Trip Report

[Beach Crazy]

Beach Crazy, nice pics. Nice review! I'm jealous! And boy, you did get burned. Ouch! I think that is so cute your dog putting it's paw on your arm. Our dog paws us all the time! I almost dread leaving our dog this year. Last year was the first year we boarded him without his momma with him. She passed away January 2005 during surgery for cancer. Still have tears well up when thinking about her. She was almost 13. He howled in the basement for 3 nights after we got back and picked him up at the vet. And now he is 12, has some kidney failure that is being monitored by the vet, but is fine otherwise. He is on a kidney diet dog food and senior food and I just dread a repeat of last year. Almost tempted to cancel our trip out of dread of leaving him. Feel guilty already. We so look forward to our trip to the beach. What should we do?

Thanks LDB60! I feel for you because it's like leaving your child. We have a sitter for Marley. That is the only way to go. He's also a friend and he brings another guy with him that we know. They work different hours so they work out who's going to let her out and stuff. We boarded her a couple of times and nobody takes care of her like we or the boys do.

So, they get a bachelor pad for a week and we have peace of mind! Oh, and yes we trust them, they know we would.......

 

[Lady D]

I wish we did know someone personally we could leave him with! I would ask my son and his wife to come over here and check on him every day and feed him and change his water but my son works 7 to 7 and his wife works to 9 at night most nights. And they have 3 cats at home to tend to so that won't work. There are pet sitter agencies here but I wouldn't trust them. I don't like people in my home I don't know. He was ok out there when his mamma was with him. Probably won't have a good time this year thinking about him. I always call and check on him every other day when we are there.

 

[audie]

Beach Crazy, nice pics. Nice review! I'm jealous! And boy, you did get burned. Ouch! I think that is so cute your dog putting it's paw on your arm. Our dog paws us all the time! I almost dread leaving our dog this year. Last year was the first year we boarded him without his momma with him. She passed away January 2005 during surgery for cancer. Still have tears well up when thinking about her. She was almost 13. He howled in the basement for 3 nights after we got back and picked him up at the vet. And now he is 12, has some kidney failure that is being monitored by the vet, but is fine otherwise. He is on a kidney diet dog food and senior food and I just dread a repeat of last year. Almost tempted to cancel our trip out of dread of leaving him. Feel guilty already. We so look forward to our trip to the beach. What should we do?

i feel your pain here - i don't know what i would do if my parents couldn't dogsit for us - dory would be crushed if we boarded her, and i have no doubt she would make herself sick grieving for us. i would probably have to consider cancelling too.

 

[Miss Kitty]

:clap_1:...WAH HOO!!! BC, that was a wonderful report. I know that most of us can never hear enough about people's trips!!! It is especially funn to see how people spend their time! There is no wrong way to do SoWal!!!

 

[Lady D]

Audie, if you could have seen him when he poked his head through that door and saw us. He was throwing his head back and had a howling bark like finally, they are getting me out of here. But this place is nice. They are way off the road, have a big fenced back yard. I just wish they would take several of them out in the fenced back yard and let them interact with each other but they won't. I am going to tell them he is arthritic and has trouble with injuring his front paw sometimes and that to make sure they take him out several times during the day to walk around. I don't want him laying in that vet 24 hours a day without some exercise in that fenced area. That is if we do get to come. Still unsure of that for other reasons. My parents are in an apartment and don't like dogs, couldn't keep one there if they did and we cannot leave him with my husband's mother in the country because she has about 30 cats and i wouldn't trust her not letting him get out and get lost down there or killed on the highway. So we have no other option.

 

[audie]

some good friends of mine went to okaloosa island last summer for a week, and boarded their dog, which is a registered airedale terrier. well, someone at the kennel (no one would admit to it) somehow let her get away and she wandered the countryside alone for 4 weeks (she was an indoor dog) until the animal control officer finally picked her up in an abandoned barn. and of course she was pregnant when they got her back. it was a mess, but thank goodness she was returned. there is an excellent kennel here where everyone takes their dogs, they are sooo hard to get into. i just think dory would never survive it, she likes to be with her people too much. and i couldn't take the worry of wondering how she was doing. i have to call mom and pop every night to check on her as it is. yes...... i am a doggy worrywart !

 

[Cork On the Ocean]

Oh my, where do I begin???

Thursday we headed down to the beach. I stepped down to a 4 SPF because I didn't have an 8. Big huge dumb mistake. We stayed out our usual time about two hours and went to clean up. I kept getting redder and redder as the afternoon progressed. We went to play golf (he not me) and I bought a little package of 30 SPF because I was starting to feel the burn. By the time we left the course. I looked like a tomato!

We need to set up a satelite to spot sowallers across the US! I think they picked up a flaming red heat body in Indiana recently also.

 

[audie]

We need to set up a satelite to spot sowallers across the US! I think they picked up a flaming red heat body in Indiana recently also.

i was not red when i came home sister - i am a nice shade of brown, which will fade quickly up here !

 

[Cork On the Ocean]

i was not red when i came home sister - i am a nice shade of brown, which will fade quickly up here !

Isn't brown the color of toast? As long as you had FUNN, that's all that matters. You're beautiful no matter what color you are

 

[audie]

Isn't brown the color of toast? As long as you had FUNN, that's all that matters. You're beautiful no matter what color you are

awwww you're gonna make me cry ! i just love you !