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Ways to Help Your Dog Deal With Elevation Changes When Traveling
From Personal Experience
If you follow my writing you already know about our dog Forest. He has traveled with us ever since we got him when he was only eight weeks old. He has traveled with us through the Rocky Mountains to the Olympic Peninsula in the state of Washington and clear back across the country to the finger lakes in the state of New York. From Lake Ontario through the Appalachian Mountains down to Florida and west to Big Bend National Park where we are today.
Elevation at Loyola Beach for the month of January was only 13 feet above sea level. Monday we drove to Del Rio where the elevation was 984 feet above sea level. Forest didn’t have any trouble on Monday. Today we drove from Del Rio to Marathon. We reached an elevation of 4,000 at Marathon and now are back down to only about 750 feet here at the campgrounds.
It didn’t take us long to discover that he had difficulty with elevation. Just like when we have to pop our ears, or yawn, to release the pressure. He doesn’t realize or know enough to yawn. He doesn’t understand why his ears hurt.
The higher we go in elevation the more he paces back and forth in the RV, or gets nervous and just can’t seem to relax or sit still, even to the point of whining. As soon as he starts pacing, I…
