BS: Kendall/Dog

Subject: BS: Kendal/Dog
From: John Hardly
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 07:03 PM

Hey Kendal,

When you travel to the UK can you take your dog with you?

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 08:55 PM

Sinsull won't let him. :)

Are you planning a trip with your pooches, John?

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Kendal/Dog
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 10:31 PM

That's right. Seamus always stays with Auntie Sins, that I know of.:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Kendal/Dog
From: Janie
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 10:40 PM

John, I think (but am not 100% sure) that pets have to be quarantined for a rather lengthy period of time, making it impractical to take them with you for a visit.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Kendal/Dog
From: Jeri
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 10:50 PM

When I was a vet tech in the 80s, the quarantine was 6 months. I don't believe that's changed.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendal/Dog
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:20 AM

I thought they changed that quarantine rule a few years ago. I have friends who took dogs there and I'm sure they didn't have to do a quarantine, but I think they had to have every shot known to man and dog and have microchips and such.

Here's a site that talks about it. Looks like it has lots of helpful links.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 03:31 AM

There is a 'Pet Passport' scheme in place, useful for "sporting" animals (show jumping horses, international cat and dog shows contestants, animal extras for films) which lists every shot the animal has had, what vaccinations are current, what diseases the dog has had and its identity chip details. It's particularly useful for guide animals (Seeing Eye or Hearing Dogs for the deaf) and has proved extremely successful. We still don't have any reported cases of rabies in dogs and there is no appreciable increase in other nasty diseases so it works.

Good luck!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: ClaireBear
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 04:36 AM

I rather fancy the idea of Seamus as a "sporting animal." Although in my limited experience, he's more reminiscent of an obstacle to be jumped than of a show jumper.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: bfdk
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 04:47 AM

Seamus sporting?... Well, now... if couch climbing were a sport..

He'd be the uncontested champ!

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: John Hardly
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:07 AM

Thanks for the info, folks. One of my favorite potters is in the UK and I've always kinda dreamed of a UK pottery tour. But my wife would hate to leave the dogs behind and I'd hate to leave my wife behind. And I'd heard that they'd softened the quarantine thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: gnu
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:25 AM

MMFFTT!!!

(That's the sound you make when you cover your mouth with your hand and try verrry hard to stifle what your brain is thinking.)

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 08:36 AM

D'oh!! There was me thinking it was KENDALL needed the quarantine!!!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 08:50 AM

Not the Maine Cellar Dweller Liz.

XG

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: kendall
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:20 AM

I've never had any desire to take him to the UK.
I can take him to Canada if I can prove he had had all his shots.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: Micca
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:56 AM

To Labrador?

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:28 AM

My America, my new found land.
{With apologies to John Donne}

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: jacqui.c
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:33 AM

It's a long trip for a human, let alone a dog that would have to be kept in the hold, I think. I don't think that I would want to subject a dog to that sort of journey, even though it is possible to get a pet passport these days. I think that the animal would need to be sedated for such a trip, but, even so, it would be hard on a poor animal who wouldn't understand what was going on.

It's hard enough on us humans!

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: gnu
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:37 AM

You don't think the furrin accents would confuse him, Kendall? Owah dahgs don't bahhk oh yahhp.

Hmmm... cellar?

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: jacqui.c
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:49 AM

He's got used to my foreign accent, gnu, and had no probs with my family this year so I reckon he would find it easier than Kendall does if I took him over there.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: Midchuck
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:50 AM

I get the impression that he wouldn't like it, also, because since SHE moved in with Dad, he only gets to sleep on the couch when he stays with Auntie Sins (Seamus, that is, not Kendall. Well, maybe Kendall too, for all I know.)

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: gnu
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:00 PM

Now, who knows what a dog does in the middle of the night?

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:07 PM

Oi! What's with this idea that people in the UK speak with a foreign accent? It's not us, it's the rest of you!!

Pete :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:45 PM

He may have been referring to the down east accent

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: Becca72
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:07 PM

The Downeast accent is foreign even in other parts of Maine. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: gnu
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 04:50 PM

Ahyup. I have heard some of that there "accent". Even on Kendall's own TV programme! Wonder how he even understood some of it himself.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: jacqui.c
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 07:34 PM

Now, who knows what a dog does in the middle of the night?

He farts and snores and moves as close to my bed as he can so that if I have to get up in the night I tread on him. Yes, the dear soul won't even leave me at bedtime!

And it's Kendall who doesn't allow him on the couch - nothing to do with me!

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: Jeri
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 07:43 PM

He farts and snores and moves as close to my bed as he can so that if I have to get up in the night I tread on him. Yes, the dear soul won't even leave me at bedtime!

Jacqui, what about the DOG?!

(Somebody had to say it.)

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: jacqui.c
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 07:46 PM

LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: Barry Finn
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 07:48 PM

Jacqui, Kendal, are you planning on going to the UK? Leave the dog with Mary, I'll volunteer, take me instead
Have a lovely & a safe trip if you are going. Watch out for pirates, don't take a slow boat go by ground.

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: gnu
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 07:55 PM

Oh, yeah... that's what he wants you to think. Don't be fooled.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: Barry Finn
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 08:24 PM

That blind old dog ain't nothing like that ole bantan roster, nothing gets that dog excited, though he does keep Kendall from falling down after a few drinks, Jacqui just lets Kendall fall so the dog can lick his face cause he's a seaing aye,aye dog. Him & the Captain see eye to eye when they're on the same level.

I'm not gonna get an invite to the UK now

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 06:19 AM

You'd be welcome in Scotland Barry.

John 'XG'

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: jacqui.c
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 08:25 AM

I'm going, Kendall's staying home with Seamus. He won't go back to the UK in the winter - one trip that time of year was enough for him!

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 08:41 AM

Too warm for him was it?

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: jacqui.c
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 08:47 AM

Possibly - it was grey and damp most of the time - that didn't sit well.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: Pete Jennings
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 09:06 AM

Grey and damp in the winter? These days it's grey and damp all the time - the only way we can tell it's winter is by checking the date...

And this time I'm not joking.

Pete :-(

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 09:20 AM

We had snow before you did this year Jacqui.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: jacqui.c
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 09:37 AM

We haven't had any here yet - mostly in the mountains around here where they've had some. We just got lots of rain and wind but that has gone over and it looks like a nice sunny day out there today.

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: MAG
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 10:46 AM

Too cold to snow, eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Kendall/Dog
From: Becca72
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 02:33 PM

Not this week, MAG...it's 42° right now. Almost warm enough for short sleeves. :-)