Have you not gone somewhere becuase you didn't want to leave your bird(s) alone?

[Tom Lawless]

I bought a travel cage for Dave. I have several options to watch him when I am gone and I trust them implicitly but I miss him. There will be times when I will have to travel without him but I find I am planning vacations where he can go too.

[Sashagirl]

With the flock we have and it constantly growing we haven't taken a vacation in about 4 years.The things we do for our pets!

[AndreaSctlnd]

Originally Posted by Tom Lawless

I bought a travel cage for Dave. I have several options to watch him when I am gone and I trust them implicitly but I miss him. There will be times when I will have to travel without him but I find I am planning vacations where he can go too.

And don't forget, you will have your new one soon...right?

[AndreaSctlnd]

I really only go to work and maybe on a Saturday I may go to the town an hour away for shopping...but I have two dogs and two birds and feel guilty if I leave them...

I am NOT a big vacationer because I would rather stay home and be with my family so they have not really made me stay home, I am a home body to begin with.

If I had to go somewhere, I would place them with a reputable boarder or have some one come here and stay with them.

[Jannabellsmom]

I didn't go on a 4 day visit to my sisters house 6 hours away for Easter. Because J-Bell was still so young. I told my family, when she's older. They do think I'm crazy.

[lisark]

We live out in the country with a menagerie and it's difficult to find someone to come over to stay with the animals. We have four dogs, two cats, two birds in the house and 15 chickens.

[Parrotpeople]

The sad thing is I work for a travel agency

When I have gone my husband stays home with the fids.

So maybe another poll would be "When's the last time you have been away together with the whole human family?"

[Renae]

I have a few times, longest was when I had to go to another state for a week and a half, left my mother to look after the birds, as much as I hated leaving them (it broke my heart!) I just kept reminding myself how happy I would be to see them when I got back, and how happy they would be to see me too.

Myself and my mum and 2 brothers will be going away on a 2-3 week holiday, I don't want to leave them, but I'm going to ask a friend who owns a 'tiel if he'll come over and check on them once a day and feed them + give them clean water while we're gone.

[budgzie]

There isn't any thing like a bird sitter here and all my friends have a cat and I don't really trust my best friend with Bullie AND All my other friends are against me keeping birds....but one but she lives 2 hours away.
The only person I do trust is my grandma or my aunt who are 6hours away.......

3 days after I got Buddie we drove 6 hours with Buddie in a cardboard box.....she didn't like that much!!