AskPatty’s Automotive Holiday Guide for Pets
If you'll be traveling with your pets this holiday season, the Pet Safety Lady offers the following tips:
- Be sure to keep your pet safely secured in a travel harness or crate. A 60-pound dog in only a 35-mph accident becomes a 2,700 pound projectile so securing your animal, whatever their weight, is very important and too often overlooked. Be smart, ride safe, and buckle up the whole family.
- Remember to take any medication your pet will require in the time period you will be away. Your pets usual food should travel with you.
- Never let your animals drink from the gutter or near cars along the way, as coolant and antifreeze are poison to pets! So are some household cleaning/chemicals, so if you need to use any to clean up after your pet make sure it is both child and PET SAFE.
- Keep your VETs info handy, regardless of whether you post it a magnet on the fridge, or in your phone book or cell phone. but also it is in your Pet Safety Kit. Also ahead of time make sure your VET will have someone on call for holiday, where they are located and how to reach them.
FINALLY: Don't forget your pet's ID TAGS! If your pet gets lost, you'll want to be sure the kind stranger who finds it can reach YOU! Also, Bark Buckle UP offers a FREE pet safety kit to help in case of an accident in your car. The kit assembles all the important information about your pet such as name, vaccinations, and vet info onto a convenient travel card. A sticker on your vehicle window alerts First Responders to the pet safety kit in your glove box so they can call your contacts to come get your pet and inform them you have been in an accident.
Happy holiday shopping! In case you missed one of them, please refer to our other AskPatty automotive-themed gift guides with great ideas for car-loving ladies, auto-oriented kids and teens, and gearhead guys!
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