Winslow, our hondje (doggy), will become a world traveler soon and I'm attempting to get him acclimated to staying in a kennel. Each day I put him in the kennel and leave him there for an hour. It seems so ridiculous and he must be thinking "why do we keep doing this?" He will eventually spend in excess of 10 hours in the kennel in the cargo section of the plane as "checked baggage". How do you prepare a hondje (or anything else) for that?!
The paperwork for getting us humans to Belgium has been a challenge and we aren't there yet. I think I may have figured out why we have so many illegal immigrants here in the States. More on that later.
The prep for Winslow has been more than I anticipated, but I think we're ready. Microchip in place and assuming he decides to attempt an escape at the Atlanta airport, theoretically we can track him down - and it only cost 68 US$ - cheap considering we can find him anywhere on the globe; import authorization signed and stamped for only a mere 50 Euro; authenticated veterinary certificate signed and stamped for a measly 34 US$. Now we just have to wait for the temp to get below 85 degrees at departure time and purchase a "ticket" to Europe - "that'll be 550 US$ please". Hmmm, 85 degrees (that's 29.444444444444446 Celsius for the rest of the world*)...November, maybe.
*Only in the United States and a few other countries (such as Belize) does the Fahrenheit system continue to be used, and only for non-scientific use.
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