7/11 Summer Travel With Pets: Top Five Safety Tips

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Summer Travel With Pets: Top Five Safety Tips

The beginning of summer marks a difficult time for your car. It needs extra attention to keep extreme heat from damaging its engine, battery and other parts. Overheating is also a common and deadly hazard for pets traveling in cars.

The potential dangers of traveling with pets are getting more attention for a couple of reasons. The sluggish economy has made relatively frugal road trips more popular. Since cars tend to be more pet-friendly than some other forms of transportation, more people are taking their dogs, cats and other animals with them.

“People tend to say, ‘Hey, let’s take along the dog or cat,’” says Katherine Miller, an animal behaviorist with the ASPCA. But people often do not realize how stressful travel can be for animals who are not used to it, she says. The ASPCA has the following five tips to help keep the journey fun and safe for you and your pet.

The most important rule is: Never leave your pet in a parked car. Even when it doesn’t seem so hot outside the temperature inside a car can quickly rise past 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Contrary to common assumptions, opening windows a bit for ventilation doesn’t help much and leaving a pet unattended in a car can be dangerous even if it’s only for a few minutes.

Don’t allow your pet to ride with its head outside the window even though some dogs seem to love doing it. The dangers are many, from inner-ear damage to injuries from flying debris.

Keep animals secured in the car inside a ventilated animal crate or in a pet-safety harness.

Bring your own water in plastic containers. This is preferable to relying on water fountains and other unreliable sources along the way.

Avoid feeding pets in a moving vehicle. Instead feed them light meals three or so hours before hitting the road.

Questions:

1. Do you have pets? What pets do you like?

2. Are you planning to take a trip for the summer vacation?

3. When you travel, are you gonna bring your pets? If yes, how will you take care of them during travel? If not, how could you treat your pets when you are gone.

4. How do you think about the people who is with their pets at the public places?

5. What is bad thing to raise pets?

6. What is good point to raise pets?

7. What is the worst part of traveling with pets?

Summer Travel With Pets.hwp

[Vuitton(김소윤)]

토픽 고맙습니다^^일욜에 뵈용~~

[Michael(추제형)]

누나 수고하셨어요^^

[Daunte]

토픽고마워요 정말 시즌에 맞는 토픽이네요. Many thanks

[scott(박범석)]

와~애완동물 완전 좋아하는데 ㅎ!! 여태 못 길러서 아쉬웠음 ㅠㅠ 토픽 감사해요 ㅋ~

[Nicole(박노영)]

토픽 올리시느라 수고 많으셨어요~ 감사합니다~ 열심히 준비해서 일욜에 즐건 토론해욧 ㅋㅋ

[H-yub(김현엽)]

Thanks for the topic!

[Julia(김이레)]

토픽 감사해요~

[Daunte]

캬~아~ It's all about summer vacation.get me excited 좋은 펫 과 같이 푸른언덕에 배낭을 메고 시원한 바람 땡큐요