Traveling with dog in airplane, please help
I need a lot of help and advice. I’m sorry if this post is really unorganized, but I’m 16, and with everything happening in America my parents are afraid and want to move us out of country maybe to the Philippines, and I can’t leave my baby behind.
This is my beautiful baby boy Ghost, he was a rescue from a shelter my mom and stepdad had given to me around 5 years ago because he and I clicked immediately, and I needed emotional support after being sa’d and abused by my step brother. He sleeps with me every night, I play with him, I brush and bathe him, and all I’ve ever wanted is to live a peaceful life with him and my boyfriend someday. I still want to have that, and I can’t leave him when he’s been with me through so much.
He’s an amstaff husky mix, and I don’t know how much he weighs but I can pick him up with only slight struggle so I’m guessing he can’t be more than like 60 pounds?? He has anxiety, but he more just trembles than actually panics, he’s very quiet and sweet
My mom talked to me earlier and was basically asking what I’d do if it came to us moving in the next year or so , and brought up a bunch of different reasons for why she thinks rehoming him might be best. She was talking about him dying or being lost in transit, or dying from stress, and that terrifies me.
I told her I would do anything it took to get him with us safely, even though she told me it might cost me thousands of dollars but I don’t know how to do that and I feel so scared and upset. He’s been the only thing that’s kept me sane through so much, and I can’t bear to leave him with someone else and never see him again. I’m getting my first job soon, and I’ll save every dollar I possibly can if it means that I can take him with me safely
Has anyone transported their dog to move with them far away? Please help and tell me there are ways to get him with me safely, I need him :’(.
How expensive is it actually?
What are all of my options for transporting him with me?
I’m going to crate train him and get him to be okay with being in a crate while being transported too by putting him in my car to normalize it, but what else can I do to prepare him?
Will we have to be on separate planes?
How do I make sure he doesn’t get lost?
What else should I be worried about??