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exciting part of their world. Okay, it's holiday time with our dogs. Michelle, you deal with people

who are going on their holidays with their dogs day in, day out. Where do we start?

First of all, start by booking a holiday. I always think that that's a great place to start.

And as soon as you've booked, then start getting ready. Because you want to enjoy your holiday.

And what is the expression? Plan to...

Fail to prepare. prepare to fail.

There you go.

There you go.

Now we've just had a lady arrive here and I know obviously Michelle you run holidays for dogs.

Yes.

So you are day in, day out, working with people who are going on holiday with their dog and they're travelling and they're travelling for some fun with their dog and they're travelling for

some training maybe with their dog.

Well, sometimes they're just travelling because they want to be near the coast with

their dog. Or sometimes they're just travelling because they want to be near the coast with their dog.

Now, a lady that we've seen today, she's arrived today, she's come here all the way from Scotland. She's so excited. She's so excited. But her dog was actually very travel sick. Yes. So she was concerned about travelling. And she arrived in the car park a minute ago and she'd had a lesson I know beforehand with you. and she said, she travelled great. She's amazing. It went really well. I'm so happy. I suppose what are some of the common struggles you see with people bringing their dogs on holiday or even just like travelling generally? What are some of the things you see as typical troubles and struggles that people might be able to work on beforehand? So you mentioned already travel sickness. So that's just rehearsing, taking them in the car. Just take them on journeys. And then as part of the car travel here in the UK, you actually take your dog in a vehicle to travel, which was a bit unusual for me coming from Bermuda. But you want to rehearse everything that you're going to do on holiday. So get them used to hanging out in the car.

Make it a really cool place to be.

Give them their meals in the car.

Make it just a home away from home, basically.

Because once you get on holiday, the only place your dog is going to have that's familiar to them is your vehicle.

So make it really cozy, make it comfy, and make it a place

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