(We wrote this during our travels but somehow forgot to post it!) What an adventure our little canine kids have had so far! We put them on a flight on Tuesday for LA via Dallas. After 10 hours in their crates they arrived safe and sound. We picked them up at LAX and headed to a nearby hotel for the night. They were exhausted and slept in the big bed with us -- until Tatum's stomach alarm clock went off at 2:30 am. Time for breakfast - one of her 2 favourite times of the day!
At 8:30 am the 4 of us headed off to the pet transporter in LA. The vet checked them out and they were then escorted around LA to get their paperwork finalized with US Dept of Agriculture and other fun places. Meanwhile mom and dad (aka Beth & Jon) took a walk to Manhattan Beach (sorry kids) and enjoyed the day.
Fast forward to 9 pm. We board Air New Zealand, hoping the pups are also on board below us. We thought we might expect to hear Tatum's "dainty little" barks thinking that they could easily penetrate the walls of a jetliner. Thankfully we were wrong.
They were on board and after 16 hours were picked up in Christchurch by the wonderful quarantine folks who took them to their facility outside ChCh. We visited them yesterday and they were *very* happy to see us!!! Hugs, kisses, licks, tailwags, butt wiggles (Sammy, not me) galore.
NZ ministry of agriculture comes out on Monday to check the paperwork that Jon spent 7 months working with the pet transporter to put together. All should go smoothly and then the pups will be able to come "home" with us in a week. (Oh yeah, means we need to get a place. No problem, we're working on that!:)
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