Good luck! You know - I have no children, I personally, I would rather rent to pets than kids! I think toddlers are more likely to mess stuff on carpets, draw on walls etc. My cats just sleep!

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We have two Stafford's to take with us, have had a few quotes and think we're going to use Overhill Kennels (as recommended by a friend).
But at the mo we don't have our visa, or a case officer...
How soon before we have to seriously start thinking about this and getting the ball rolling?
They're both probably due for their boosters at around the end of Spring/beginning of Summer - do I ask the vet then not to give them the lepto part of the vaccination?
So many things to take into consideration!!!!!

If you're intending to go this year i would ask the vet not to include Lepto.

i did my dog from aus to uk with all the vet bills that cost me $5000 when i moved back here i left her with my mam

god job i did its turned out to be good company for her since my dad passed away

and she is a little australian silky AKA a yorkshire terrier in uk

Well hoping to, yes
Thanks Mary

Hi,

Kitty got picked up today by airpets. Man it was actually very heartbreaking.

She will be with them until Wednessday, and arrive in Perth on Thursday.
Hope she gets there ok ! She must be thinking we have abandoned her

If anyone go and visit their pets, please ask how Kitty is doing. SOme feedback would be great.

2 weeks for us, then we are on our way, then can visit her.

Oh bless her, she's lovely. Don't envy you the next 2 weeks - its the bit I'm dreading most of all & trying to work out how to plan it to minimise not seeing the boys.

Safe trip to her (and you!), I'm sure she'll be ok but expect a bollocking from her when you see her in Perth Hopefully someone on BE will be visiting at the end of this week, and you can always call Byford to check how she's doing.

Oh Kitty is lush! I bet you're lost without her, too.

Han, Bo and Fu get picked up this coming Monday. They're already very unsettled as furniture keeps moving around/disappearing/going for cleaning etc., and Han is barfy. He's my mature boy - he's not daft, he knows something is going on.

He also knows he's having to endure even more kisses and cuddles than usual, but he's humouring me. (We'll be following ours, just a couple of days behind them.)

All the best to you and Kitty in your new life.

Hi, a bit of a freak-out last night at 22:30.

Airpets gave us a flight number and arrival time for Kitty's plane to Perth.
So, being curious, I wanted to track the progress of the flight.
To my horror the flight number given shows that it lands in Sydney, not Perth.

Man did we freak out, stress out, then freak out some more, then go banannas etc etc. Lots of phone calls to figure out what the hell is going on, and of course airpets is closed at that time.

The last thing we wanted to be happening is poor Kitty ending up in Sydney, left alone, no one to pick her up. Would be even more traumatic for the poor little thing.

At 00:50 i managed to speak to someone at the Quantas Freight handling service in Perth, and using the way-bill number supplied, we figured out that Kitty was changed to a connecting flight in Singapore. So she was indeed on her way to Perth, just not on the flight number we were given. What a relief.
Could finally go to bed.

I am am upset with airpets for not noting this fact. I understand a connecting flight is needed, but then we should have been given the details of the real flight number that lands in Perth. Added to this is the fact that we had to give the flight number to the quaranteen centre in Perth, so what if they did the same mistake?

Well all in all it worked out. Kitty is safe in Perth as of 07:00 this morning.

I'm not surprised you're miffed, I'd go spare if I thought my little ones were going to the wrong place.

We're sending them ahead of us and I'm totally dreading saying goodbye for 4 weeks

Can anyone tell me how much they paid for the blood tests for exporting a dog with their vet??? I'm still waiting on my vet to get back to me so wanted a comparison.

Thanks

Glad to hear Kitty's ok.

My pet transporters just got me very confused. They said the kits are flying at 0030hrs on 30th April, will arrive on 31st; I said there is no 31st, do you mean 1st May? They said yes. I pondered it for a while and thought, no, that's wrong, it's only 7 hours from here so they'll arrive on 30th. What if the quarantine station don't go for them on the 30th?

They're English-educated but subtleties often get lost and confusion occurs so I've checked and rechecked, and hopefully they are being picked up at the airport on 30th. I shall be checking.

I am so glad it worked out for you.

The girls are lovely at Byford, she will be so well looked after. My cat had built up quite a bond with his kennelmaid.

It is very worrying exporting a pet and I underestimated the guilt that I would feel putting Gordon in quarantine (god knows why I felt guilty) but seriously, he had the best care ever.

Kitty is going to have a ball sitting in the 'watch tower' that they have and watching the parrots.

Great news

I know exactly what you mean. We pay these people large sums of money, and the payment is mainly for peace of mind, not having to stress/worry. I swear I have an ulcer now from those hours of freaking out.

My advise to anyone - check check check and then check again, don't just rely on the info you are given. Don't make the mistake I did and just trust.