Going on holiday is something we all love to do, but should you take your pet along? I tried to take a wide audience and speak to as many people as possible about this. I thought that it would be interesting to see what you think about this, and then gauge what you have to say about it.
Many of the people I spoke to immediately said “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. This really didn’t make all that much sense to me, I needed to understand why people thought of their pet as hard work?
It was clear to see that many people saw no advantage in taking a pet on holiday. A lot of people said it was the expense, having to pay for an “extra passenger” isn’t cheap and flying it to a destination, can be very “pricey”. 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.
However there were some people that were quite warm to the idea of taking your pet on holiday. 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 interesting to see so many different views on this, especially when people were talking 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 false? Maybe Caribbean holidays would be more suited to the cat or dog?
Tags: animals, pet airline, pets, travel
