If you were offered a fabulous job for 2-3 years abroad?

Would you subject your dogs to the plane journey in a crate and living in a strange place (no quarantine)? Would it make any difference what age they were? What if they were your "furkids" - ie you don't have any human children?

Sure I would take my dogs. I would also make sure they were up to date on all their shots and had all their meds with me too. Like enough heartworm, and flea & tick meds too.
Then I'd ask my vet here for a copy of the records and bring that with me too.
You just have to think ahead and have everything all set up before hand.

Of course!
I couldn't leave em behind!

Yes I would take them with me, I'd never leave them behind. Mind you if I had the chance to make the journey some other way than flying I'd opt for that.

Honestly, I wouldn't subject my fuzzy child to the journey being crated for a long period of time. He depends on me for his safety and comfort. I wouldn't want to traumatize him in that way. Just going for a ride in the car is hard on him, he gets car sick. I've heard of horror stories regarding pets being crated on planes.

Good luck on what ever decision you make. If you do decide to take the journey, try giving your dog some Dramamine if they get motion sickness. This is what I give my fuzzy Baby when I take him to the Vet. This seems to do the trick and it relaxes him.

Get your dogs and yourself immunized.... make sure you are up on all your shots... never get an anthrax shot though.. that **** will **** you up. Make sure in fact to actually get the hpv
shot. Then crate them. Do it all. You have to take this job if you don't you are killing my dreams of you(ie me in the future) of ever doing anything thing in life

and then just take echinechia while you are there. It works well for immunity and stregthening your immune responces. Have a tenture of it becasue foriegn illnesses do exist and new germs can be weird. This would all really help. Talk to your vet and doctor if you haven't already.

And don't be afraid of strange illnesses and words like quarantine. That is just bull to scare you into not having a life. If our bodies have adapted this long without the use of pharmasuticals and vacinations then why would we even be alive. The strong outlive the weak so you just have to be strong. And you sound strong.

The thing about our immune systems is that once you have experianced an illness and fought it off you will never have to experiance it again if your immune system funtions properly.

I moved a dog and two rabbits to Switzerland when I got engaged. I most likely wouldn't subject them to a 6 month quarantine like some places have. I think it's cruel to expect an animal to live in solitary confinement for long periods of time..

You need to check what the requirements are to bring them back into your home country as well as the requirements for moving them to the place where the job offer is. It could make a difference in your decision.

I have furkids. If I have to take my furkids on a trip (i try to avoid that my parents are great babysitters when they are home). If I have to travel with them I have the Vet prescribe some "animal tranquilizers". I think pets over the age of 10 have trouble taking this medication, hence, try not to travel with your older pets if at all possible.

I would rather drive them there if it was possible.
If I couldn't do that I would prepare them for the trauma of the journey.

I would take them near an airport & subject them to lots of strange places so it wasn't such a shock.

My dogs have been inside a car on a ferry that was loud & scary.They coped fine & just went to sleep.

I wouldn't want to leave my dogs behind so if you have no choice then go for it.Seek out expert advice on how to help them to cope.

Well firstly I would ask myself, do I really want this job, like weigh up the current job with the new job. If I decide I want the new job overseas, then there is NO question that my dogs are coming with me. I really hate these people that say 'Oh we are moving overseas so we have to give our dog away'. I'm like please, dogs can go on planes, it's just an excuse to me.

I would prefer the dogs to be at least 1 but would take the dogs to the vet for an examination and tell the vet of my intention to bring them on a plane with me for x hours and seek the vet's professional opinion.

Depending on where you are going- can you make stops- like say the flight would take 12 hours, can you fly fly for 3 hours to another city, have 1 night rest so your dog can get out of the crate and then continue the journey.

No doubt it is hard for a dog to be in the plane and in a crate- make sure you can have some bottled water specifically fitted into the cage- depending on how long the flight is. Yes it is hard on the pets to travel abroad but for them nothing is harder than having to part with you.

My pup at 3-4 months flew from the Wagga Wagga Shelter to me and yes it was hard for her but I think better to suffer a tiny bit and to be alive and loved.

Yeah, I'd definately take my furkid, he's my baby! my frined bought his dog from New York to London, he has all shots and papers etc. His dog (who is very small) came on the plane with him in his own travelling bag, he slept the whole way and was totally fine. Good luck.

yes..they will do fine! Take your babies with you



you need to get a passport for your pooches..makes foreign travel much easier

I went abroad for 6 months and left my dog with my next door neighbors young adult daughter - she moved into my house. That's an unrealistic option for you and now I would take my dogs with me for 2 - 3 years, both are young. Probably if I had a senior dog in poor health I'd check into the possibility of a family member taking the dog - maybe not, as I'm writing this I wondering if I really would give an old dog up. Pups/dogs travel on planes all the time without any lasting ill effects. Good luck.

of course i would take them if it came to the push my animals or my job there would be no contest my animals come first every time. Would not consider this a fantastic job if i had to leave my pets behind

No - treat your dogs as man's best friend & dont put them thro the journey or the strange surroundings in a country they may not like. Is it worth risking your dogs happiness, security, well being, ask yourself. If you love them, you perhaps wouldnt want to risk it.

LOL, funny that you bring this up... I was having this conversation with my mother the other day. I married a man in the army. We are possibly moving to Germany for a year and a half. I have to decide very soon if I want to make my dog stay in quarantine for 6 weeks going over there and 6 weeks coming back! It's not the flight (I have a crate that I can take on planes - and he loves to fly - he gets so much attention from everyone, he just soaks it up!!) or the new living area that I worry about with him, it's the 12 weeks with other dogs and strangers that I am concerned about. So if there wasnt a quarantine, I would bring him in an instant. But since there is, my mother has offered to take him while we are gone. I lived with her when I first got my pup so this is a very familiar place to him with very loving people. My mom will even take him to work with her so he will almost never have to be left alone at the house. I think this is the best option for me and my wonderful pup... if we are stationed abroad.

I would take them with me no question - just thing of the trauma they would go through at loosing you. I am moving to Spain from the UK next week and taking my horse with me. I wish she could understand English so I could explain why she needs to spend the next 4 days going on and off lorries with out me, but at least when she arrives at the other end I will be there to great her. If i had a dog now it would be doing the same journey as it is I have the great pleasure of being able to go shopping for one when I arrive in my new home.