Travel After 60 with Pets: Pet-Friendly Travel, Senior Animals and Animal Shelter Volunteering

Now, before we take a break, I want to tell you the second biggest question I get.

And that's from people that already have pets.

It's not about traveling with them.

It's about boarding them while they travel.

And people are nervous wrecks, Lori, absolutely nervous wreck, particularly if they don't have a friend, a family member.

As you said, somebody already in the household is a big difference.

And they're by themselves and they have to go to a paid boarding.

How do you pick one? where you feel is safe? And does the shelter like Mount Pleasant have local information about places like that?

We do have some facilities that we recommend that do boarding.

What you want to look for is a place that's reputable.

You want to make sure that they're checking your vaccine status, that all the animals that come there are vaccinated.

Kennel cough is something that we hear a lot of, and it happens.

It happens a lot when they're at these facilities because animals do carry disease, just like humans do, and they will share.

So we want to make sure that our animals are completely vaccinated, but also the ones that are being boarded at the facility as well.

You may also want to get a tour of that facility and check their things, their records, like their condition.

Is it clean? Do the animals get out to play? Does your animal get along with other dogs? Great.

Do you have play groups? Those things that you want to take into consideration.

But if you're going to leave your family member there at a boarding facility, do your due diligence and make sure that you are checking in and checking the place and scrutinizing it, just like you would a babysitter coming into the house.

This is so important.

I'll tell you a little funny story.

My husband, myself, and my eight-year-old granddaughter were at Hershey's last Christmas.

That's a big hotel in Pennsylvania.

And they had a game, which you've all seen on TV, called Family Feud, where they give you a list of questions, and you have to guess what the public answered the most.

And one of those questions were, name a person, not a family member, that you would give a gift to at Christmas.

And she said, a pet.

Now, before we take a break, I want to tell you the second biggest question I get.

And that's from people that already have pets.

It's not about traveling with them.

It's about boarding them while they travel.

And people are nervous wrecks, Lori, absolutely nervous wreck, particularly if they don't have a friend, a family member.

As you said, somebody already in the household is a big difference.

And they're by themselves and they have to go to a paid boarding.

How do you pick one? where you feel is safe? And does the shelter like Mount Pleasant have local information about places like that?

We do have some facilities that we recommend that do boarding.

What you want to look for is a place that's reputable.

You want to make sure that they're checking your vaccine status, that all the animals that come there are vaccinated.

Kennel cough is something that we hear a lot of, and it happens.

It happens a lot when they're at these facilities because animals do carry disease, just like humans do, and they will share.

So we want to make sure that our animals are completely vaccinated, but also the ones that are being boarded at the facility as well.

You may also want to get a tour of that facility and check their things, their records, like their condition.

Is it clean? Do the animals get out to play? Does your animal get along with other dogs? Great.

Do you have play groups? Those things that you want to take into consideration.

But if you're going to leave your family member there at a boarding facility, do your due diligence and make sure that you are checking in and checking the place and scrutinizing it, just like you would a babysitter coming into the house.

This is so important.

I'll tell you a little funny story.

My husband, myself, and my eight-year-old granddaughter were at Hershey's last Christmas.

That's a big hotel in Pennsylvania.

And they had a game, which you've all seen on TV, called Family Feud, where they give you a list of questions, and you have to guess what the public answered the most.

And one of those questions were, name a person, not a family member, that you would give a gift to at Christmas.

And she said, a pet.