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I've had as many as 3 dogs at a time. Still less to board them than to travel with an entire family. And that's not including the time taken off from work for them.
Why would boarding two dogs for a week and then driving down, and her then paying for gas, be less than throwing your family in the car and driving a measly 300 miles, even with with the family, if you don't need hotels? It seems like the same either way, with the only difference being the boarding.
I have two big dogs and to board them both for a week costs an arm and a leg.
I've had as many as 3 dogs at a time. Still less to board them than to travel with an entire family. And that's not including the time taken off from work for them.
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Originally Posted by dbsteel
Why would boarding two dogs for a week and then driving down, and her then paying for gas, be less than throwing your family in the car and driving a measly 300 miles, even with with the family, if you don't need hotels? It seems like the same either way, with the only difference being the boarding.
I have two big dogs and to board them both for a week costs an arm and a leg.
I believe that CarnivalGal's post was made before she (we) knew that it was only a 300 mile drive. I know that when we traveled to visit my husband's parents it would cost us over $2,000 in airplane tickets, renting a car, parking fees at the airport, lost wages etc. for a week even though we stayed at their house & did not need a hotel. At that time boarding two dogs would have been about $200 a week (I know that it is a lot more now).
The fact that it is only a six hour drive vs. a transcontinental plane trip away makes a huge difference in the situation.
I'm still wondering why the son hasn't driven with his family to visit mom/dad/grandparents in two years, if it is only a six hour car ride. I suspect that there is a lot more to this story. I knew a couple that used to drive 600 miles round trip every single weekend for several years to help provide care to elderly parents (they provided respite to a sibling that lived in the same town as the parents).
PS. Oops, I reread the first post It says that the OP has not "gone down" in two years, I had thought that she had not seen her son & grandchildren in two years. My mistake.
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I'm still wondering why the son hasn't driven with his family to visit mom/dad/grandparents in two years, if it is only a six hour car ride. I suspect that there is a lot more to this story. I knew a couple that used to drive 600 miles round trip every single weekend for several years to help provide care to elderly parents (they provided respite to a sibling that lived in the same town as the parents).
PS. Oops, I reread the first post It says that the OP has not "gone down" in two years, I had thought that she had not seen her son & grandchildren in two years. My mistake.
Yeah, the OP has (maybe purposely?) not mentioned how recently or frequently the son has been up to visit her.
They can be boarded, or left with a friend/relative, or a pet sitter can come in to take care of them.
You don't become housebound just because you have pets!
We once boarded our dogs when we traveled. The dogs came out of there not doing well at all. Fortunately our son will come feed and walk our dogs now. We do the same when he and his family go away.
We once boarded our dogs when we traveled. The dogs came out of there not doing well at all. Fortunately our son will come feed and walk our dogs now. We do the same when he and his family go away.
True and most kennels do not have humans there overnight. A kennel close to me a few years ago had an overnight fire, many pets were boarding at the time as it was over the holidays, needless to say many pets didn't make it.
Old enough to travel for 6 hours, especially with all the gadgets they have today to keep them amused in the car.
My 20 month old grandson did fine for a 10 hour car trip, granted breaks were taken.
Old enough to travel for 6 hours, especially with all the gadgets they have today to keep them amused in the car.
My 20 month old grandson did fine for a 10 hour car trip, granted breaks were taken.
FWIW, at least in our experience, our 2 kids were GREAT travelers from birth to about 24 months...then they became handfuls until they both got 6+.
Also, FWIW, we held off on gadgets for a long time so that's not always an option.
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