Need charter transportation to Ketchikan? (Anchorage, Haines: travel, health, companies)

[jshays]

Hello. My husband and I will be traveling to Ketchikan in June, and will be transporting our RV and truck on the ferry from Prince Rupert. I have a dog who's diabetic and his health won't allow me to leave him for 5 hours in the car on the car deck of the ferry. Does anyone out there know of another form of transportation that would allow me to keep my small dog with me. I kow this might sound silly to some, but I can't risk his life. If anyone has any suggestions please help me. I would appreciate any tips or refferals.

Thank you-

[rotorhead]

Hello,

If the dogs health is that much of a concern, you might want to reconsider driving him up there at all. Prince Rupert is as close as you can get on the road, it'd be a much further ferry trip from Haines or Skagway.

Having flown both of our dogs on the airlines both ways between NM and Anchorage, five hours alone in the RV sounds like a pretty easy ordeal. He'll probably snooze the whole time anyway (especially in familiar surroundings), it's certainly more humane than shipping him in the belly of an airliner. My dogs can sleep five hours just as a warmup nap for the main event of....sleeping the rest of the day (of course, they ARE beagles).

If money is no object, air charter flights are available to and from most any community in SE and in Canada as well. Even if you hire the whole plane many companies will insist that the animal be confined to a kennel for the duration of the flight, though it'd probably be at the discretion of the pilot.

[jshays]

Thanks so much for the reply. I've been looking into charter flights, but they are pretty pricey. He doesn't need shots but twice a day, once in the morning at in the evening, and if he can stay cool and calm in the familiar surroundings of the RV, he will be ok. I guess my next step would be to check with an AMH agent to see if we can be loaded last, the air quality from the exhaust in the car deck, and how hot it gets in there. Thanks!