You’re Going Away: A Guide for Preparing Your Animal When You Travel

Your animal feels your trip long before you pack the suitcase. This gentle guide, written from an animal communicator’s perspective, helps you prepare them practically and heart to heart, so your time apart feels calm and safe for both of you.

Part One: For You

• Before You Leave: vet visit, ID and microchip, supplies, and keeping their routine steady

• Telling Them You’re Going: how to share your plans with your animal, plus a fill-in “My Message to My Animal” page

• Sitters and Boarding: how to choose the right care, with questions to ask a sitter or boarding facility

• While You’re Away: staying connected from afar, and the signs of stress your sitter should watch for

• Coming Home: a gentle reunion and settling back into your bond

• Notes for Other Animals: birds, rabbits and small animals, reptiles, horses, and homes with several animals

• A step-by-step timeline, from booking care to the first week home

• A complete checklist for you

Part Two: Sitter Packet

• About My Animal and Contacts

• Daily Routine, Food and Medication, and a daily care checklist

• Emergency Care and My Wishes

• House Notes

• Toxic foods, plants, and household items for dogs and cats

• What to do if your dog or cat gets out

• A print-ready Missing Animal Flyer

• A storm and evacuation plan

Details

• 28-page digital PDF, US letter size, delivered as an instant download

• Fillable: type into the forms and checklists on screen, or print and write by hand

• Works best in Adobe Acrobat Reader (free), which also lets you add a photo to the flyer

This guide offers general information and complements, but never replaces, veterinary care.