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✈️ How to Travel with Your Dog: Prep Their Gut with Bundle x Joy Essentials for a Smooth Adventure

✈️ How to Travel with Your Dog: Prep Their Gut with Bundle x Joy Essentials for a Smooth Adventure

Traveling with your furry friend should be joyous - not stressful. But as any seasoned pet parent knows, flying can hammer a pup’s digestive and immune system. Jet lag for us is just the beginning - dogs often suffer gut imbalances too, leading to tummy upset, travel anxiety, or weakened immunity.

That’s why prepping your pup's gut microbiome 2–3 days before travel can make all the difference. Bundle x Joy’s travel-ready lineup: Superfood Jerky Bars, Glowing Skin Health Supplement, and Gut-Friendly Dog Food - is designed to support digestion, immune health, and coat health. Here's how each helps set the stage for safe, happy dog travel.

 

🧠 Why Gut Prep Matters Before a Flight

The canine gut microbiome is a dynamic ecosystem that can shift dramatically within just 48 hours - especially under travel stress, new environments, and disrupted routines . These microbial changes during air travel are linked to increased gut permeability, immune reaction, and behavioral stress.

Healthy microbiome = smoother digestion, better immune resilience, and calmer nerves - crucial for planes and airports.

 

💊 Glowing Supplement: Pre + Pro + Colostrum = Mega Immune Support

Bundle x Joy’s Glowing Skin Health Supplement combines:

  • Probiotics (live beneficial bacteria)

  • Prebiotics (like inulin/GOS—fiber that feeds good gut bugs)

  • Colostrum—rich in IgA, IgG, IgM, lactoferrin

Research shows pre + probiotic blends reshape the gut microbiome, improving diversity and immune signaling. Colostrum, with its immune proteins, boosts gut barrier function - ideal for minimizing airplane cold/virus exposure.

➡️ How to use: Start 72 hours before travel, giving the recommended feeding dose on the label.

 

🌱 Superfood Jerky Bars: Calm, Focused, Content

When anxiety peaks - security checks, takeoff, landing - these jerky treats shine. They’re:

  • Convenient to break into small pieces 

  • Filled with gut-friendly ingredients and nutrient-packed superfoods

  • A focused, positive distraction in stressful moments

➡️ Fun tip: Mix pieces of the jerky bars with your pup's favorite kibble for a little trail mix vibe.

 

🍽️ Travel-Ready Dog Food: Regular Routine, Balanced Gut

Beyond travel days, maintaining a balanced, gut-supportive diet is key. Ingredients like:

  • Responsibly-sourced proteins like Wild-Caught, Cage-Free & Grass-Fed

  • Prebiotics & Probiotics for improved gut health

  • No mixed proteins - great for dogs with certain allergies to poultry or beef

... which help support smooth digestion and firm, healthy stools—ideal in unpredictable new environments.

Check out Bundle x Joy's gut-friendly dog food here.

 

📝 Simple Travel Plan with Bundle x Joy

  1. Days –3 to –1:

    • Feed Glowing Supplement with food or as a treat

    • Offer small sample of Bundle x Joy dog food

  2. Travel day morning:

    • Breakfast + supplement

    • Jerky bars handed out at gate, in cabin

  3. During flight:

    • Mini jerky pieces to ease anxiety

  4. Post-flight:

    • Continue supplement for 72 hrs

    • Stick to travel-friendly dog food until routine resumes

 

✅ Key Microbiome & Gut Health Highlights

Benefit Scientific Backing
Microbiome shifts during flight Travel alters composition, diversity and stress markers 
Synbiotic gut modulation Pre + probiotics promote healthy diversity & defense
Colostrum boosts immunity Loaded with immunoglobulins and barrier-support proteins
Gut-brain calms anxiety Microbiome balance influences calm behavior


✅ Why Bundle x Joy is Travel-Ready

We purposefully bundle together everything your pup needs to chase more joy, especially when traveling. Our formulas are:

  • Designed to support digestion, immunity, and anxiety levels

  • Made without artificial preservatives, by-products, corn, wheat or soy

  • 80% of our products are poultry and beef free to help sensitive pups travel worry-free

Take-offs, landings, layovers? Bring joy—not stress. Let your pup travel strong, healthy, and happy 🐶💼.

 

📚 Peer-Reviewed Research and Sources

  1. Dog food allergies and common proteins
    Olivry, T., et al. (2015). Dermatological food reactions in dogs: A review. BMC Veterinary Research.
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4710035

  2. Microbiome and immune health
    Minamoto, Y., et al. (2019). The gut microbiota and its relationship to health and disease in dogs and cats. Journal of Veterinary Internal Medicine.
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6971114

  3. Colostrum and immune function
    Playford, R.J., et al. (2000). Bovine colostrum is a health supplement in the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases. Clinical Nutrition.
    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2020.570414/full

  4. Gut-brain connection in dogs
    Forsythe, P., et al. (2010). Mood and gut feelings. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity.
    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889159110001106