With the holiday season comes the inevitable road trips and obligatory visits to see family members and friends that you haven’t seen since college. Traveling with four small children ages 7, 5, 3 and 1 years old presents many challenges, but add a puppy into the mix and multiply those challenges by at least two. Short trips are no problem at all for the kids thanks to the DVD entertainment system in my wife’s GMC Yukon Denali. But on trips that last longer than one disney DVD, things can get ugly. For Thanksgiving we ventured North about 250 miles to visit my family for a few days then a 2 hour drive West to eat turkey and stuffing with my in-laws. We definately learned a few things on that first trip about travelling with a puppy.

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