Leaving your pet while you go on vacation can be very stressful. We all have many options. We can have pet sitters come to the house. We can bring them with us or we can put them in boarding.
Sometimes we don’t have a choice and we only have one option. No matter how well adjusted your animal is boarding is a very stressful environment for them. It’s full of dogs people in places they don’t know even if they’ve been before the dogs are changing so the energy in the boarding facility is also changing .
This means every time they go it feels different. You also have to remember that animals do not behave like their normal selves when they are in boarding. This doesn’t only apply to your pet but to all of the other animals that aren’t there. This can create more stress and more confusion. This can create unsafe situations, tension, or anxiety in animals.
It’s very hard for our pets when we leave for days because we are all they have. We are their entire life. As I have mentioned if we tell them where we are going and for how long it helps to ease a lot of of their anxiety.
If you are hiring a sitter or if you are sending them to a boarding location, it’s important to tell them so they know what’s going on. Tell them where they’re going when you will be back and when they will be picked up if they are at boarding.
Though it isn’t always possible, animals will do better in their home a place they know a place they feel safe and a place they’re comfortable. They will be able to smell your scent the entire time you’re gone if they stay at home.
If you must leave them, leave clothes that smell like you, so they feel comfort and know you have not abandoned them. Also, bringins things from home can help them know they are returning back home. And tell them you are coming back for them, and tell them when.
Leaving an animal requires extreme villigence on your part to make sure you are leaving them with somebody who will take a very best care of them. It is important to have camera cameras in your home and at the facility that you can check in on.
Animals may make mistakes when you’re gone because of the stress from you leaving it is important that you have somebody patient that shows them only love
And when possible, please leave your animals at home with somebody that you can trust 1000%. they will always have less stress in their home than in a boarding situation
