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If you are among those caring owners that the dog retired? Never, never! Do not start unless you have the opportunity to bring your pet with you, and planned months in advance of your holiday exploring destinations and transportation fido-friendly, we offer some practical advice on how to move comfortably with your dog in tow. If traveling by car know that in Italy there is a specific article of the Highway Code which regulates the transport of animals in the car, lArt. 169, paragraph 6. You are allowed to carry one with your car and pet free in the cockpit, but in conditions that do not obstruct or endanger the driver. If you have a dog so you can calm them travel comfortably in the backseat. You must instead use a cage or a crate (of course in a convenient measure) if you have a dog very restless or want to carry more dogs at once, or you can put them in the rear, separated from the rest of the passenger with a net or grid ( found in pet shops or car accessory). In addition to meeting these rules, which are fundamental not only for the safety of animals being transported, but also for yours, you should also try to make the journey less traumatic for your dogmatic as possible.

Some helpful tips for your travels with Fido

Try to make the dog as a kitten get used to traveling in cars, starting with short strokes. If you are using a kennel, leave him at the disposal of your dog the day before, at home, causing it to become familiar with the subject: do not add up to the trauma of the first trip the shock of segregation in a container ever seen. Avoid him eat in 4-5 hours prior to travel. Always carry her bowl and some bottled water and take your dog to drink often, especially if you travel in a warm months. Adjust the temperature inside the car, so it is mild without departing too much from the outside (sayI like around 20 ° in winter and 25 ° in summer) and avoid them travel with her head out the window, because air strikes can cause ear infections and / or conjunctivitis. Stop often to stretch it, drinking and possibly dirty. There are marked boxes equipped on many highways, you can contact the toll of Autogrill 8oo-69069 to determine if the route you are going to face are present Fido Park areas (areas located outside of the catering outlets equipped, as well as running water, Gucci stores in the shade of a system for sanitizing spray for disinfection, and sometimes a large green area and dispenser of pallets and bags). Never leave your dog in 'car parked in the hot season, even with the windows down, because the car can be tragically transformed into a veritable oven. If the point dwhere you placed the dog beats a beautiful August sun direct shielded windows with the appropriate parasol. This may seem an excess of zeal but you must keep in mind that dogs do not sweat, find it hard to dissipate heat when body temperature rises. Dogs regulate the temperature through the evaporation of moisture only through the pads of the feet and mouth, areas are minimal in comparison to the size of the body, so they are easily susceptible to heat stroke. Attach the leash to the collar of the dog inside the car, never run the risk of opening the back door with the dog free and unfettered, the roads are dangerous places where the unpredictability of a dog can cause very serious damage. Not to endanger him and the cars that travel the road to which you stop, especially if you're on expressway sections. L'ideal is to let the dog leash attached to a fixed car, until you are ready to bring it down safely. In the market there are also special leashes that have a special buckle to be included in the universal bloccafibbia any safety belt. Allow your dog to make a comfortable journey: he has chosen him to move with a medium that does not know and that certainly makes him feel uncomfortable, and even if you decide to take it with you for purely emotional, on the grounds he can escape could live and travel as a half torture. Are commercially practical, inexpensive mattresses and latex foam, 5-10 cm high, which you can settle in the rear compartment if the dog does not travel in the kennel, so as to reduce the shocks and get more easily than the dog lie down and sleep. If you hold the seats of the car, cover the space where the dog will stay ong> with a plastic sheet (the perfect ones that are used to protect your furniture when whitening home) and maybe a linen cloth placed over the old, the dog will be comfortable and the seats protected from its tiny hairs really hard to clean up. Do everything you can shake vain music that resounds in the cockpit, curves and maneuvers to rally driver, sudden braking ... Basically everything that usually bothers to death the passenger who sits on your right, imagine what effect it can do for your puppy Nor has the tools vowels ( "Slow down!" "Careful!" "lower the volume!") to contain your exuberance behind the wheel. If your friend is no longer a puppy and maybe it comes from a kennel, have very, very patient in trying to get that behaves like a perfect passenger. It may be that combining l 'car to an unpleasant episode, maybe aabandonment. Ignore it if you cry or shake not reinforce a behavior you want to correct (to have the attention of the master is still a reinforcement, although the focus corresponds to a scolding) premiatelo every time you see him calm, be prepared to take this 'moment in which quiets and reinforced his behavior with a cuddle or a treat. When he does not leave him alone, that a car trip does not mean a new abandon, jump in the car before you, and happy to follow you halfway across the world.