Buddy on the Road
Pet Adventures10 April 2026

Buddy on the Road

Carriers, hotels and the art of travelling with a sable.

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The logistics

Travelling with a sable means planning around one question: where will Buddy sleep, eat and safely destroy things? The answer is always the same — his carrier is base camp, and every hotel room gets a ten-minute sable-proofing inspection before he is released.

Trains beat planes. A dark, quiet carrier under the seat beats a cargo hold every single time, and most European trains simply do not care about a small sleeping mustelid.

Hotels that survived Buddy

We book apartments over hotels now: a kitchen for raw food, a bathroom that can become a temporary sable room, and fewer neighbours to confuse with dawn war-dancing.

Buddy's record: four countries, zero escapes, one stolen hotel sock that we paid for. The sock is now part of his stash.

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