Holiday Horror:
What To Do If Your
Dog Goes
AWOL?
It’s probably happened to all of us
once. You notice the back gate fl apping
suspiciously in the wind and your
heart rate doubles. You check under
the beds, behind the settee, even
inbetween the car and the garage wall;
and just as you are about to panic you
the spot him bounding bashfully back
with ‘that’ look on his face.
He couldn’t have been gone for more than
fi ve minutes. A lucky escape you may
think and you promise yourself you will fi x
the latch on the gate. Your curious friend
doesn’t have a clue about the highway
© Johnny Jet
code, or the perils of big, sheers drops;
he was just having a nosey about the
neighbourhood. able to holiday abroad with their dog for
company, so by defi nition, it is a possibility
More often than not these incidents, that our dogs could do the dreaded
although undesirable, have a happy disappearing act as a far away as Italy or
ending. This is often due to helpful Spain.
neighbours mucking in with the search,
familiar locations for dogs to navigate with The most popular places for people to
and ease of communication. Take all of holiday with their pets are often rural and
these factors away and it could all turn out are often within the UK. If you holiday
very differently. in Wales for example, and you have the
misfortune of losing your dog, you will
Believe it or not, Summer is not that far not necessarily be at as much of a loss
away and for most of us, thoughts will as you would be if you were in rural Italy
turn to holidays and getting away from the or France. For a start you would have
inevitable British slush-storm of a season. a common language and you would be
familiar with the law. The initial panic that
With the popularity of the Pet Passport would set in would be lessened slightly by
Scheme, more and more people are your ability to communicate your problem
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