On Moving With Cats and also Screw You Calgary
We got word yesterday that, thanks to the geniuses at Sunridge Veterinary Clinic in Calgary, our cats can’t come to Sweden with us for one hundred and twenty days. Nice work on maintaining their immunization documents there, fellas. I mean, I understand that not screwing up handwriting, a skill you learned in grade four, is really really hard but still.
I know that it’s the EU, and there really aren’t any border crossings to speak of. I’ve been told by a number of people that I should just take the cats anyways, without the proper documentation or immunizations, because nobody’s going to check their paperwork and it’ll be no problem. A sound plan, in theory.
The thing is, I don’t know if that’s entirely a risk I’m willing to take. What happens, I mean what happens if somewhere along the trip for whatever reason some overzealous, I don’t know, person of authority asks to see their pet passport? What happens if, 6 months after we arrive, one of the cats gets sick and we have to go to vet only to be discovered that our cats are in the country illegally? I’m not certain if I have the finances and I know I don’t have the heart to put them in a lousy kennel.
Still not entirely sure how we’re going to get around this problem, and we sure as hell don’t have a lot of time to solve it.
Anyone in Amsterdam feel like babysitting two cats for 4 months? Poe [below left] and Vargos [below right] would be eternally grateful, as would their anxious humans.
Me me me! I will!! *waves hand anxiously* Oh wait… *re-reads*… “anyone in Amsterdam”…. AW DAMMIT!!! I would just like to add another heartfelt human plea to any kind citizens in Amsterdam who might have room for the cats in their home. PLEASE call Skotty and Shannie. PLEASE!
Awwww I’d love to take care of your kitties…if only I wasn’t in “Screw You Calgary”