In my travels to industry and boat shows and various cruising venues, I have gotten one predominant
question - "How do I get my dog to go to the bathroom aboard my boat?" Sounds like a rather simple question, however the answer
is often not as easy as it seems, particularly for the older dog and for those younger dogs who have been very effectively housebroken.
Other questions often asked concern the preparations for moving aboard a boat or into an RV for extensive cruising, and how to get
the cat or the dog comfortable with long term living and traveling aboard. What do I need to do? How can we best prepare? What do
we need to take along?
These and other questions on taking your pet away from home or traveling in a vehicle or
vessel are addressed in this book. It deals with many fundamental behavioral issues often encountered in the cruising life and offers
tips, shortcuts, and some step-by-step instructions for some long term behavioral modification.
Features information on the following:
- Step by step instructions on how to acclimate your pet to travel in the car, RV, or
boat
- Takes your pet from the living room, and incrementally gets it to the door, outside to the yard, to
the vehicle, and even from there to the boat
- Instructions for helping your pet adjust to travel in
a pet carrier
- Broken down into how to proceed with cats, dogs, and puppies and kittens
- Motion sickness
and how to cope with it
- Acclimating your pet to travel by dinghy
- How and what to feed your pet when traveling in remote locations
-
Kitty litter - what to use and some safe (and not-so-safe) alternatives
- Elimination habits
- How to
adapt your pet to eliminating aboard a boat
- Takes your pet from eliminating
in the yard to the boat deck, step by step
- How to housebreak a pet using the 'two minute drill'
- Each step is broken down into how to proceed with cats, dogs, and puppies and kittens
- Shortcuts for the
'fast learner'
- Information on 'inappropriate elimination'
- Scratching (claw sharpening) in cats
- Barking
behavior
- Recommendations for leash training
- Pet safety aboard
- Pet overboard drills, pet life jackets,
netting, swimming advice and more
- Pet care supplies and items to take along
