Visiting Las Vegas with Pets: Animal Travel Tips

If you are planning to visit Las Vegas with pets, it is best to plan ahead for your animal to have an enjoyable trip. Please consider the following advice and tips before leaving home to visit Las Vegas with pets in tow, or your vacation plans might fall apart pretty quickly.

Tips for traveling to Las Vegas with pets:

The first step that you take toward a visit to Las Vegas with pets along starts with a visit to your veterinarian. You will want a written current clean bill of health for your animals that has all shot information, and rabies vaccine batch information on it. On the way home from the vet's office, stop at a favorite pet groomer for a written receipt showing the date of the animals last flea bath.

Make 3 copies of the important pet papers; these papers act like passports and will help you to find lodging and attend events while on a visit to Las Vegas with pets along. The animals will also need a collar or harness, a non-retractable leash no longer than 6-feet, a kennel or carrier cage, extra bowls, and extra water carrying containers for a happy visit to Las Vegas with pets.

Appropriate lodging is hard to find at hotels while you are on a visit to Las Vegas with pets. Instead of staying at a hotel, go online and rent private accommodations in a vacation house or condominium for about the same price as motels will charge. Many of these fully furnished homes are set-up for visitors with pets at no extra charge. While signing the rental agreement a copy of your vet and grooming papers will be required.

While on a visit to Las Vegas with pets, keep current contact information on your pet at all times. A copy of vet and groomer papers along with contact information should also be attached firmly to the kennel or pet carriers that you have brought along for your pets. If something happens to you, these papers may save your pet's life at the pound and they act to let all strangers in Las Vegas know that your pets are important people to you.

As you move about your lodging, never put a closed door between yourself and your pet without putting them into the kennel or carrier first. Pets will try to go through closed doors to get to you while they are in a strange place, or can become afraid and race out of the door to get lost if a stranger comes in while you are gone. If you must be gone for any length of time call a Las Vegas vet or pet store to ask for names of the trusted pet sitters.

A visit to Las Vegas with pets requires extra water available to the pet at all times. Even in the winter, the Vegas climate includes desert dry air requiring your pets to drink more water. Some travel with water from home for their pets so that they are not upset by a new water source. Never leave your pets in a vehicle alone while on a trip to Las Vegas with pets if the sun is shining; a cell phone will dial you in to the local police quickly.

Click Here for a nice article from dogfriendly.com that explains where to take your animals to see the magical Las Vegas sights in animal-friendly museums, restaurants, tours, and on walking trails. When on a visit to Las Vegas with pets, if you are taking them to a pet friendly restaurant, you must bring your own dishes, and will be asked to leave if your pets are not well behaved in this multi-pet setting.

The last information that you need to know about a visit to Las Vegas with pets is that California will not let you back into that state with your pets before you show your pets important papers at the boarder area check-point. It is wise to always keep a copy of your pets' important papers in your vehicle glove-box.