Travel with a dog by train or other public transport – very responsible action. It is necessary to know rules of transportation of animals and to be prepared for a trip in advance.
Instruction
1. If your dog already has a pet passport and all put vaccination is done, difficulties with obtaining necessary veterinary certificates will not arise. In the return case you should do vaccination (and the most important - a rage inoculation) more than a month before estimated date of departure. Do a rage inoculation in the state veterinary clinic, otherwise there can be misunderstanding with reliability of record about vaccination.
2. For couple of days before departure together with the dog visit the regional station on fight against diseases of animals and acquire the veterinary reference of form No. 1. This reference is made out in transit an animal for borders of area (republic) and contains information on the transported animals and a terminal point of a travel.
3. Acquiring tickets, pay the luggage ticket for a dog. The dog weighing less than 20 kg can be taken as hand luggage in a couchette car. In that case buy the usual luggage ticket (20 kg of hand luggage). The dog of the big sizes is paid as baggage for weight. The dog has to be on a lead and in a muzzle. Large dogs take place in the platform under supervision of the attendant. It is possible to transport dogs in a separate compartment, then the extra charge for their transportation is not charged.
4. In day of sending limit to a dog food. You do not feed a dog before the road if you are less than 5-6 hours en route. It is necessary to take a bowl and a water supply in the road. Learn from the conductor at what stations it is possible to walk a dog. If the travel is long, prepare not spoiling forage (for example, dry or tinned) on each day of traveling. In warm season the diet of a dog can be cut down strongly. In the winter, in the cold platform, the dog needs additional food. As a rule, dogs well postpone a travel by rail - unlike the car, almost does not suffer from travel sickness in the train of dogs. Do not lower a dog from a lead and try not to leave her in the train unguarded.