than we do. He get excited when he sees the TT, as he KNOWS he is going.

We travelled with two medium sized dogs. Both seemed to enjoy the RV trips a lot more than stayin home. I often caught them watching the scenery go by as we travelled down the highway.

Like others have said many RV Parks have restrictions for the size, number of and breed of dog. This is usually a requirement made by the liability insurance company the RV Park uses, so most parks will not overlook these rules because they don't want to lose their insurance.

We always kept our dogs on leash and tied up in our camp spot. We never had to worry about them causing problems for other RVers.

Good advice from all the posters above..also, be careful when the weather is hot. Don't leave them in your rig if you are going to be gone for any length of time...

If your air conditioner fails or the power goes out, it can get dangerously hot very quickly inside.

If they bark/yap a lot, leaving them inside when you are gone will create problems with your neighbors.

Always leased also.

I've found that each dog will handle travel differently so it's kind of hard to come up with a strategy that will work with all breads or all dogs. You know your animals best so do what makes them calm and enjoyable and you'll come out just fine. When camping with dogs be sure to observe all campground rules concerning clean up, leashing and leaving them in the RV. Teach your dogs to behave in a manner YOU would like camping next to so as to not be a problem for neighbors. Don't expect to take them into exhibits, attractions etc. and most places do not allow dogs on back country trails though there are some exceptions. Your dogs CAN limit some of the things you are able to do but as long as you go with this knowledge in hand you can still have a wonderful trip.
Good luck / Skip

Thanks to all, I will certainly use all the advice.

I wish to repeat the advice about the need for proof of vaccinations. We were turned away from a park in California because all we had were the rabies tags.

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Some parks limit the number of pets you may have in camp. I just returned from several NY State Park campgrounds. They all have a two pet limit. They also require paper rabies vaccination certificates, and a 6 foot leash rule.

They now actually examine the rabies paperwork - the check in clerk has to sign off on the registration papers that he did so. In the parks I camped at they did not enforce the 6 foot leash rule, leading to some difficult moments because of bad campers.

Larry