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The winter holidays are behind us at last. Coming right up before you know it: spring, summer, vacation time. And no one wants to leave their best friend behind these days.

Petlovr.com has some good tips on preparing your dog (or other pet) for a road trip:

With more and more hotels becoming pet-friendly, an increasing number of pet owners are deciding to take their cat, dog, ferret or other pet along for the ride on that road trip or vacation.

It takes a lot of preparations in order for a vacation to be fun and stress-free for both pets and owners. There's several things that pet owners will need to do in order to get their animal ready to travel.

Among the issues covered in the post are getting the pet used to temporary living quarters (meaning a crate); taking "practice" car rides; getting vaccination records and a health certificate in order; making up a new pet tag with a cell phone number and, if applicable, your temporary location; what cleaning supplies, toys, collars and other items you should bring along.

I've never taken a long road trip with my dogs, but it sounds like lots of fun. Or not. (Some of us at the dog park are now talking about organizing a day trip with our dogs to go folic in the snow before it all melts. This could lead to either great fun or great tragedy; and probably a little of both.)

Any tips or experiences or funny tales that our readers would like to share about traveling with their pets? Good, bad and ugly, send 'em on.  

Our friends at San Pedro Dogs alerted us recently to the SPCA's web site with listings available to pet owners who are in need of finding an apartment or house to rent.  

With foreclosures up -- not to mention just the usual ups and downs in life with job and landlord changes -- people who need to move and are looking for a rental often face an added challenge if they have pets in their household. Sadly, moving is one of the leading reasons listed among owners who turn their animals into the city shelters. (One of my rescue dogs, Cowboy, was turned into a shelter in the high desert when his owner had to move and told shelter workers he could no longer keep him.)

Some of the listings are free to access, others charge. But many update their lists daily.

The Humane Society also offers some helpful resources.