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Originally Posted by Katie1
Small as they are Dogs can fly in the cabin with their owners... Free OR Buy a seat for them.
SERVICE Dogs NEVER leave their owner! Are you saying it Unhealthy?? duh
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Take the dogs with them? Even if it was just another state you take two dogs with you what are you going to do with them during the wedding? It would be very rude to bring dogs to a wedding. Most hotels do not want dogs left alone in rooms and the ones that do, want them crated if left in the room and if they start barking and fussing chances are the hotel will call the owner and insist, they come back to the hotel.
When people get a pet dog, they need to teach it to be alone as what happens if you suddenly get ill and end up in the hospital? A dog that has learned to be alone will do fine but those anxious dogs that you have created separation anxiety in will freak out. Is that fair to the dog?
An older man I know had a dog that suffered major separation. anxiety, he and the dog were so codependent on each other it was pitiful. A few years ago, the dog at 13 died and he eventually got a new dog. I kept telling him to teach it to be alone, but he has this thing that he just will not do anything the dog might not like and now at 2 years the dog runs his life and that whole codependency thing is going on. The dog has learned if he does not want to do something all he has to do is make a big fuss and his owner will not make him do it. His owner has this big fear if he makes the dog do something it might not want to do that it will not love him. As A puppy the dog spent time at my house when his owner had some work to do and I enforced rules yet oddly enough the dog still loves me, and I tried to get his owner to see that, but he just cannot do it.
I have always had 2 or 3 dogs and years ago use to board my dogs. Did they love going to the kennel probably not, but they survived, and it did not change our relationship. It might have even made it better because I was able to enjoy things, I love besides just being a dog owner. I have spent time in foreign countries and with friends all without the dogs and I enjoy it. Despite loving my dogs, it is nice to have some dog free time.
I also have used dog sitters but just have them come over twice a day to feed and walk the dogs as my dogs do use a pet door to go out to potty if need be and are fine at home alone. The dogs have done fine and love the current sitter. If we are out walking and run into her, Chaos almost does back flips, she is so excited to see her. She will send me photos of dogs with her, and they always look very happy. I also used her when I had a knee replacement and could not take the dogs walking for a couple weeks. She came by at about 6AM to walk them so I gave her a key as I do not get up that early so she would come in get them, walk them for an hour then let them back into my house. The dogs loved it and a couple days she had called the night before to tell me she would be a half hour late and the dogs would wake me up looking at me like where is Katie?? It is nice to know my dogs are so comfortable with someone they do not live with. I think we all think our dogs would be so heartbroken without us but during my life I have adopted several adult dogs or taken in dogs I found until I could find their owners and sorry to say they did not seem to grieve their owners; most have acted like they had always been with me.
Sure, there are dogs that grieve being away from owners but that makes me wonder if they had never been taught to spend time alone and had suffered major separation anxiety when apart from their owners?
I agree with the others about having the dogs get use to spending the time with either a sitter or at a kennel but doing overnights and or walks long before the trip. I love my dogs and they are family, but I have never considered them to be my kids as they are dogs not small humans in fur coats and are well adjusted because I see them as dogs.