Planning on traveling with your pet?  Be sure to check these websites out before your trip for great travel tips!

Driving with Pets: Car Safety & Travel Tips a nice collection of articles and resources to ensure a safe and happy travel experience.

Cerenia:  A New Drug for Motion Sickness Does your dog get carsick?  Get ready to travel again!  For the first time, there is a medicine that prevents vomiting due to motion sickness in dogs. Click this link to learn about a new drug to help your pet travel nausea free! Ask your veterinarian about Cerenia. Although Cerenia was developed for use in dogs, it has been used in cats as well. 

Cerenia: Hear What Others Have to Say about it!

Helping Your Dog to Enjoy Car Rides from the Best Friends Society, a step by step plan to teach your dog to enjoy car rides. 

Through A Dog's Ear--Driving Edition CD  Many dogs love to go for a ride but traveling in the car can also be extremely stressful. If your canine friend can't settle down for the trip, gets the shakes, or pants excessively, now you have a drug-free solution with this psychoacoustically designed music CD.  The CD strikes the ideal balance of keeping you alert in the driver's seat while soothing your dog's nerves for a comfortable, pleasant journey.

Careful Training Can Ease Dog's Anxiety About Riding in the Car  A Chicago Tribune article from Board Certified Veterinary Behaviorist, Dr. John Ciribassi on how to help dogs enjoy car travel, with a few added tips on how to get cats to enter their cat carrier for travel.

All About ADAPTIL or D.A.P  The use of Adaptil, previously known as D.A.P or dog appeasing phermone therapy can help ease the anxiety of travel. There are two aspects to car travel problems with dogs; motion sickness and travel fear.  However, the symptoms of each are very similar and many dogs are believed to suffer from both. In most cases it is sensible to reduce the stress associated with travelling using DAP Spray or a DAP Collar. It may help to withhold food for several hours before travel. In some instances it may also be necessary to treat the motion sickness with medications like Cerenia.

Using DAP to help dogs cope with car travel
Apply DAP Spray to a dog basket, bedding or cage approximately 15 minutes before traveling. The spray can be re-applied on toilet and exercise breaks, i.e. every 2 to 3 hours as necessary.On long journeys a DAP Collar may be a more convenient formulation and should be fitted 24 hours before the journey. DAP has also been reported to aid dogs traveling by air. In such cases it is important to check with the airline if the dog will be allowed to wear a DAP Collar during the flight.

Consider Phermone therapy to decrease the stress of the traveling kitty too with Feliway the feline facial pheromone. 

Traveling with Cats A great handout to help prepare you and your kitty to travel from the Behavior Service at the University of California-Davis Veterinary School.

Traveling with your Dog from MyDogIsCool.com This website has great tips about travel plus discusses the risk of heat stroke in the summertime.

AVMA's Traveling with Your Pet FAQS  This is a link to frequently asked questions about traveling with pets from the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA).

AVMA's Traveling Brochure  More traveling tips from the AVMA

Pets On The Go!  is the definitive guide for information on pet friendly B&Bs, inns, hotels, resorts and private rentals. Look to Pets on the Go? for critically acclaimed original content, independent reviews, and professional advice. We interpret regulations, dig into the details, and uncover the real deal on pet friendly places to stay. Entertaining and informative -- we simplify pet travel.

PuppyTravel.com Do you need a puppy travel agent? At Puppy Travel they are more than just travel agents, they are people and pet travel agents! Tell them your pet travel needs. Domestic, international, accompanied, unaccompanied, whatever you need, they can help you!

LetsGoPets.com  Take your pet's when you go!  A great link for pet travel info you can use!

National Directory of Veterinary Emergency Clinics Click this link to find emergency veterinary care across the country.

Import/Export and Interstate Travel Import/Export and Interstate Travel Information from the American Veterinary Medical Association.

US Dept. of Transportation Pet Travel  Information on transporting live animals from the U.S. Department of Transportation.

USDA APHIS Travel with pets  This page from the US Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) provides basic information on domestic and international travel of common pets and other animals.

Air Traveler's Pet Corner Travelers Pet Corner, Shipping your dog or cat with the airlines from the IATA.  Information on proper shipping containers for pets.

CDC Traveling with Pets Info  Traveling with pets and animal importation info from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

Airlines have various animal transport rules.  If traveling by air, please check with the airline well in advance of travel. A few airline transport websites are listed below:

Air Tran Traveling with Pets

American Airlines Shipping Animals

Continental Animal Travel Policies

Delta Airlines Pet Travel 

Skywest Pet Travel

Southwest Pet Policies