Need advice on dog breed

Honestly, buy a wind up dog if you plan on flying.. Why put a dog through terror and possible tranquilizing or cargo storage or x-raying (potentially), just for your need for a travel companion.

On 10/21/2014 BayBarb said: I don't need a travel companion. The reasoning for a small breed is to take him on the plane with me when need be. No cargo storage. My parents travel with their dog and there is no ""terror"" going on....she is happy and jumps into her travel bag ready and happy to go!

There are many abandoned or surrendered dogs bought with the same dreaming about buying a dog of their own.

I want a dog just like ______________ <---- fill in the blank.

Many do not have pets because they travel. You cannot assume each dog will fill in your dream visualization of traveling.

There may even be restrictions of canines in some cases. Have you researched this completely?

Oh give the poor lady a break, BayBarb, I understand what you mean, I am not that familiar with small dogs, but yorkies, mini-poodles are all nice choices for small dogs. We have an English Bulldog and we don't travel (only day trips) because we don't want to leave in a kennel .......... but we are retired military so we have done lots of traveling before we had dogs!

I used to have a neighbor who had a poodle/maltese mix dog - cute as could be - BUT - and it's a big but - that dog barked from the moment it awoke until it fell asleep - never stopped for even a short while. They were right next door to us and we would say things to her husband like ""Does that barking bother you as much as it does us?"" Then he would put the dog in the house and she would immediately put it right back outside. They tried and tried to get it trained not to bark but even using a professional trainer did not work. We were so pleased when they moved and we didn't have to ever hear that dog again.

On 10/21/2014 Hooty said:

Oh give the poor lady a break, BayBarb, I understand what you mean, I am not that familiar with small dogs, but yorkies, mini-poodles are all nice choices for small dogs. We have an English Bulldog and we don't travel (only day trips) because we don't want to leave in a kennel .......... but we are retired military so we have done lots of traveling before we had dogs!

On 10/21/2014 happy housewife said:

I used to have a neighbor who had a poodle/maltese mix dog - cute as could be - BUT - and it's a big but - that dog barked from the moment it awoke until it fell asleep - never stopped for even a short while. They were right next door to us and we would say things to her husband like ""Does that barking bother you as much as it does us?"" Then he would put the dog in the house and she would immediately put it right back outside. They tried and tried to get it trained not to bark but even using a professional trainer did not work. We were so pleased when they moved and we didn't have to ever hear that dog again.