I Wish They All Could Be California Dogs

Stef saw the vet today looking for some chemical help in relieving Roxie’s anxiety–in other words “Doggie Valium.”

Yes, that’s Roxie in a suitcase preparing to fly east with Stef for a short visit. If it was only as easy as putting her in a suitcase!

If you’ll remember Roxie flew out to California in a perfectly good dog carrier with mesh sides. They didn’t last as far as the Mississippi! Roxie chewed her way out before we landed at Midway in Chicago.

Stef saw the vet today looking for some chemical help in relieving Roxie’s anxiety–in other words “Doggie Valium.” She even gave her a test taste tonight. Not good. Roxie was up and playing in no time.

Stef’s looked around for a hard sided carrier but if anyone is selling them in Los Angeles we haven’t found them. This afternoon I called a company in Texas that makes them, but they knew little about where their product was sold! Petsmart and Petco they offered. Sorry, neither stock the hard stuff!

Hopefully the trip goes smoothly and Roxie sleeps her way across America. It’s unlikely, but it’s a hope.

In the meantime, did I really need an excuse to post the picture?

4 thoughts on “I Wish They All Could Be California Dogs”

  1. When we flew back from Chile to move to Connecticut, I bought 3 hard-sided dog carriers from American Airlines (we brought the cats down from California in hard-sided carriers, but we got the dogs while in Chile). Yes, we had to pay a little more for them than if we bought them from a store ( no place in Chile had what we needed), but they were just perfect. Try the airlines. Or I can give you a small (Vari-Kennel 300, or I might even still have a smaller one) that you can Fed-Ex out to California for Stef to use on the trip.

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