When people think about travelling with their family pet, it sounds like it can be a ton of fun. I thought this too when taking my Chihuahua Bella on a family trip. I have taken Bella in the car locally before, but this was the first time taking her on a family long distance trip. There are a lot of things I forgot to take into consideration. Especially not being able to leave her in the car due to VERY hot weather. It made it more complicated when stopping to eat, shop, look around, and goto rest stops. Someone always had to stay back in the A/C with her. This is something our family is not used to doing. As we always eat meals together and all. On this road trip, however, we ate a lot of meals together , but in the car
It wasn’t a horrible thing, just different.

Here is another part of our trip, at the hotel, and getting there…

Keep watching and also visit http://www.holidayroads.info to see other’s road trip stories with their pets!

The Plus Size Mommy

*Disclosure – I am being compensated for this road trip.

We went on our mini vacation with our dog Bella this past week-end. This is a Whrrl of the first “leg” of the trip. There are many more parts of the story to come

Enjoy!

The Bergan Harness worked pretty good on Bella, but I would rather have it be a bit smaller. I recommend to Bergan to make an extra small harness for tinier dogs, such as Bella who is only 5 pounds.

The Plus Size Mommy

*Disclosure- I am going to be compensated for this trip. All opinions and idea’s are 100% my own honest opinions.

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The Plus Size Mommy