Would you take your pets on holiday with you?
Now here is a question for you, would you bother taking a dog or cat on your holiday? I have spoken to many people about this and received so many varied answers. I wanted to share some of them with you, and gauge your reactions to these.
First of all the main response was “No”. There are those that did mention, taking the pet with them on their vacation, could actually add more stress to “their time”. There were some, that regarded looking after there pet as working. Now I thought this was interesting, why buy a pet if you are going to consider looking after it as a chore?
It was clear to see that many people saw no advantage in taking a pet on holiday. First of all because of the expense, it’s much cheaper to put your dog in a kennel for a week or two, rather than flying it out to the holiday location. There are checks and procedures that need to be active before you can even take your pet with you, many things need to be looked over.
Although there were many that didn’t like this thought, there were some that welcomed it with open arms. They suggested that a pet that has been in the family for a long time is like one of the family, almost like a child or sibling. There are some people that you find that are so close to their animals, that there is no hope of separating them. Now there were some people that thought of the pet as a family member, yet still considered it not as important as other “humans”, and made themselves feel better by saying, “the dog didn’t understand what a holiday was, so didn’t need to go on one”.
It was amusing to see so many alternative aspects on this, especially when people were chatting about Egypt holidays, or even Maldives holidays, this showed that people were prepared to take their dogs to places, even though they wouldn’t have much mobility, so is this correct or wrong? Maybe Caribbean holidays would be better suited to the cat or dog?
