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Sometimes There's Side Eye - Episode 14: Traveling with Dogs! · Sometimes There's Side Eye

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  Welcome to Sometimes Their Side Eye, a podcast about two friends
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  having real and unfiltered conversations about dogs and
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  people. Listen as we talk about our
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  lives with dogs, training behavior, share some laughs and
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  a whole lot of banter. I'm Heather.
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  And I'm Christy. And we have a special guest to
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  talk with us about traveling with dogs, which I'm super
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  excited about. Yeah, today we have Tara
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  McKinney with us who is a fantastic foster, a savvy social
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  media presence, an awesome advocate, fierce fundraiser, and
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  honestly just an all around champion for senior dogs.
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  We are so excited to have you here, Tara.
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  Yay, welcome. Tara, thank.
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  You. So much for having me.
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  I'm very excited. This just happens to be my
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  favorite subject and thank you so much for inviting me on.
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  So traveling with dogs has kind of evolved from other things I
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  was into for 12 years I have been fostering dogs and I would
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  say about eight years ago that kind of turned into Phil
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  fostering, but adopting a lot of senior dogs.
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  And our household since then has typically had right around 7
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  senior dogs. And of course they're older, so
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  it's a bit of a rotating crew. Lots of different personalities,
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  lots of different needs. And it can make traveling so fun
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  and a little tricky too. So I'm excited to share all of
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  my little tricks and hints and ideas for traveling.
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  I've had to solve a lot of different problems.
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  On the road. So I am so excited to share.
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  But yes, currently we do have seven and we do have one young
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  one right now, five. Everyone else is over the age of
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  11. Wow, that's awesome.
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  And most of them are big dogs, or at least medium sized dogs,
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  right? Yeah, in between 50 and 75
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  pounds. And we do have one little right
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  now, maybe £20 a CHI. A chichi.
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  A chichi. Got to keep it interesting.
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  Someone. Is going to be the boss.
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  It's going to be the small dog, right?
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  Exactly. That's awesome.
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  The cool thing is Heather and I know Tara through rescue.
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  Also, little side note, I was following Tara on social media
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  before I ever met her in person. So I remember Tara back when you
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  only had Wally, your best friend, just one dog and only
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  fostered. And so I've watched that
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  progression and then I got to meet you in person and you were
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  as cool. In person, as on social media,
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  even cooler, I would say it's hard to believe it's true.
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  What's really funny is that I met Tara in person because of
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  COVID. This is that's weird And you
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  were having outside sort of bonfires to let everybody social
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  distance on your property and still have a little connection
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  with fellow canine people and I went to one of your bonfires and
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  that's where we met in person for the first time.
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  So that's a really. Beautiful thing, I think that we
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  all needed, actually. Yes, yes, that definitely.
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  I loved it too. I want to hear about you
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  traveling with dogs. So.
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  Yes. And I have to say also, Heather
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  just found out this last weekend when we traveled with our own
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  dogs that my dog had never been in a hotel in Travesty last
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  weekend. So I knew I was not the person
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  to present this information, but I didn't know I was like a
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  travel episode would be so fun. I'm clearly not that person
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  because at 12 years old, she went to her first hotel.
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  Oh, yeah, yeah. And and listen, I was a little
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  slow on, you know, getting around to doing all the
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  traveling as well. I've always been a traveler, but
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  I can tell you exactly when I went overboard with it, maybe
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  when I went off the deep end into traveling with dogs,
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  there's a little story behind it.
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  It was 2015 in December when we adopted our first two senior
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  dogs. They were a bonded pair later.
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  I would say later that year, but it was the end of 2015, so I
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  need to say 2016. We adopted a senior senior like
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  a dog named Grandpa. He came with that name.
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  No, OK. You can imagine.
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  We picked him up and he looked ratched.
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  He looked like. He probably wouldn't be with us
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  very long. He stunk to high heaven.
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  We just didn't think he was going to be with us for very
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  long at all And we got him some medical care, some dental care
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  and he started to come to life. His allergies got better.
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  We started treating him for valley fever and really he came
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  with this big personality punch. And when I say his personality
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  was like you palpable in a room, let me explain.
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  I would take him to the vet and. The girls behind the desk, you
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  would maybe think you might get this for a puppy, but the girls
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  behind the desk would start screaming as if Justin Bieber
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  had walked in and holding their chest like we were, like it was.
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  It was an incredible thing to watch, a really fun thing to
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  watch, but I felt it. You could feel his energy.
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  He had swag, but I still babyed him a little bit and we didn't.
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  I thought, there's no way Grandpa can do this.
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  There's no way Grandpa could do that well.
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  Grandpa went ahead and got very sick, to the point where I
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  thought this might be our goodbye and it just happened to
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  be the same week that I had to drive to San Diego for a family
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  member's wedding and I just thought, what am I going to do
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  here? My solution ended up being have
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  someone stay at her house with the rest of the dogs and I would
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  take Grandpa with me. That way if anything was going
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  down, I was right there by his side.
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  I would take him to a vet there. I got that all set up.
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  I got a dog friendly Airbnb. Instead of staying staying with
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  family I did have to take him to the vet.
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  One time while we were there he got some nausea medication and
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  eventually I thought I'm I'm going to take him to the beach
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  to get a little air this dog. Now I'm convinced he was trying
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  to fake his own death because he came to life.
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  He is trotting down the beach. He doesn't hear me say his name
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  anymore. He has his chin up.
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  He has his flipper paws flapping.
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  Everybody's turning their head looking at this guy, like the
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  crust melted off of his nose. It was like the fountain of
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  youth, and I could barely get him off that beach.
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  And that very day I told my husband.
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  I don't care if I have to leave town without you or what it
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  takes. I'm going to get this dog back
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  to the beach as much as I possibly can until his last day
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  here. And that's exactly what I did
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  and I was at that beach with the dog like I would say once or
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  twice a month for the next year and a half until he actually
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  did. And his not his very last day
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  but his second to last day he was on the beach and.
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  I like the things that this dog could do all of a sudden, was
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  what inspired me to start testing the waters with all of
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  my dogs and not assume that they just needed to be coddled inside
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  of the house. And that was when really, I feel
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  like my whole life changed and there's I feel like I'm a
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  better. Senior dog parent or, you know,
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  guardian or whatever you would like to call it, because that's
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  what we do. We just, we run until we can't
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  run anymore. But I definitely take on some
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  things that are borderline insane just to get my dogs to
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  wherever they need to be, having ones with sometimes special
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  needs, as in dog reactivity. So I have to get really creative
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  on where I'm going to. Go so they actually have a good
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  time. And I'm not just doing this for
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  me. I want to be traveling for my
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  dogs, catering to them, not pressuring them to do things and
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  pushing them to do things where they're uncomfortable.
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  So it takes some. Little creativity, little
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  research. Yeah, I have definitely seen the
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  years come away from a senior dog that you adopt and it is
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  such an amazing experience to see them get younger every day
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  that they're with you. It's such a cool experience to
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  be a part of and it fills your heart differently.
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  Yes, yeah, it's very much a different feeling, but like the
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  best feeling. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  And so you started with one dog traveling and what's the most
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  dogs you've taken in one trip? 7.
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  Seven. Oh yeah, of course, why not?
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  So casually 7/7. So there was like a little bit
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  of there's a little special stuff you have to do with Seven,
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  and unless you're going to stay at your Airbnb all day, you need
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  to account for all of the different personalities and all
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  of the different needs. I don't prefer to leave dogs
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  alone at Airbnb's if I can help it, but definitely not like a
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  large portion of that size of a crew.
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  So what I have done in the past that has worked out really well
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  for me is I scope out local Rover dog sitters and.
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  I feel pretty comfortable leaving the dogs with a Rover
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  sitter because what I'm doing is very different than leaving for
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  like a week or two and leaving my dogs behind.
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  I'm right there. I'm just letting them know, hey,
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  I'm going to be coming in and out and I'm going to be
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  switching out dogs all day so these two can go to the beach
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  with me. These two are good at a
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  restaurant. These two would love to take a
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  walk in this park. This one's going to need a
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  wagon, so we'll do hand, you know, that kind of thing.
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  So I'm in constant communication with them all day.
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  They have been easy to book and fairly affordable considering
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  what boarding costs. My dogs have loved it and it
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  allows me to take everyone and have everyone be there safe.
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  But they all get their little pieces of adventure while we're
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  somewhere new. That is genius.
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  I know it's such a creative solution.
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  Like, it's so straightforward and yet I'm like, man, I would
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  have never thought of that. No, it makes complete sense.
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  And also the dogs get the experience of hanging out with
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  someone else, so that's. In which they also love, yeah.
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  They have, they don't have separation anxiety.
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  They have FOMO. So they as long as they're there
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  and they're getting some kind of new experience whether that be
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  going in the car with us to the beach or.
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  Hanging out with a new person at the Airbnb?
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  They're fine. They don't care about anything
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  except missing out. And then you're also being
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  because most Airbnb's, even the ones that accept dogs, they
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  don't want you just to leave a bunch of dogs behind.
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  If I ever because I stayed Airbnb's with my dogs as well
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  and if I'm in a situation I always make sure it's okay if I
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  leave them behind and they're crated and that would be like if
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  I go to dinner or something like that.
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  But in general we want to follow whatever the.
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  The B&B rules are so I love that creative.
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  Solution. And in some counties, believe it
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  or not, there's actually a renter laws.
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  And I believe this might be around here, maybe a California
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  thing. But for example, my last trip we
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  stopped up into Sonoma County. Sonoma County actually has a law
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  that renters are not allowed to leave their animals in Airbnb's
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  at all alone. Alone.
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  Yeah, indoor or outdoor. And I think when it comes down
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  to is using your common sense, did I leave my dog and the
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  Airbnb alone for a little while? I did because I had four with
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  me. The rule exists to keep
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  neighbors happy. And so as long as you are pretty
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  confident or you have maybe a ring camera and you're close by
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  and you can spy on your dog and make sure.
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  There's not a bunch of noise and that's why the rules there.
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  And I am a little bit of a rule Bender, but what I like to do is
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  think about what they're asking you to do and are you able to
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  bend the rule but still get the end goal?
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  They don't want to upset the neighbors.
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  That's all there is to that one. And to be honest, because I have
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  traveled with my Rottweiler since he was a puppy all over.
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  Everywhere. You're not even supposed to
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  leave your dog behind in a hotel room, So technically that's a
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  rule too. And like in my case with Tiago,
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  he's excellent in a hotel. He grew up going to hotels.
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  He's great in a crate. So yeah, I'll leave him behind
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  in a hotel room, but I'll turn on the TV, make sure the outside
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  noise is cut off as much as possible.
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  And I know he's not being loud and, you know, making noise.
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  My bulldog. Maybe not as often would I do
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  that because, well, Bulldog, but I think I think that makes sense
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  and we want to be respectful of the places that we're visiting.
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  Yeah, for sure. Because if we really, truly love
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  traveling with our dogs, we want other people to also travel with
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  their dogs. We don't want to do anything to
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  upset a host enough that they would make it not possible for
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  the next person. Absolutely respect there.
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  Another way that I've kind of gotten around that as well.
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  Instead of hiring a Rover sitter, sometimes I just invite
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  other people to come a lot of times when I'm asking for a dog
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  friendly Airbnb. And when I say dog friendly, I
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  mean they can't have a fee for every single dog.
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  I will never be able to afford it.
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  They can't have any breed restriction and they can't have
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  a number, right. So they'll say dog friendly and
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  they don't give any other specifics.
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  I don't ask permission for seven.
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  I just say like okay, Well, me and my pack of dogs are
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  traveling, you know, and hope they don't say anything.
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  And if they don't, then we're there.
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  Usually those houses or townhomes or whatever it is,
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  they're usually bigger than what I need.
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  So I usually end up with a room I'm just shutting off and not
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  using. So in those scenarios, I ask
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  around, Hey, do you want a free vacation?
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  All you have to do is these couple times.
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  I did this for a wedding. I said, oh, would you like to
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  hang out in Long Beach for four days free of charge?
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  I'll even drive you there. All you have to do is.
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  Make sure my dogs don't do anything stupid for like, these
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  four hours. Well, hell yeah.
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  Yep. And it's a bonus for everybody,
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  so there's a couple ways to get around it for sure.
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  I like it. And so what's the longest you've
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  traveled with your dogs? Like distance wise and time
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  wise? Well, two weeks is time wise and
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  distance wise would be pretty much to the Canadian border.
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  There is a National Park up there and it now, of course, I
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  don't remember what it's called, but it is in Washington and it's
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  one of the very least traveled national parks in the US, but
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  beautiful. And the reason I went there was
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  because I had my dog, reactive dog with me.
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  So I went to the least visited National Park on a Monday.
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  And I'm going to tell you what, we had a great time.
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  We have to do all the things. That sounds like magic.
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  Yeah, but that was a that's a 24 hour drive to get there.
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  We've also been weighed on the like Corpus Christi, Padre
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  Island, Texas, which is a very long drive as well, but that
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  drive was technically shorter. But that one I had seven dogs.
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  The one the 24 hour drive I had three very capable dogs.
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  So it was it seemed shorter. Perspective, yes.
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  Yeah. Also, when you drive across
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  Texas, it takes forever, so I feel like that.
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  Absolutely nothing ever changes. What what prep do you do for
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  taking your reactive dog? So I know you said that you do
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  some research, So what kind of research do you do?
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  So I do my best. You can't prepare for
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  everything, but I just try to find isolated places and then
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  sometimes I stay near them. And sometimes I drive to them
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  and there's a few people and a few dogs and we just turn around
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  and go back and try again later. Honestly, sometimes it's a
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  little bit like that you might think you're going to go and do
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  something and you're not going to go and do something.
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  And it's not that I can't control my dog that is reactive.
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  The problem is, is I want this to be a good experience for him.
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  And once he sees a dog, and of course he lives with seven as
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  well. So we're not talking dog
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  reactive in the home. I'm talking out and about.
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  If he sees one in the car, he sees one on the leash.
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  He immediately starts to have this like very anxious stance,
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  panting, whining, and it only gets worse and worse.
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  So if he sees a couple dogs in the beginning of an outing, it's
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  going to take a very long time for him to chill out and he's
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  not having fun and that's not the point.
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  So I I have not taken him on a million trips, but the ones I've
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  taken him on, sometimes we are doing some circles and some
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  dipping in here and there and I'm running out of the car and
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  scoping. Are we good here, you know?
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  I love that you just honor who he is instead of trying to be
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  like, OK, we're going to make this work because I drove 24
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  hours. Yeah, well, I, you know, I did
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  that when I was younger. With him.
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  He's the, he is the OG dog. He's the dog that has been with
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  me for 12 years, the only one. So I did try that.
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  I tried to do that when I was younger and I regret that now.
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  Honestly, he never did change. We of course did every training
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  in the world. I would have loved for him to go
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  to every restaurant and every, you know, thing with me, but
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  it's not him so. It's so much more of a relaxing
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  relationship now that I stopped trying to force him to do things
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  that he does not like. Which is what we are going for,
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  yeah, with our dogs, yeah. Just stop.
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  Just stop. I think that's a lot actually.
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  Just like not to do with travels, but just to do with
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  dogs in general. I think my best piece of advice
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  would be meet your dog where they're at and your relationship
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  will be better. Yeah, absolutely.
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  When you are traveling, what's your normal kind of routine?
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  Okay. Now here's where I did make a
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  small list, because, you know, I did not want to forget this.
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  I mean, it's complicated. I think about this for days, and
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  as you know, each day that goes by, I'm checking off what I've
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  done on a whiteboard, making sure I didn't screw anything up.
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  Okay. So the boring stuff.
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  But important because you don't want to end up in a worst case
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  scenario, which in my mind would be your dog is missing and
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  you're not even in your own state or town.
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  You have a medical emergency and you have not prepared at all.
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  Or you have because we live in Arizona.
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  Car trouble in the heat and I try to of course avoid driving
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  and when it's 120 degrees out with dogs in the car.
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  But we have a decently long summer here.
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  It is extremely hot until you're talking, it's hot until five
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  hours, and you're trying to escape the heat with your dogs
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  to give them a break. So we do, of course do it, but
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  it terrifies me. Here's what I have for all those
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  things, which I think is kind of common sense, but also maybe
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  there's a couple I have in there that might get you update your
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  dog's vaccinations before you go and update their tags and their
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  microchips and make sure that they have a secure collar.
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  I did lose one of my dogs on one of my trips and I never really
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  told anybody about it and I don't.
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  I don't hide anything. Just was like we were in the
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  middle of traveling and I was busy doing 1000 other things and
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  I didn't feel like I needed to go and tell everybody that Bubs
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  ran away. We had an Airbnb up in Arrowhead
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  Lake and we do a Halloween themed or like a horror themed
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  photo shoot every year with all the dogs.
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  And we got this Airbnb that had a enclosed yard, but it was
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  enclosed I would say for the big dogs.
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  But Bubs is our 20 pounder and he was fairly new to us.
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  He sticks around I guess The door was left ajar, the sliding
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  door just the tiniest bit for some air to come through and I
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  don't know why, but I woke up at midnight.
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  And I thought the last thing that had happened was he had
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  tried to get on the bed with us and I told him he couldn't.
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  And I think at that moment he must have packed his bags and
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  started trotting down the street like okay.
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  I will find someone else, yeah. So go find a new family.
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  He was like he looked offended and I am pretty sure that he
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  hatefully like left the house. But we're in the area where
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  there's coyotes and large birds. And everything else.
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  And to be perfectly candid, a lot of people with outdoor type
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  of animals, not so much indoor. I I was looking for him at
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  midnight. I couldn't find him.
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  Just like I had had that nightmare and I looked at my
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  phone and I was already getting. I had already missed like
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  several calls and messages. Someone had them and they took
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  him inside because they were also worried.
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  Even though their dogs are outdoor dogs.
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  They said he was too small, so I brought them inside.
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  I mean, I just felt like I dodged a bullet.
• 22:14
  And I also thought he was so new to us that I thought, Oh my God,
• 22:19
  what if I didn't update that tag and put a good collar on him?
• 22:24
  I look every single time now. Sometimes I even put two tags on
• 22:29
  sometimes. I'm a little crazy about it now,
• 22:30
  but that was very scary. Yeah, that was very scary.
• 22:34
  Also, the car situation, you need a reliable vehicle.
• 22:39
  If that means you have to rent one, then that's what you have
• 22:42
  to do. I suggest go and get an oil
• 22:45
  change because they will also check your tire pressure.
• 22:48
  They will also check your windshield wipers, which I know
• 22:51
  sounds very. Strange, but if you live in
• 22:54
  Arizona, your windshield wipers shred in the desert heat and you
• 22:58
  don't even know it. And then if you are all of a
• 23:00
  sudden in Oregon and it's pouring rain and you're using
• 23:04
  your windshield wipers for the first time in months and all
• 23:07
  this plastic just shreds on your windshield and you're on the
• 23:09
  freeway with your seven dogs and you can't see it's.
• 23:13
  It's not ideal. What?
• 23:14
  You would have wished you had those looked at, yeah?
• 23:18
  Terror. Spoken like somebody who has,
• 23:20
  has. Has had that experience, yeah.
• 23:23
  I've kind of had like, it wasn't really exactly that.
• 23:25
  I had that experience on my own, but I pictured myself with the
• 23:29
  seven dogs in the car having a meltdown.
• 23:32
  If you are having to drive across one of those freeways,
• 23:35
  that goes for hours and hours and you don't have great
• 23:39
  reception and you don't have a backup plan.
• 23:42
  If your car breaks down, there are Mr. systems that you can
• 23:46
  charge. There are charging.
• 23:48
  Or plug in like battery packs For camping, I would suggest
• 23:52
  having one fully charged with water with frozen bottles of
• 23:56
  water and triple-A. It's honestly so cheap compared
• 24:01
  to what you can get. Somebody will come and save you.
• 24:06
  You know somebody will come and save you because I don't know
• 24:09
  what else would you do. Call 911.
• 24:11
  Yeah, tell them you're having a heart attack and you need to put
• 24:13
  your dogs. If it was hot.
• 24:15
  Enough maybe. I mean, seriously, I probably
• 24:17
  would. Yeah, so if a listener is not
• 24:21
  able to afford AAA on the regular, check with your
• 24:24
  insurance. I know my insurance has.
• 24:27
  I like put on for like a buck a month of.
• 24:29
  Insurance. That's what I do too, because
• 24:31
  it's cheaper. And the annually, yeah and they
• 24:33
  are on it. And make yourself some friends
• 24:37
  along the way. And let them know what you're
• 24:39
  doing. Hey, are you going to be home?
• 24:41
  You're the closest friend to me at this position.
• 24:43
  Like if I get into some trouble, can you help me?
• 24:47
  Because I'm traveling with all the dogs.
• 24:49
  I've also done that. I do phone a friend all the
• 24:51
  time. I drove a survivor from this 367
• 24:55
  Actually dog fighting bust from Jacksonville to Arizona by
• 25:00
  myself years ago and. I had plotted out friends along
• 25:07
  the way to meet up with my one friend actually, because it was
• 25:12
  last minute, the dogs transport just became available and it was
• 25:16
  like I was like, I'll drive her. So it was sort of last minute
• 25:19
  and I called my friend in Louisiana.
• 25:22
  Literally, I'm driving in the car, I'm like, hey, I got an old
• 25:26
  lady Pitbull in my car and I'm just wondering if I can stop and
• 25:30
  let her go potty on your front lawn.
• 25:33
  Yes, like. I need nothing else from you.
• 25:36
  And she was like, of course I hadn't seen her in like 10 years
• 25:40
  since. She was not sure.
• 25:42
  That is me. That is what I do.
• 25:44
  I also make friends online that I've never met and I definitely
• 25:48
  have no stranger danger and just stop randomly.
• 25:52
  People's houses. OK, you're braver than I am.
• 25:55
  I usually pick people that I already know, but fair enough.
• 25:59
  Oh, I have no shame, no shame in my game.
• 26:01
  I don't know. Nothing bad's happened yet.
• 26:04
  She's also traveling with seven dogs, so I feel like you're
• 26:08
  relatively safe. Yeah, I was traveling with a 25
• 26:12
  year old Pitbull who was like, you know, I'll.
• 26:15
  Rickety and yeah. She was not going to help you.
• 26:18
  No, no, It's really funny that you bring up maintenance in your
• 26:22
  car because we're going on a trip and I literally took our
• 26:26
  vehicle for an oil change today, got the air filter checked, got
• 26:30
  the tires, like the whole thing. So it cracks me up because I'm
• 26:34
  like, Oh yes, you did it too, you.
• 26:35
  Did it right before our trip to California.
• 26:37
  There you go. Yeah, every time I do and I'm
• 26:41
  yeah, I feel better, you know, Of course.
• 26:43
  I mean, something could go wrong, of course, but that I
• 26:46
  feel way more secure knowing somebody looked at my car and
• 26:50
  they didn't see anything crazy. I feel like us living in Arizona
• 26:54
  that we do have that fear of the heat and what it can do to our
• 26:57
  vehicles, so we might be a little bit more over the top
• 27:01
  about being careful. We might be, yeah.
• 27:04
  But I've had batteries die on me for like.
• 27:07
  Seemingly no reason. And it's just this summer is
• 27:11
  brutal. I also carry the chargers and
• 27:15
  then I have everything to change a tire.
• 27:17
  And I know how to change a tire. And guys, if you don't know how
• 27:20
  to change a tire, it's actually really easy.
• 27:23
  And also if you're a single chick looking to try to find
• 27:27
  some dudes. So change the tire on the side
• 27:29
  of the road if you don't need it.
• 27:31
  I swear I've not in like so many beep beep like, hey, do you need
• 27:34
  some help? I could have.
• 27:35
  I could have caught me a husband off the side of the street, I
• 27:38
  swear. But quality.
• 27:40
  Yeah. Make sure you have a Jack.
• 27:43
  Have an extra tire that's good, and have this stuff to change it
• 27:46
  and have the battery charger important.
• 27:50
  It's important I think. But that's like, you know that's
• 27:52
  kind of the boring stuff also that records.
• 27:56
  Bring them with you or have access, even if you don't have
• 27:59
  Wi-Fi. I love.
• 28:01
  And no, there's going to be some people that don't agree with me
• 28:04
  because I think that PetSmart has had some bad press about
• 28:10
  some places they're grooming has a Pitbull.
• 28:13
  They won't take Pitbull. Oh, I think it's actually it's
• 28:16
  their doggy daycare. Yeah.
• 28:18
  Oh, daycare, Okay, daycare. Because I was going to say
• 28:20
  because they actually gave me a discount on my pities because
• 28:23
  they have short hair, I don't know, like pity discount day.
• 28:26
  So Okay, just the daycare. So that upset a lot of people to
• 28:31
  the point where they won't even go to PetSmart for anything
• 28:35
  inside of PetSmart is Banfield. Now Banfield, I've been using,
• 28:40
  that's that's their veterinary. Thing there.
• 28:42
  So they have it in every single PetSmart.
• 28:44
  So now we're talking, we're not just talking your local that
• 28:47
  we're talking state to state to state.
• 28:51
  They also have multiple plans. It's not insurance but what it
• 28:55
  is is a preventative plans cool thing to have if you have dogs
• 28:59
  that don't really qualify for insurance.
• 29:03
  Seniors, I mean, they do qualify, but you, I've tried it
• 29:06
  and then it will not work out well for us.
• 29:09
  The other thing is they can transfer all of your dogs
• 29:12
  records. If I leave Arizona and I need
• 29:14
  some help and I'm in Idaho and I go to a Banfield there, they're
• 29:19
  more likely to get me in. They're really pretty good about
• 29:21
  it. It's going to be a free visit
• 29:23
  and they're going to have everything on record.
• 29:25
  So if I'm going to panic and I can't remember anything and I
• 29:27
  don't have my stuff, they have it.
• 29:29
  I kind of recommend maybe even just popping in there to get
• 29:33
  your dog established there so that that's an option for you if
• 29:38
  you want to travel a lot with your pet.
• 29:40
  And they have good hours. So might be something as an
• 29:43
  option for somebody as like a backup bet if it wasn't even
• 29:47
  what they wanted to use as a primary.
• 29:49
  That if they do travel a lot that they could get established
• 29:53
  in a Banfield. So that if they're in traveled
• 29:55
  Arizona to Pennsylvania and something happens, they can pop
• 29:59
  in and the records are all on file and it's ready to go.
• 30:03
  I don't think there's a state without a PetSmart, right?
• 30:06
  Yeah, and I. Don't know of anywhere.
• 30:08
  Does every PetSmart have a Banfield?
• 30:10
  I was trying to think. I am almost sure.
• 30:13
  I am almost positive, yeah. Wow.
• 30:16
  Yeah, and I've really had nothing but extremely positive.
• 30:21
  Great experiences with them. Fill your gas tank frequently.
• 30:27
  Yes. OK, this is a real this is a
• 30:31
  rule that I have when I travel with dogs.
• 30:33
  If you stop, everyone pees. Everyone gets out and stretches
• 30:39
  their legs and then we fill the gas tank.
• 30:43
  Everybody gets snacks like you do everything every time you.
• 30:46
  So you just get the whole gamut done and then you move on.
• 30:52
  Yeah, get it taken care of, I use.
• 30:54
  I'm someone who has habitually run out of gas.
• 30:57
  Not with dogs, but I have. We are kindred spirits.
• 31:01
  What do I do that I don't know, So when I travel with the dogs,
• 31:04
  I now look at my half tank mark. And I have a big I have a big
• 31:08
  van so it could it. You could probably be a little
• 31:10
  more lenient if you have a more efficient vehicle.
• 31:14
  I look at my half tank as fill it up just do it.
• 31:17
  So then if I'm a little late I'm.
• 31:20
  Still. Okay, yeah, I've got traps.
• 31:23
  So the last time I ran out of gas it was a dog trip with no
• 31:26
  dog. I can't believe I got so lucky.
• 31:29
  There's a stretch on the I-10 that is 60 miles long and I
• 31:32
  missed because a semi truck was in my way, missed the gas exit
• 31:36
  that I needed and I sure did run out of gas with a 16 year old in
• 31:40
  my car. That is not my child because I
• 31:42
  don't have those. And I had to hitchhike with her
• 31:45
  and explain to her how are we going to survive if when we
• 31:49
  hitchhike and get in someone's vehicle to drive us to this gas
• 31:52
  station? This is how you roll out of the
• 31:54
  car. I was like, don't wait until
• 31:56
  they go off on like side roads. And then you you just open that
• 31:59
  door and you just talk and roll. Girl, I was like, not this.
• 32:03
  And it's so stupid. I can't believe I did that.
• 32:05
  But yeah, I did. I missed.
• 32:07
  It did you have AAA then? No, but I do now.
• 32:11
  Do now I do. Now I got AAA.
• 32:15
  Fair enough. And that Wasn't that the last?
• 32:18
  Moment I You should have roadside assistance, everyone.
• 32:23
  And I remember a trip that I went on with.
• 32:25
  Luckily, it was just my best friend and I.
• 32:27
  And we started to leave town. And I was like, oh, I'll fill up
• 32:30
  before we leave town. And then we forgot.
• 32:33
  And so we're like probably 20 minutes outside of town.
• 32:37
  And I was like, hey, can you. I know there's a gas station up
• 32:40
  here. Can we just make sure that?
• 32:41
  I just want to make sure how far it is.
• 32:44
  I would say it was within like 50 miles.
• 32:47
  And my gas gauge said I had 85 miles.
• 32:51
  So plenty. And I said, I don't know why,
• 32:54
  but I'm just uncomfortable with this.
• 32:56
  Do you mind if we drive 20 minutes back to town and like,
• 33:00
  get gas and like, go again, I'm so sorry.
• 33:03
  She was like, it's fine, better safe than that gas station was
• 33:06
  closed because it was during the pandemic.
• 33:10
  It would have been 120 miles to the next gas station.
• 33:14
  That was That's a gut. That is a gut.
• 33:18
  So, Phillip, often I like this, yes.
• 33:22
  Yeah, My gosh. Yeah.
• 33:24
  And that gas station for me, I missed.
• 33:26
  I mean, I missed it like I couldn't get over to get off.
• 33:29
  I knew it was gonna be a problem.
• 33:30
  I didn't know it was gonna be that bad.
• 33:32
  Also. I did sure turn around, but.
• 33:35
  My miles said I had enough to make it to the gas station and
• 33:38
  we still put it out five miles early, so.
• 33:42
  Yeah, yeah. Never trust that because you
• 33:44
  never know when they're going to malfunction.
• 33:45
  So I do not. I don't like that thing I have.
• 33:49
  We don't want to push that too far, especially when we have 16
• 33:52
  year olds or dogs in the car. Yeah.
• 33:57
  See. I told her you can tell your
• 33:59
  mom. I'm not asking you to lie, but
• 34:01
  if you do tell her, she's probably never going to let you
• 34:04
  hang out with me again. So you make your decision.
• 34:06
  What you want to do, that's. So funny.
• 34:09
  But if your mom doesn't ask, maybe don't tell you.
• 34:13
  Girl, I'm not asking you to do anything that makes you
• 34:15
  uncomfortable, but that's. So funny.
• 34:19
  For safety, yeah, I do believe I have one more and I I think this
• 34:22
  is also very important. And this also goes with keeping
• 34:26
  your Airbnb's tidy and everything is having like a
• 34:29
  really nice first aid kit for your dogs.
• 34:32
  Yes. They do the dumbest shit while
• 34:35
  they're traveling. They all of a sudden start
• 34:37
  bleeding from a toenail, bleeding from a little, a
• 34:40
  little, you know, blister on their leg or and my Lord, I
• 34:45
  can't tell you how many. Mistakes I have made with the
• 34:49
  with like ruining sheets and stuff like that, just like
• 34:51
  they're always bleeding. I don't know what is the deal.
• 34:54
  They're not doing it here. As soon as we leave, somebody is
• 34:57
  bleeding from somewhere. So we have bandaids, we have
• 35:01
  wound care, cleansing stuff. So if you don't know my work
• 35:06
  background, I was. In healthcare for 22 years and
• 35:11
  an emergency room technician, I know a thing or two about wound
• 35:14
  care. It can honestly even be an empty
• 35:17
  syringe that you take. It's about volume and pressure,
• 35:21
  so if you have an open wound, you are going to want to port
• 35:26
  that water into it. I have a pressurized wound
• 35:30
  cleansing like almost like a gun.
• 35:32
  I just get it off Amazon. I have a splint roll in case
• 35:35
  somebody is broken something you know I hope that never happens
• 35:39
  cuz like but Ace wrap and Coban is a is another wrap that sticks
• 35:46
  on itself and you can do a compression to get things to
• 35:48
  stop bleeding. You want to do compression and
• 35:50
  like a ton of antibiotic ointment.
• 35:53
  My other favorite is the Quick stop.
• 35:57
  So like if you, yeah, if you cut a dog's nail too short, they can
• 36:02
  bleed from there quick and it will not stop.
• 36:06
  And unless you have this powder and you dip their toes in it.
• 36:11
  So I have elderly dogs that when they're getting all this
• 36:14
  exercise that they're not normally getting, they do
• 36:17
  sometimes drag their back feet a bit and so I have to have dog
• 36:23
  boots. Even if I don't think I'm
• 36:25
  needing them or expecting to need them.
• 36:27
  And the quick stop because I have had dogs walk so much and
• 36:32
  scrape their nails so much on the sidewalk that it's like a
• 36:35
  bloodbath that won't quit and I just pluck their paw right in
• 36:39
  there. Problem solved.
• 36:41
  Yeah, the first time that we ever stayed at an Airbnb with
• 36:45
  all of our dogs, Remy was still with us, who was our one pity,
• 36:49
  and she cut the inside of her cheek.
• 36:53
  On a marrow bone, they were out on the deck and all I knew was
• 36:57
  that there was blood everywhere and I didn't know where it was
• 36:59
  coming from. And you know how it is when you
• 37:01
  have multiple dogs. We had four dogs with us.
• 37:03
  So you got four dogs and you're like running around trying to
• 37:05
  pick up feet, look at tails, like who's eating, where's it
• 37:09
  coming from? And I'm like going through every
• 37:11
  dog, trying to figure it out. All of a sudden I realized it's
• 37:14
  the white on her mouth and her chest was red.
• 37:16
  And I'm like, what happened here?
• 37:18
  She had somehow cut inside her mouth and we had to figure out
• 37:24
  and Oh my gosh, when I realized how much blood was everywhere, I
• 37:29
  was like, I take towels and blankets when I go travel with
• 37:32
  dogs. So I was able to clean it up.
• 37:34
  But I agree, I mean, some kind of first aid situation and extra
• 37:38
  towels. You're never going to go wrong.
• 37:41
  Yeah, if you don't have it. That's when something goes down.
• 37:45
  For sure. So those are like my kind of
• 37:47
  more boring safety things. Safety is always good.
• 37:51
  I think the other thing that's important for me is the Airbnb
• 37:57
  cleanliness, per se. I truly feel that the reason I'm
• 38:01
  able to travel with so many dogs so often is because I have 42
• 38:08
  pristine ratings on Airbnb. Yep.
• 38:12
  Trust me, I have had incidences. So it comes down to
• 38:16
  communicating with your host and letting them know what happened.
• 38:20
  If something did break or something out of the ordinary
• 38:23
  happen, communicate with them right away.
• 38:26
  But I also do a ton of prep before I even let the dogs in
• 38:29
  and I'm talking. I have made this mistake so many
• 38:32
  times that I am done with it. Now it's the bedding because I
• 38:35
  they sleep in the bed. So even if they're not allowed
• 38:38
  or go on the furniture or sleep in the beds, I'm not stopping
• 38:41
  them. Like.
• 38:43
  Literally impossible. Yes, it is impossible.
• 38:47
  So if you think that you let your dogs on furniture and in
• 38:51
  bed at home and that you're going to stop them from doing it
• 38:54
  at a rental, you are incorrect. So the best thing that you can
• 38:59
  do is what I do is roll up every carpet, and if it's way too big
• 39:04
  to roll up then I cover it with something waterproof.
• 39:07
  And I found something really good on Amazon.
• 39:09
  And you know, I love this conversation, so I will make
• 39:13
  something on my Instagram that people can go to in the
• 39:16
  highlights that has literally everything we're talking about
• 39:18
  on here. So.
• 39:20
  That you can find the links to, purchase them yourself or see
• 39:24
  what I'm talking about. Kind of a waterproof blanket
• 39:26
  situation. I have a ton of them.
• 39:28
  I cover the entirety of the couch, the entirety of the rugs
• 39:32
  that I can't move. I take a photo of the Airbnb
• 39:36
  before I move anything because they want that place left how it
• 39:40
  came. They don't want it in shambles.
• 39:42
  I take every cushion and every pillow that I possibly can and I
• 39:46
  hide it somewhere up where they cannot reach it.
• 39:49
  I take the entire bed apart and I put all my own linens on it
• 39:53
  and Oh yeah, that's the one I highly recommend the most.
• 39:57
  That's the one I have regretted every single time when I didn't
• 40:01
  do a full bed change. Including comforter.
• 40:05
  Not only that, I would maybe take one of those waterproof.
• 40:08
  They're not even crunchy or anything.
• 40:09
  They literally feel like a yeah, I would put it under because my
• 40:14
  dog, some of them have hemangiomas on their legs and
• 40:18
  they will just burst and start bleeding in the middle of the
• 40:20
  night and it goes through and hits the mattress.
• 40:24
  I've had that happen multiple times.
• 40:26
  That's a problem. So.
• 40:28
  Just go in, wreck that whole place, put everything away.
• 40:31
  I look at look around and say if this was my home, what would I
• 40:35
  be concerned that these dogs would ruin.
• 40:37
  Even if you don't think your dogs pee inside, they might you
• 40:41
  don't know because there's a bunch of other dogs that have
• 40:43
  been there. If you see some nice vintage
• 40:46
  records down right in that pea stream area, move them.
• 40:51
  Just just do it. Everything that you could
• 40:53
  possibly think of. Get it up high away and.
• 40:56
  Put it all back when you are done and they won't.
• 40:59
  It won't even look like you were there.
• 41:00
  And I bring cleaning supplies as well.
• 41:02
  A Swiffer, a jar of countertop wipe and a sticky roll in case
• 41:08
  there's hair on somehow gone by. The furniture and stuff like
• 41:11
  that. Sticky roll that thing off and a
• 41:13
  little bit of a breeze. But don't overdo it.
• 41:15
  Y'all because. OK.
• 41:20
  Don't overdo it. We do not go to the links that
• 41:23
  you go, but we are also not traveling with seven dogs.
• 41:27
  So we travel with our two dogs often.
• 41:31
  We stay at Airbnb's. We also have excellent reviews.
• 41:35
  Now in our case, our dogs sleep in their crates because we're
• 41:39
  the devil. So we have travel crates that we
• 41:41
  take with us. So we don't have to worry about
• 41:43
  the linen situation on the bed. But I am right.
• 41:46
  There with you. When we get to the Airbnb, our
• 41:49
  dogs are in their crates, in the car, waiting.
• 41:52
  We unpack everything and then I take sheets that I have as my
• 41:57
  travel sheets. Everything that the sofas, all
• 42:00
  the chairs, everything gets covered.
• 42:02
  I look at the pillows, determine if I think they're a problem or
• 42:06
  not, make a decision. I also.
• 42:09
  Carry with me in my travel staff belly bands for because I have
• 42:13
  two boys and you can buy disposable belly bands or you
• 42:18
  can buy washable. I have both.
• 42:19
  You can buy them anywhere on Amazon anywhere for any size
• 42:23
  dog. I have those in case because one
• 42:27
  time we went to an Airbnb that was not the cleanest and
• 42:31
  definitely another dog had Pete there and my boy walked up and
• 42:36
  was like. And I was like, funny, I'm doing
• 42:40
  so belly bands, yes, it's something I have in case, but I
• 42:44
  do the exact same thing as you. I just go through and I'm like,
• 42:47
  OK, what do I need to do? I do not clean before I leave,
• 42:50
  but I absolutely make sure that it's not in excess.
• 42:55
  And like I said, I only have two dogs versus your seven.
• 42:58
  So I completely get where you're coming from with the steps
• 43:01
  you're doing. Yeah, the things I'm talking
• 43:03
  about are we're talking multiple dogs.
• 43:07
  We're talking. Crusty, dusty, bleeding,
• 43:11
  rolling, stinky senior dogs. They'll just be walking in a
• 43:16
  turd. Rolls out like you don't even
• 43:17
  know what's going to happen. Every day's an adventure and it
• 43:21
  was on my list. Although I do, I do call it Ween
• 43:24
  Slings. I call them Ween Slings.
• 43:26
  And for those of you that don't know what that is, a belly band
• 43:30
  or a Ween sling, as I point it, is a.
• 43:34
  Like it's a diaper for a boy dog?
• 43:37
  Yes. And it just simply goes around
• 43:39
  their wean. And you?
• 43:42
  I don't know. I only have the washable ones,
• 43:44
  so it. Has Velcro.
• 43:46
  Velcro at the top and so if they lift their leg and pee, they pee
• 43:50
  on themselves and the furniture. It works really well.
• 43:55
  And the disposable ones are, yeah, the disposable ones are
• 43:58
  basically like disposable diapers.
• 44:00
  They just have like the adhesive.
• 44:02
  It's the same exact idea, but belly band.
• 44:04
  Ones are amazing in a scenario like this.
• 44:08
  Yes, and if I didn't mention, if you don't know me and my pack, I
• 44:13
  have all, boys, all. I don't think I probably know
• 44:19
  that. Is that on purpose?
• 44:21
  I don't know what just happens and then the only female dog
• 44:25
  that I have had. Besides Fosters, since we
• 44:29
  started adopting seniors has been Mia only girl the only one.
• 44:33
  They have all been boys. We definitely bring the Ween
• 44:36
  slangs. You just don't know they're
• 44:38
  different at your home than they are when they travel.
• 44:42
  They might be better and they might be worse.
• 44:45
  So it's a prepare. Yeah, and I mean to pack a
• 44:49
  couple belly bands, it doesn't take any space.
• 44:51
  So I mean, you just stick those things in with your luggage and
• 44:55
  you're on your way. Yeah.
• 44:57
  And if you're lucky enough to have a washer and dryer in your
• 45:00
  Airbnb, even better. If you don't, you can still
• 45:04
  couple zip lock bag and save it for later.
• 45:07
  But yeah, another thing as far as the pee pee problems go,
• 45:13
  there is something that we tried out when we had we had some dogs
• 45:18
  that were so old that they couldn't necessarily.
• 45:22
  Make it outside. Either either our Airbnb did not
• 45:26
  have a yard, which I try not to do, but some places nobody has a
• 45:30
  yard, or you have to keep the door shut at night because
• 45:34
  there's wildlife in that area that could just creep in.
• 45:38
  I leave my door open here in Arizona.
• 45:41
  I'm not concerned about anybody creeping in here.
• 45:44
  But when you're up in the woods and there's bears and there's
• 45:48
  coyotes or there's like elk or the cats.
• 45:52
  Raccoons. Anything.
• 45:54
  Oh yeah, and the raccoons will come and snack on the dog food
• 45:56
  and stuff. You can't just leave your door
• 46:00
  open and some dogs cannot hold it all night.
• 46:03
  So I love this brand and I by the way, I'm I'm going to be
• 46:07
  plugging people on this and nobody's paying.
• 46:09
  Me, we're not. Sponsored.
• 46:10
  You know we're not sponsored hashtag, non sponsored ad.
• 46:15
  There is a company called Fresh Patch and they will ship you in
• 46:20
  the mail a tray and a fresh piece of sod grass.
• 46:26
  Get. Out.
• 46:29
  Crazy enough every time we used it here, which I've used it in
• 46:33
  my own bathroom when we had to quarantine dogs straight out of
• 46:36
  the shelter, when there was like, distemper outbreaks and
• 46:39
  stuff. And we've used it when like,
• 46:40
  great grip of Chevy got really old or whatever.
• 46:43
  They all like immediately use it.
• 46:45
  I did not have to train anyone. I'm not promising you that you
• 46:48
  wouldn't have to train your dog to use it, but immediately they
• 46:51
  were like cool grass. I'm going to pee on this.
• 46:54
  We travel with it. Take it with.
• 46:56
  That's amazing. Yeah, and and the real grass
• 47:00
  soaks up every cent of it, you know, until of course it's like
• 47:05
  well overused, but you can just Chuck it on your way home.
• 47:08
  It was an easy thing to travel with and it was a lifesaver at
• 47:12
  those types of places when we were trying to take 16 and 15
• 47:16
  year old dogs that couldn't hold their pee all night but we
• 47:19
  couldn't let them outside. Yeah, makes sense to me.
• 47:22
  That's an awesome tip. Oh, and let me do another plug
• 47:25
  too. As far as dog hair stuff goes,
• 47:28
  y'all I'm sure you know tooth and honey.
• 47:30
  Yeah, we. Love that?
• 47:32
  Oh yeah. So I for years shopped at
• 47:36
  PetSmart and stuff, trying to get clothing to fit the larger
• 47:41
  dogs. And the reason I was doing it at
• 47:43
  that point was really more to help them get adopted.
• 47:47
  Like to have something helped make them stick out?
• 47:50
  Yeah, later on. I really needed it because we
• 47:54
  were traveling to places where they were cold and I have all
• 47:57
  these big dogs and then I noticed that a big time perk was
• 48:02
  there is so much less dog hair. It's all coming off onto the
• 48:06
  shirt. In addition to that, Tooth and
• 48:09
  Honey has just come out with UV protective clothing.
• 48:15
  And frankenbeans. Yeah, my dog.
• 48:18
  Frankenbeans is the only one that really needs like sunscreen
• 48:24
  and UV protection. And yearly he has to have a man,
• 48:28
  she almost removed and everything.
• 48:29
  Of course he he's the one that wants to be out in the sun all
• 48:32
  day and he's got a pink belly and a white face.
• 48:35
  And yeah, I mean, it's beautiful.
• 48:39
  Not only does it keep the dog hair up.
• 48:41
  It protects him from the sun. And in addition to that, Franken
• 48:44
  Beans is the biggest blockhead of them all.
• 48:46
  And when I throw a shirt on him, people go from being unsure
• 48:51
  about him to like, can I pet your dog?
• 48:54
  Oh my. Gosh.
• 48:56
  I've ever seen unbelievable. It's like an.
• 48:59
  It's an immediate, like, welcoming, oh, this dog is in a
• 49:01
  pineapple shirt. He must be the greatest.
• 49:05
  Yeah, nobody. Lucy.
• 49:06
  Lucy has her tooth and honey Unicorn uh shirt.
• 49:10
  Yeah, with the little curdle neck.
• 49:12
  And literally people are like. Oh my God, your.
• 49:15
  Dog is the cutest thing I've ever seen.
• 49:17
  Tater has done without that. Yeah, it's like, and the curls
• 49:23
  and the curls. Lucy gets her curls, she says.
• 49:25
  Yeah, yeah. Tater did a photo shoot in the
• 49:29
  rubber ducky Tooth and Honey fits.
• 49:31
  So yes, we are big fans of Allie at Tooth and Honey.
• 49:34
  She's very generous as well and. She very much gives back to
• 49:38
  rescues, which we love, and shelters which we love.
• 49:41
  She just sponsored A spay and neutery clinic here in Arizona
• 49:45
  for the nonprofit that I Co founded.
• 49:47
  So Yep, she's amazing. Up I have such a collection, it
• 49:51
  is unbelievable. And every time one of my foster
• 49:54
  dogs gets adopted out, if they like shirts like I, I send them
• 49:58
  with their favorite shirt. Oh my goodness.
• 49:59
  So your friend here might have a little bit of an issue.
• 50:05
  You shoot the honey. You literally sponsored the
• 50:09
  entire spay and neuter clinic yourself, yeah?
• 50:12
  I'm talking the kind of customer service is insane.
• 50:16
  Yes, the one time I had a shirt and of course it was Frank.
• 50:20
  You guys, Frank. He is Frank the tank for a
• 50:23
  reason. He goes out and he rolls around
• 50:26
  in the shirt and like rips it. Day one, I couldn't believe it.
• 50:29
  I have never had that happen with.
• 50:31
  All of the other dogs and all of the history, he just shows up
• 50:34
  and he like he like muscled out, growed out in it and it rips
• 50:37
  like like Jersey Shore, like the Hulk.
• 50:40
  And I told her and I was not even complaining.
• 50:44
  I was just like I cannot believe this freaking dog and like 2
• 50:48
  days later in the mail I had a new shirt.
• 50:51
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
• 50:53
  And I will say I have bought probably 6 things from PetSmart
• 50:57
  in different places and Amazon trying to get something that
• 51:00
  fit. I finally just was like, I have
• 51:02
  spent three times as much. Yes.
• 51:04
  And I should have just gone to tooth and honey originally and
• 51:07
  it's her tooth and honey stuff that fits.
• 51:10
  And I mean, she still hates being dressed up, but.
• 51:13
  But then she looks adorable in Unicorn.
• 51:14
  So. She does.
• 51:16
  Do you have more tips, Tara? I do have a tip for as we were
• 51:20
  speaking before on potty breaks and sometimes stopping at
• 51:25
  friends houses, this is the first time this recent trip
• 51:28
  where I had to travel with a lot of the dogs on my own.
• 51:32
  So my husband came with me and I call him Mclovin, you guys.
• 51:35
  So if you hear me say Mclovin, he's not a dog.
• 51:38
  That's my husband. So Mclovin had to like fly back
• 51:42
  home to go to work. So the majority of the trip I
• 51:45
  was actually by myself with four dogs.
• 51:48
  Which was trying to say the least.
• 51:50
  I started having a little panic on the way from San Francisco
• 51:55
  down to Venice Beach, because Venice Beach, the parking can be
• 51:58
  a little shady, and I knew they could hold their pee.
• 52:01
  But I was also afraid if they all had to go to the bathroom
• 52:04
  really bad, that they were going to, like, rush me out of the
• 52:06
  door of the van and like, I was going to drop somebody's leash
• 52:09
  and it was going to be chaos. And I was going to be panicking
• 52:12
  about finding a spot because I knew by then they would all have
• 52:15
  to go. So what I did was I found a
• 52:19
  sniff spot. Are you?
• 52:20
  Yes, we love Sniff Spot. I found a sniff spot can find
• 52:25
  them on social media but they have an app Okay.
• 52:29
  So you go on their app and you get yourself a little account
• 52:32
  and anywhere that you might be traveling.
• 52:34
  There are people that are renting out their yards and you
• 52:37
  can make sure before you rent it that it is like if you have a
• 52:41
  dog reactive dog like myself you want to make sure.
• 52:45
  There's not other dogs or cats or something that are visible.
• 52:50
  Visible, Yeah, so they'll give you the rundown.
• 52:53
  They'll tell you if it's enclosed, not enclosed.
• 52:55
  How high are the fences? You find the right place for
• 52:58
  you. But we were able to pull over
• 53:01
  and three miles only off of the freeway.
• 53:03
  And I was able to use someone's totally private 6 foot wall
• 53:07
  backyard and take all four of the dogs and let them do their
• 53:11
  biz and take off. And that cost me 25 bucks.
• 53:16
  Which was? Worth it to me, Yeah.
• 53:19
  So that was something I had been thinking about doing on on trips
• 53:22
  since I found out about sniff spot.
• 53:24
  And this was the first time that I actually did it.
• 53:27
  And I thought it was a good investment because if you've
• 53:30
  ever tried. Just take seven dogs out of 1
• 53:33
  vehicle at one time at a gas station or to rest stop.
• 53:38
  Pandemonium. It is pandemonium and I will be
• 53:42
  the first to tell you that my dogs are not the most well
• 53:46
  behaved per se. Like I couldn't tell them hey
• 53:48
  sit and stay. And the reason being is I adopt
• 53:51
  them when they're older. So like.
• 53:55
  I guess I could try to train them, but like what?
• 53:57
  How realistic is that? You're just giving them their
• 53:59
  best life, Tara. Yeah.
• 54:00
  We're doing a constant turnover, so my faults are yes, I would
• 54:05
  open the door and all seven dogs pile out at the same time.
• 54:08
  And pandemonium, yes. And I have had instances where I
• 54:12
  was a little terrified that I was going to lose grip on one of
• 54:17
  them or whatever. Sniffspot would solve all of
• 54:20
  those problems for you, I believe, Yeah.
• 54:23
  So that's great. Good use of it.
• 54:25
  Yeah, we have some locally too. Yeah, it is.
• 54:28
  It's an app that's across the country and, you know, popular.
• 54:32
  It's getting more popular. And I really hope that at the
• 54:35
  church here, I live in a church so I have that side yard, you
• 54:39
  know that we did the bond fires. I feel like that could be a
• 54:42
  sniff spot, but I need absolutely 1st and it would be
• 54:45
  so fun. And I was thinking too, even
• 54:48
  traveling in Arizona, Heather and I ran into this where we
• 54:52
  stopped at a gas station. We started early in the morning.
• 54:55
  It was not hot when we started, but by the time we got back to
• 54:58
  Phoenix I needed to stop for gas and my dog could use a bathroom
• 55:02
  break and she's an old lady. And we pulled off to the side
• 55:06
  but it was already 100 degrees out and so I tried to find like
• 55:10
  the coolest spot but there were no cool spots and she wouldn't
• 55:14
  go to the bathroom because the sand was too hot.
• 55:16
  So I carried her back and then we still had like 2 1/2 hours
• 55:20
  left to get warm. And she was like whining and
• 55:24
  pacing. And I was like, there's not that
• 55:26
  you hide can do. We were like where we should
• 55:29
  have had the booties with us, but you don't.
• 55:31
  It's hard to think about every single little thing.
• 55:35
  Yeah, yeah, I know. I try to bring the boots now
• 55:38
  too, but honestly, I had and not everybody else not that long
• 55:41
  ago. Also that.
• 55:43
  You're totally right. Not everybody aware.
• 55:46
  Yeah, absolutely. I did have that happen to me
• 55:48
  recently, and it was Elvis and he did go out and he did potty.
• 55:53
  But I was like running as fast as I could to the spot that
• 55:57
  wasn't the concrete. I I felt so bad.
• 56:00
  You know, you have those moments where you know you're just doing
• 56:03
  your best. You're going to mess up, man.
• 56:06
  If you're Yep, if you do anything with your dogs, you're
• 56:08
  going to mess things up. It's okay, but I've made so many
• 56:13
  mistakes. That's why I was so excited to
• 56:16
  talk to you too, and hopefully help other people too that are
• 56:20
  nervous about doing it. Traveling.
• 56:22
  Because I know other people have reached out to me and they told
• 56:24
  me they did start traveling with their dogs because of watching
• 56:27
  us and that it really changed their lives as well.
• 56:30
  And then they would send me family photos out in these
• 56:33
  awesome places and it really was.
• 56:37
  Something that became not just important to me, but like
• 56:40
  important for me to share what a big deal it is to people and
• 56:45
  their dogs to be able to do that, you know?
• 56:47
  So I love this. I do have just one more little
• 56:52
  small list if you're interested. Bring it.
• 56:55
  OK, I know I'm like hitting your, I'm hitting like an hour,
• 56:58
  over an hour mark here. It's fine, don't worry.
• 57:03
  I would assume that some people are going to want to do mostly
• 57:07
  camping type of stuff with their dogs, like not.
• 57:09
  Go out, but you go for it. Right, right.
• 57:12
  I've done so. I've done hotels rarely, mostly
• 57:16
  in super dog friendly places like San Diego.
• 57:19
  They'll have super dog friendly motels and you can walk almost
• 57:22
  right to Dog Beach. I mostly do Airbnbs, but there's
• 57:25
  cons to that because. You are in someone's home and
• 57:28
  you are having, if you have my type of crew, the risk is high
• 57:34
  that something is going to break or get ruined or there's a lot
• 57:38
  of work involved in that. Some people, I think a lot of
• 57:41
  people are mostly ones that are going to want to take their dogs
• 57:45
  out to camping type of spots, woods, whatever, and with a dog
• 57:49
  reactive dog, I found recently a really cool.
• 57:56
  Site that is set up almost exactly like Airbnb, but it is
• 58:01
  for outdoor spaces and it is called Hip camp.
• 58:04
  Like I'm hip, you know, like HIPHIP camp.
• 58:09
  And we can link it. We can link it in the show notes
• 58:12
  too. Yeah, OK.
• 58:13
  Yeah, perfect. Hip camp.
• 58:16
  They let you rent private. Also public camping type of
• 58:21
  spots, but. If you look for a private one on
• 58:25
  someone's property, it'll let you know what you will see
• 58:27
  there. If there's other campers there,
• 58:30
  we've rented multiple places where we never saw another human
• 58:34
  being, and you get the camping experience without having people
• 58:39
  running into your campsite, dogs off leash running into your
• 58:41
  campsite, none of that stress. Really affordable.
• 58:45
  Way more affordable than Airbnb. We usually just sleep in our
• 58:49
  van, but lots of them. You can pitch a tent or some of
• 58:52
  them. They even have tiny homes or
• 58:54
  something that you can stay in. A lot of them have private river
• 58:58
  or lake access. I am telling you, if you have a
• 59:04
  dog that is needing extra space and can't have dogs running up
• 59:10
  on them, look into hip camp. And reach out to a host and ask
• 59:14
  them. Hey I have a I have a dog.
• 59:17
  Are there going to be other ones here?
• 59:18
  We have found so many it's amazing but I would highly
• 59:21
  recommend for camping type of situations light up collars.
• 59:27
  There's. Blinky, blinky, light up tags,
• 59:30
  long leads, bear spray or Mace if you need it.
• 59:34
  Because listen, I have never in my life Mace a dog and nor do I
• 59:39
  want to, but if. It comes down to there's going
• 59:44
  to be a brawl situation. I will do what I have to do and
• 59:48
  that's the best thing I can come up with.
• 59:50
  That would be temporary, not permanent, you know, to deal
• 59:54
  with that situation. So I carry it on me.
• 59:57
  Zip line tie outs, work for some dogs.
• 1:00:00
  It didn't really work for my bougie bunch, but I thought it
• 1:00:03
  was my mind. It was like a great idea, baby
• 1:00:06
  gates, and you can make those into like a giant pen.
• 1:00:10
  And if you live in Arizona, hit up Nellis auction.
• 1:00:15
  Nellis auction has all these returns from like Amazon or big
• 1:00:19
  warehouses and they auction them off weekly.
• 1:00:23
  You have to go pick them up within a week.
• 1:00:24
  If you win, have the winning bid.
• 1:00:26
  They do it every day. The bids end around 6:00 or 7:00
• 1:00:30
  PM. I have gotten so much amazing
• 1:00:33
  stuff from Nellis Auction for dirt cheap and baby gates.
• 1:00:37
  I'm a dozen. I think I got 20 baby gates for
• 1:00:39
  like $10 and was able to make a giant camp area to enclose them
• 1:00:46
  since my zip line didn't work. And babes life jackets.
• 1:00:52
  They're also on Nellis auction, but you don't know what you're
• 1:00:54
  dealing with. There's dogs are dummies too.
• 1:00:57
  They think they're going to go be like a professional Michael
• 1:00:59
  Phelps over here and then they're like down to the bottom
• 1:01:03
  like. No, I don't swim.
• 1:01:06
  And if you have multiple dogs like me, then you can't keep
• 1:01:09
  track of everybody, so you might as well just throw everybody in
• 1:01:11
  a life jacket. Not to mention it's cute.
• 1:01:15
  Anyhow, it's good for photos. Grab yourself and nice dog treat
• 1:01:20
  Fanny pack in case you have to entice your dog back, in case
• 1:01:24
  they somehow wander off or get off of their lead or something
• 1:01:28
  happens and you have to entice them.
• 1:01:29
  There are Fanny packs with really nice lining that you can
• 1:01:33
  put. High quality treats in there.
• 1:01:35
  It'll hold your dog poop bags and it'll hold your phone and
• 1:01:38
  it'll hold your chapstick or whatever you need out there and
• 1:01:42
  just throw that on your hip. And yeah, that's my suggestion
• 1:01:47
  for camping, including Bento bowls.
• 1:01:52
  They have dog food Bento bowls. So when I'm out there, if I have
• 1:01:56
  all these dog bowls with their jowl, slime and everything on
• 1:01:59
  them, the bugs start to crawl in.
• 1:02:02
  Bento bowls. You can just snap each dog bowl
• 1:02:05
  together, and they have those on Amazon.
• 1:02:07
  As well. And listen, I've never used this
• 1:02:10
  in my life, but have you ever seen the Porcupine jackets for
• 1:02:15
  small dogs? I have a friend.
• 1:02:17
  I have a friend who has one for her Chihuahua.
• 1:02:21
  Oh my God. Yeah, I I might have to get that
• 1:02:24
  if I take Bubs. If you take Bubs.
• 1:02:27
  Yeah. Yeah, they're pretty cool.
• 1:02:28
  So they have like spikes sticking up like a porcupine.
• 1:02:31
  So an owl or a hawk is not going to come down and just swoop
• 1:02:34
  them. Have you not seen them?
• 1:02:35
  Christy, no, I'm saying yes, Yes, I.
• 1:02:38
  Really want to take OKI won't camp because that's not a thing
• 1:02:42
  for me. But also, I might have to set
• 1:02:45
  that aside to take Tiago out into the wilderness somewhere,
• 1:02:50
  because this dog loves to be in the wilderness like nothing
• 1:02:53
  else, and that just sounds dreamy.
• 1:02:57
  To me. Yeah.
• 1:02:58
  Amazing I will say. If you are going to take long
• 1:03:03
  lines out for your dogs 100%, suggest you practice before you
• 1:03:09
  get in the woods because that can be a bit of a mess.
• 1:03:16
  With multiple dogs, it's worse. Yeah, and it honestly, it's just
• 1:03:21
  getting used to it and practicing practice makes
• 1:03:25
  perfect. But even now, I often have Lucy
• 1:03:28
  on a long line and I know sometimes Heather will have her
• 1:03:31
  dog on a long line, Tiago or Tater.
• 1:03:33
  And even now, even with practice, I still end up crossed
• 1:03:37
  with Heather and like around legs.
• 1:03:39
  And so just practice so you know what your dog is like on the
• 1:03:43
  line. Even if you find somewhere that.
• 1:03:47
  I did find a couple of places where I rented a private a
• 1:03:50
  private Airbnb or hip camp where we had a piece of river that the
• 1:03:55
  dogs could really be off leash. I rarely rarely let my dogs off
• 1:04:00
  leash and it took me a couple days to even be comfortable to
• 1:04:03
  do it, but no one was there and they owned 8 acres and on the
• 1:04:07
  corner. So once I felt comfortable I did
• 1:04:09
  let them off leash. But it's really nice to have the
• 1:04:12
  lines with you. You don't know.
• 1:04:14
  I mean, you know, you can't guarantee what's going to
• 1:04:17
  happen, so. I'm a huge fan of Biothane long
• 1:04:21
  lines, which you can get pretty much anywhere.
• 1:04:23
  I love them because if they get dirty and disgusting, you can
• 1:04:26
  just wash them off. They're super easy.
• 1:04:28
  They're waterproof. The 10 foot Biothane line I
• 1:04:31
  think I've had for six years now and it's just indestructible.
• 1:04:35
  Now I have 2:30 foots and they're in bright colors so
• 1:04:38
  they're easy to see if your dog's trailing it.
• 1:04:40
  Tiago in certain instances is allowed to be off leash tater.
• 1:04:44
  Would never be allowed because he can get spooked and he'll
• 1:04:47
  run. But there are scenarios where
• 1:04:50
  you need to use that long line. And I I just love the bio thing
• 1:04:54
  because it's easy to take in any situation, no matter what
• 1:04:58
  happens or the and it's not going to be ruined or damaged.
• 1:05:02
  And it's easier when they get tangled to untangle the bio
• 1:05:05
  thing than it is to do with a standard leash.
• 1:05:09
  Yeah, for sure. I just got one of those leashes,
• 1:05:12
  so I know exactly what you're talking about.
• 1:05:13
  Yeah, And I usually have multiple things on them.
• 1:05:17
  I'm not a fan of harnesses for some reason.
• 1:05:20
  I'm a slip lead Gale. But on these kinds of trips
• 1:05:23
  where we're out in the woods, I do a harness with a loop.
• 1:05:27
  I don't know what they're called.
• 1:05:29
  You just clip it on it. There's no leash.
• 1:05:31
  It's a handle almost. So a clip on handle.
• 1:05:34
  So if we're doing. Off leash per se, then at least
• 1:05:38
  I have a handle. Same if they're getting.
• 1:05:41
  If they're slipping or they're getting into some chaos or
• 1:05:45
  something, then I have their regular size leash for walking
• 1:05:48
  them back and then I have the long line.
• 1:05:51
  For other scenarios but. Sounds very A.
• 1:05:54
  Lot with me. Sounds very similar to the setup
• 1:05:56
  that Christy and I use. Tiago.
• 1:05:59
  If it's somewhere where we're going that he might be off
• 1:06:01
  leash, he has a basic harness, It's like not to hold him back.
• 1:06:04
  It's it's a very simple roughwear harness just to be
• 1:06:08
  able to clip his long line too if I need to connect him to me
• 1:06:11
  for some reason. And then he also always wears
• 1:06:14
  his collar. And then I have his regular
• 1:06:16
  standard leash in my Fanny pack to be able to clip him if he
• 1:06:20
  needs to be close to me for some reason.
• 1:06:21
  Reason or I need to swap them out?
• 1:06:23
  So yeah, all the different things to be able to have all
• 1:06:28
  the tools. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:06:30
  Every scenario she is ready. The backpack full of things, and
• 1:06:35
  I've never used it before, but I did think about this when I knew
• 1:06:39
  you would be speaking with me. I thought maybe even a bell.
• 1:06:43
  I don't know. Tia you.
• 1:06:44
  Have a lot of dogs out in the you do use a bell.
• 1:06:47
  He has two Jingle Bells on his. It's the harness he wears for
• 1:06:52
  off leash time. He has bells on and I've
• 1:06:55
  honestly just been using it. Even if I take him on long line
• 1:06:58
  anywhere there we're in wilderness because we go up to
• 1:07:01
  pine and things and there's elk around.
• 1:07:03
  It just makes me feel better and I feel like it's being
• 1:07:06
  respectful of the wildlife at the same time.
• 1:07:08
  Hey, we're coming, you know, if you want to move on, go ahead,
• 1:07:12
  run away. Run away.
• 1:07:15
  And so, yeah, it's like, hey, we're coming.
• 1:07:18
  So I actually put the bells on there last year and I never took
• 1:07:21
  them off. So yes.
• 1:07:24
  That's cool. I'm glad to hear you use that
• 1:07:26
  because it came to mind, but I've never done it.
• 1:07:29
  Another thing that came to mind that I've never used, but
• 1:07:32
  probably should, is GPS. There's companies that do GPS
• 1:07:37
  callers now, so. And there's different benefits
• 1:07:42
  and to G PS:. Obviously when you have seven
• 1:07:45
  dogs, it's could be cost prohibitive and.
• 1:07:49
  Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.
• 1:07:50
  Yeah, but there are absolutely excellent GPS collars out there.
• 1:07:54
  And I know Christy and I have friends who have dogs that wear
• 1:07:57
  GPS collars even at home because they've had a dog that they lost
• 1:08:01
  and kind of traumatized from that.
• 1:08:03
  So yeah, it's definitely possibilities.
• 1:08:07
  Yeah. And the nice thing is nowadays
• 1:08:09
  they have GPS that you can have a handheld device that it
• 1:08:13
  reports back to you immediately. Yeah.
• 1:08:15
  So it's not like you have to go and log in or you have to wait
• 1:08:19
  for somebody to find your dog. Yeah, you're like, why is my dog
• 1:08:22
  not coming back? Ohh, it's around the corner.
• 1:08:25
  Ohh, look, it found an elk body or something.
• 1:08:30
  Yeah. Yeah, great.
• 1:08:31
  And I don't get super concerned about it because I.
• 1:08:34
  Very, very rarely, like I said, have my dogs off leash.
• 1:08:37
  I will do. I will never ruin somebody
• 1:08:40
  else's day by having one of my dogs off leash because they have
• 1:08:44
  a reactive dog. I will be very sure I'm in a
• 1:08:47
  very secure area before I ever do anything like that.
• 1:08:51
  But of course, yeah, it's like deer goes by and one of your
• 1:08:54
  dogs takes off and you just don't know.
• 1:08:57
  So I think it's not a bad thing to think about.
• 1:09:00
  My older guys, I can catch most of them, but not all of them.
• 1:09:06
  Safety. First, safety first, so if you
• 1:09:08
  can outrun your dog, don't worry.
• 1:09:10
  About a GPS, right? Right.
• 1:09:14
  Exactly. So one additional thing.
• 1:09:17
  I don't have like a lot of more tips, but if you want me to end
• 1:09:22
  this off on. I think Christy has something.
• 1:09:26
  I was just going to add one thing to that list too,
• 1:09:28
  depending on where you're going and how hot it is.
• 1:09:31
  I like to also bring a cooling vest because my dog is the worst
• 1:09:36
  of both worlds. She overheats so easy, but she
• 1:09:40
  also gets really cold, so I have to bring both her little pajamas
• 1:09:44
  and a cooling vest no matter where we go.
• 1:09:47
  Something that that just made me think about because I do sports
• 1:09:51
  with my dogs and dog sport peoples, we're all fanatical
• 1:09:54
  about keeping our vehicles. Cool, because a lot of times
• 1:09:56
  we'll create our dogs at the events in our car or near our
• 1:10:00
  car. You can buy Illuminets on
• 1:10:03
  Amazon. They're not expensive, and you
• 1:10:06
  can get an Illuminet that will cover your entire vehicle if you
• 1:10:09
  need to. So maybe you're in a space
• 1:10:10
  that's really sunny and you want to keep your car cool while you
• 1:10:15
  go and take your dogs down to the river or whatever, what,
• 1:10:18
  whatever you might have going on.
• 1:10:20
  Or you just have to sit your car in a really sunny spot.
• 1:10:22
  Those Illuminets are an amazing thing to have.
• 1:10:25
  I also use the Ryobi battery operated fans from Home Depot
• 1:10:30
  and multiple times a year they will do a crazy good deal where
• 1:10:35
  it's you buy one and you get a second fan and three battery
• 1:10:38
  packs for free or some craziness.
• 1:10:40
  And they also have misting fans by Ryobi and they all have the
• 1:10:43
  interchangeable batteries. And then something else I do for
• 1:10:46
  Tiago because he runs hot is a nice cooling pad in his because
• 1:10:52
  he's created in the car, in his crate in the.
• 1:10:55
  Car. So I kind of do an all
• 1:10:57
  combination thing to keep him as cool as possible.
• 1:11:00
  I'm so happy you said all of that.
• 1:11:02
  And will you please link it all? Yes, because I was just having
• 1:11:07
  this exact discussion with someone several days ago and she
• 1:11:11
  was talking about people who do exactly what we're talking about
• 1:11:16
  and all of the things you were just saying.
• 1:11:18
  And I was like, please let me know because I am struggling all
• 1:11:21
  the time with this. I even.
• 1:11:24
  I left my dogs for three hours in the van with it running so
• 1:11:29
  that I could help her out with networking some dogs on my way
• 1:11:32
  home. I was honestly a little shocked.
• 1:11:35
  We were at Venice Beach and it was sweater weather.
• 1:11:39
  I got to her house only one hour away.
• 1:11:42
  And it was way hotter than I thought.
• 1:11:44
  And even with the van running and every curtain in my van up
• 1:11:47
  and something blocking the windshield, it was just cool
• 1:11:50
  enough for them in there. She told me exactly what you're
• 1:11:54
  saying. She just did not know the names.
• 1:11:56
  So, like, I'm just excited that you know what it is because I
• 1:11:59
  was very interested. In yeah, the illuminates are
• 1:12:02
  awesome and. The other thing a lot of dogs
• 1:12:05
  bark people will do is there are apps now that you can put a
• 1:12:09
  thermometer in your car and the app is connected to your phone
• 1:12:12
  and you can set it to an alert depending on the temperature and
• 1:12:16
  and it'll alert to your phone as long as you're within Wi-Fi or
• 1:12:20
  have some sort of signal and it'll tell your phone if it gets
• 1:12:24
  if your car gets to a certain temperature.
• 1:12:26
  Obviously nothing is foolproof. We we know everybody, nothing is
• 1:12:30
  foolproof, but if you're in a situation where you're right by
• 1:12:33
  your car but you're not. In it and you want something to
• 1:12:36
  make sure that everybody's good and you have the car running and
• 1:12:39
  you're keeping it cool. That's another thing that you
• 1:12:41
  can do to just be a double check on the temperature.
• 1:12:45
  So there's a lot of stuff out there that is super, super good
• 1:12:48
  to use. And going back to being stranded
• 1:12:52
  on a long desert highway. Cool wind in the air, You know
• 1:12:56
  what I'm saying? If you were in that scenario.
• 1:13:00
  Those things would be extremely helpful to keep your dogs alive
• 1:13:04
  while you're waiting for assistance. 1. 100 because as
• 1:13:07
  soon as that air conditioning stops, we are talking
• 1:13:10
  temperatures of I would say 130 in the car.
• 1:13:14
  What was it today was 107, I think today.
• 1:13:17
  So you're at 100, you're well over 130.
• 1:13:20
  Oh yeah, instant death and and when you have vulnerable dogs,
• 1:13:25
  like seeing your dogs. Or sick dogs or puppies or
• 1:13:28
  whatever. They don't even do well in
• 1:13:31
  bougier conditions. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:13:38
  I try to avoid going to the vet or acupuncture or any of the
• 1:13:42
  other things that I do for the dogs in the summer because they
• 1:13:45
  don't do well just on the short trip there, they're not well,
• 1:13:50
  so. Having those things with you
• 1:13:53
  could truly save their life if you were in some kind of Rd.
• 1:13:56
  emergency and you had to wait for help.
• 1:13:58
  Yeah, I'm so glad you know what all of those things are, cuz I
• 1:14:02
  was actually really wondering about.
• 1:14:04
  This yeah, I will send you all of the things.
• 1:14:07
  Beautiful I. Love.
• 1:14:09
  What else did you have, Christy? Did we hit all the things?
• 1:14:13
  I think we hit everything. Yes, right.
• 1:14:16
  We are amazing. Would you guys like me to end
• 1:14:19
  with one story And this story has been told on Instagram, but.
• 1:14:23
  You and however you like to end Tara.
• 1:14:26
  It's it's the most crazy story ever.
• 1:14:29
  OK. Let me add to you.
• 1:14:31
  And of course, like I said, I've had mishaps for sure.
• 1:14:34
  Traveling with dogs. I already told you we lost Bubs.
• 1:14:37
  I should mention on this subject that one time Winston did get
• 1:14:41
  overheated because the Airbnb did not have air conditioning.
• 1:14:45
  And it came through in California and we actually had
• 1:14:48
  to leave a day early and stay in a friend's garage.
• 1:14:53
  I also did not have cooling vest.
• 1:14:55
  And I took the tooth and honey clothes and covered it in water
• 1:14:58
  and threw it in the freezer and then put it on all my dog.
• 1:15:02
  But Winston was my small dog at the time and he did not do quite
• 1:15:07
  as well. And he did vomit for like a
• 1:15:08
  whole day, like it was not good. Yeah, so I've definitely had.
• 1:15:13
  Things but the most craziest travel story I have for you.
• 1:15:18
  Did you guys hear about the van almost getting stolen?
• 1:15:21
  No. No O K0K 0K.
• 1:15:23
  This is so good. So I visited Oakland on my way
• 1:15:28
  up to take them to the redwoods or whatever.
• 1:15:30
  My brother lives in Oakland so I got an Airbnb there for only two
• 1:15:37
  nights to hang out and then he was going to continue on the
• 1:15:41
  rest of the trip. All seven dogs were with me.
• 1:15:44
  Oh boy. I get an Airbnb in Oakland and
• 1:15:47
  my brother said it's a little sketch over there, right?
• 1:15:50
  And to park, it's like getting worse every year.
• 1:15:53
  And he said try and park in the parking garage.
• 1:15:56
  Well, my van was just a little too tall for a city parking
• 1:15:59
  garage, but the street was empty.
• 1:16:02
  It was like nothing going on. No noise anywhere, no sirens, no
• 1:16:07
  people. And there was a parking spot
• 1:16:10
  directly in front of the Airbnb that I rented.
• 1:16:14
  At this time, I did not have my own van.
• 1:16:17
  I had the van I rented every time we went on vacation for the
• 1:16:22
  dogs was from Arizona Canine Rescue AZ Canine.
• 1:16:27
  So they have a travel van to get their dogs to vet appointments
• 1:16:30
  up in Sedona. So I would rent it out for my
• 1:16:33
  trips. It benefited both of us.
• 1:16:36
  And yeah, we parked it at about. 1:00 AM directly 2 feet outside
• 1:16:42
  of the front door. You would think it would be
• 1:16:44
  safe. We knew it was the little sketch
• 1:16:46
  over there, so we pulled every single thing out of the van
• 1:16:49
  except a cooler. This cooler I had gotten off of
• 1:16:53
  Nellis auction and it was the first time we used it.
• 1:16:57
  And you can plug it into the like cigarette lighter input
• 1:17:01
  thing. I don't know, I'm old.
• 1:17:02
  So they still had cigarette lighter carjack thing or
• 1:17:07
  whatever. And it would charge from the car
• 1:17:09
  and it would actually act like a refrigerator.
• 1:17:12
  So I know we had both said out loud we should probably not
• 1:17:17
  forget to unplug this thing because it might keep draining
• 1:17:22
  the battery while we're not using the vehicle.
• 1:17:24
  We don't know if it automatically would shut off or
• 1:17:26
  if it would keep going. So we wake up in the morning and
• 1:17:30
  I pile all the dogs into the car to go out to lunch and I have a
• 1:17:36
  little. Trouble putting the key in to
• 1:17:39
  start the car and the car won't start.
• 1:17:41
  And Mclovin, my husband starts throwing a little fit and he
• 1:17:45
  says Oh my gosh, we are so dumb, we left the cooler in here
• 1:17:49
  plugged in and the battery is dead.
• 1:17:51
  I can't believe it. I can't believe this the one
• 1:17:54
  thing I forgot. And then I'm looking around and
• 1:17:56
  look, something's really weird. Why was it so hard to turn the
• 1:17:59
  key? And then I look down and I see a
• 1:18:02
  crack lighter, all burnt and crispy on the seat.
• 1:18:05
  And I was like, that's not my lighter.
• 1:18:07
  And then I went around the side of the car and the whole keyhole
• 1:18:11
  is completely removed. And during the night, somebody
• 1:18:16
  oh, and there was also the weird ticket on the car that I just
• 1:18:18
  threw out. So I was like, I don't know what
• 1:18:20
  this means. It's a call here.
• 1:18:22
  I don't even know. I didn't know what it meant.
• 1:18:24
  But it all made sense all of a sudden, what I realized.
• 1:18:28
  Is that somebody during the night saw that van.
• 1:18:31
  They wanted to live in it and take it.
• 1:18:34
  They busted the whole keyhole out.
• 1:18:38
  They tried to start the car like Hotwire it and it didn't work
• 1:18:44
  because we left the cooler and then the battery was dead and I
• 1:18:50
  died right there. I was like.
• 1:18:53
  This is the best. Open mistake we've ever made in
• 1:18:56
  our life we would have done. This.
• 1:18:59
  And we would have had that. That wasn't even our van.
• 1:19:02
  We would have lost the van. We would have had seven dogs, 14
• 1:19:06
  hours. Stranded.
• 1:19:08
  Stranded. I mean, it could have been the
• 1:19:11
  worst nightmare ever. And the only reason the van
• 1:19:13
  didn't get stolen is because we left the freaking color black
• 1:19:16
  guy. I love it, that is.
• 1:19:22
  Hilarious story. Ever.
• 1:19:25
  And now I'm a little more careful about where I park or
• 1:19:27
  stay, but I'm also, I also got one of those, the club.
• 1:19:30
  I have a club now, so. We have just supported 100
• 1:19:34
  different businesses. I know.
• 1:19:36
  Can somebody sponsor us? What's up?
• 1:19:38
  Hey guys, we're all taking sponsorship.
• 1:19:42
  That's amazing. I love that story.
• 1:19:46
  That's like, the best story to end on.
• 1:19:48
  Ever. I did share it as it was
• 1:19:50
  happening. Yeah.
• 1:19:51
  I had to share it again because that's hilarious.
• 1:19:54
  Unreal. I still think about it almost
• 1:19:56
  every day. I can understand why that's a
• 1:20:00
  struck of good luck and bad luck all rolled up into one.
• 1:20:03
  Yeah, yeah. Absolutely minimal damage to the
• 1:20:07
  van and maximal good stuff on your life.
• 1:20:11
  Like good karma came through. Hooked us right up on that one.
• 1:20:15
  Because I don't know what I would have done.
• 1:20:17
  I really don't. I had no backup plan for that
• 1:20:20
  one guys. I so appreciate you being
• 1:20:25
  willing to come on and talk with us and spend this time with us
• 1:20:29
  because your experiences are awesome and your tips, I know,
• 1:20:33
  are going to be so incredible for people who want to travel
• 1:20:36
  with their dogs. And I love that you're already
• 1:20:38
  inspiring people to get out with their dogs, so that's amazing.
• 1:20:42
  Yeah, I hope this really does inspire people.
• 1:20:45
  If I could get one thing out of this, it would be just if one
• 1:20:48
  person went and thought, let me give it a shot.
• 1:20:51
  Because the things that your dogs can do are amazing.
• 1:20:56
  Don't set yourself up in a bubble of what they may or may
• 1:20:59
  not like or what they can and can't do.
• 1:21:01
  Just take notes as it's happening.
• 1:21:03
  You know, let them lead and you will be on an adventure that you
• 1:21:10
  never thought possible. Absolutely.
• 1:21:14
  Yeah, so if. People want to find you.
• 1:21:17
  Where can they find you at? So really, I have multiple
• 1:21:21
  social medias, but if you really want to find me, do Instagram
• 1:21:26
  and it's at Tara's Fosters, AZ and my name is spelled Tara.
• 1:21:32
  Add the S fosters as in Foster Dogs AZ as in Arizona.
• 1:21:39
  And I am pretty responsive there.
• 1:21:42
  I have Facebook and TikTok and all that too.
• 1:21:44
  But I am on Instagram all the time.
• 1:21:46
  And if you don't have Instagram and you really want to ask me a
• 1:21:50
  question or get any input from me or whatever, you can e-mail
• 1:21:54
  me. It's Tara's Fosters az@yahoo.com
• 1:21:58
  and I'm down to talk dog all day long so I'll talk shop.
• 1:22:03
  Here is an amazing resource. So yeah, we'll tag you on
• 1:22:07
  Instagram when we drop the episode as well, so people don't
• 1:22:10
  see that, Yeah. Great.
• 1:22:12
  Thank you everything that. We mentioned that I know today I
• 1:22:15
  will put into a highlight reel over the next day so that you
• 1:22:19
  can find links on Amazon or find you know fresh patch or tooth
• 1:22:23
  and honey or hip camp or whatever.
• 1:22:25
  And I know you're going to link the ones that you mentioned for
• 1:22:28
  keeping your. Vehicle.
• 1:22:29
  Cool. Because I'm very interested in
• 1:22:31
  that. I'll.
• 1:22:31
  Put all of them in the show notes so then people have them
• 1:22:34
  right with the episode and they can have it all right there
• 1:22:37
  together, which would be awesome.
• 1:22:39
  Yeah, I have a few great things off of Amazon too that I didn't
• 1:22:43
  even mention. Just like a spillproof dog bowl
• 1:22:46
  or things that have helped really, that I haven't tossed to
• 1:22:49
  the side after the first trip that I use again and again and
• 1:22:51
  again. They're so helpful.
• 1:22:53
  So I'll send you everything for sure.
• 1:22:56
  All right. So I think we'll leave it there.
• 1:23:00
  We are dropping new episodes every other Thursday.
• 1:23:02
  Thank you so much, Tara, for talking with us.
• 1:23:06
  You're welcome. Thank you for having me.
• 1:23:08
  And come visit us over on Instagram at Sometimes there's
• 1:23:11
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• 1:23:14
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• 1:23:22
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• 1:23:23
  Bye. Bye.