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If you find you have to give up your pet, or you want to adopt – think of breed rescue. Most breeds have a rescue group who work tirelessly to find their dogs new homes. You’ll find them online via a search engine.

Fido, Rover, Caesar, Rex and Max — can you do better? How about a literary name like Bodger, Bronte or even Bilbo? Or something from nature – Comet, or Cosmo, Cricket….? Still no?  Then the dog names database is for you!!!

Go on – take them with you! Fluffy and Fido love to travel and here’s where they’ll be welcome. ! You can even charter a private plane…. seriously …

What do you do if something untoward happens to your pet? A stroke? A heart attack? Stung by a bee or a wasp? There’s a terrific app from the American Red Cross for both Android and iOS that’ll give you answers – and now, it’s free!

You may be tempted by those melting brown eyes, that fluffy kitten, those funny antics. But if now isn’t the right time to adopt a pet – move on. A pet is for life, not a whim!

Check out the Covid 19 tool to see what you need to do at the airports you visit during the pandemic.

As if to prove the fact the virus has not left us, many countries worldwide have imposed stricter travel bans. To find oiut where you can go and how or where you can’t go, and why not visit travelbans.org

Public phone chargers may well not be the convenience they appear to be.

You can either sleep on planes or you can’t. But if you can – checkout sleepjet – for an on the ground in your bed, airplane sleep experience!

There’s one word of advice for Travel over the holidays in this time of COVID-19. DON’T!