Shipping Pets
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Shipping Pets
Does anyone have any advice or experience shipping pets. We have two <20lb dogs who we are in the process to relocate from Canada to Spain. We can do one connecting flight - 14hrs total or 2 connecting flights 20+hrs.
I cannot get any real answers from airlines unless we have a flight number but I'm trying to find out what happens with the dogs during the layovers. Do we get them and can walk and feed and water them. Do they stay with the airline and do they walk, feed water them.
Would you do 1 connection or 2 connections?
Do we maybe fly to UK for a few weeks with family and then onto Spain? but I suspect thats two lots of vets paperwork to do?
This is the most stressful part of this process
Thanks for any advice
I cannot get any real answers from airlines unless we have a flight number but I'm trying to find out what happens with the dogs during the layovers. Do we get them and can walk and feed and water them. Do they stay with the airline and do they walk, feed water them.
Would you do 1 connection or 2 connections?
Do we maybe fly to UK for a few weeks with family and then onto Spain? but I suspect thats two lots of vets paperwork to do?
This is the most stressful part of this process
Thanks for any advice
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Re: Shipping Pets
Does anyone have any advice or experience shipping pets. We have two <20lb dogs who we are in the process to relocate from Canada to Spain. We can do one connecting flight - 14hrs total or 2 connecting flights 20+hrs.
I cannot get any real answers from airlines unless we have a flight number but I'm trying to find out what happens with the dogs during the layovers. Do we get them and can walk and feed and water them. Do they stay with the airline and do they walk, feed water them.
Would you do 1 connection or 2 connections?
Do we maybe fly to UK for a few weeks with family and then onto Spain? but I suspect thats two lots of vets paperwork to do?
This is the most stressful part of this process
Thanks for any advice
I cannot get any real answers from airlines unless we have a flight number but I'm trying to find out what happens with the dogs during the layovers. Do we get them and can walk and feed and water them. Do they stay with the airline and do they walk, feed water them.
Would you do 1 connection or 2 connections?
Do we maybe fly to UK for a few weeks with family and then onto Spain? but I suspect thats two lots of vets paperwork to do?
This is the most stressful part of this process
Thanks for any advice
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Re: Shipping Pets
When we relocated from the Middle East with our three cats we used a pet relocation service who made all the arrangements from making sure their vaccinations etc were up to date and completing all the paperwork for departure to the delivery to our house in Malaga.
if you have a similar service then I would recommend using them as it is stressful enough thinking about the pets travelling without adding to it with paperwork worries etc.
if you have a similar service then I would recommend using them as it is stressful enough thinking about the pets travelling without adding to it with paperwork worries etc.
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Re: Shipping Pets
When we relocated from the Middle East with our three cats we used a pet relocation service who made all the arrangements from making sure their vaccinations etc were up to date and completing all the paperwork for departure to the delivery to our house in Malaga.
if you have a similar service then I would recommend using them as it is stressful enough thinking about the pets travelling without adding to it with paperwork worries etc.
if you have a similar service then I would recommend using them as it is stressful enough thinking about the pets travelling without adding to it with paperwork worries etc.