I'm to so sorry for you, we left our dog behind with our daughter and we miss them both terribly. We didn't take him cause he's 10 and don't like the heat to much in UK, I really miss his cuddles and i think he's missing us too. Take care
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Thank you so so very much everyone. I think it has been a terrible fluke, and I will post on here what the post mortem says. He was bouncing around for his brekkie first thing, and then just gone. Would it have been worse if the dogs had still been staying with my parents and they had to deal with it........???
What really gets me is that we cannot contact Eastern creek - by phone, email, nothing - at least until monday. You would think someone would have the heart to ring and let us know how my little one is doing - better than us I hope (thank god for the doc and his tablets. ) If we go to Sydney we can only see her tuesday or thursday - and not at all over Christmas.
I think it is quite rare for anything like this to happen - when I find out (which I will), I will let you know. We have met other people here who's dogs have travelled/quarantined no probs. Both our dogs had the best part of a grand on them for all the tests and retests, checks and rechecks, and the vet assured us they were as healthy as could be and that animals just sleep in the plane and adjust in the kennels.
The ironic thing is I only agreed to come because quarantine was "just" 30 days, and there would be no quarantine at all if we went back to the Uk.
Thank you all for your support, it means so much to be able to talk. A
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Dear Alliekate,
We are so sorry to hear of your sad loss! I am typing this in tears....We have lost both our dogs Cassie 13, and Domino 14, this year....It has been a very painful time for us....so we really can empathise with you.....I would like to share this Epitaph with you, that we wrote for our pets...
Always by our side
Faithful to the end
Our beloved companions
Our very special friends
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18/12/07 The Visa man he says YES !!!!!!!
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So sorry to hear about your dog. It really is so hard when something like that happens. My cat died 2 weeks ago and everything I do reminds me on him. We are just waiting to hear about our visa and hoping to go in April and we were not going to take our cat with us. Well we can't now anyway.
we found out yesterday (friday) during our daily call to Eastern Creek, Sydney that our beautiful black labrador Sydney (5 years old) was found dead in his kennel the day before. With my terrier in the same run.
We were unable to make contact with the kennels on the thursday, presumably because they were dealing with Syd. They did not make contact with us - we were home all day. We found out in our routine friday call.
Both our dogs arrived two weeks ago, and now the little one is alone for the next two weeks, and if I visit it will be more traumatic when we have to leave her again.
They are doing a postmortem on Syd, but I will never forgive myself for not being there. How many dogs do die in Quarantine, does anyone know ? I was wary of eastern Creek after the Equine Influenza disaster, but nothing can prepare you for this.
Very sorry to hear about you losing your dog......... our two dogs aren't pets......... they are family as far as we are concerned.
Friends of ours just dropped off their Rhodesia Ridgeback at our place as we are looking after it for a week while they shoot off up to Kalbarrie for a well earned holiday; apparently the kennels are fully booked out at this time of year. If we didn't look after their dog then they would be unable to go on holiday.......... I'm sure they would have done the same for us were the roles reversed.
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So sorry about syd.
We have a black lab aged 8 and don't know whether to bring him or leave with family.
Dogs(and all pets) are so special.
Take Care
Brenda x
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hi we are really sorry to hear about your dog 5 is no age, but im sure with time you will be glad you had the mind to take them with you, look foreward to getting your terrier out of kennels, and maybe somewhere down the line a new friend, some people don't agree but it helped when we lost our dog a couple of years ago, you know i have spoken to a friend who left for oz earlier in the year and her one regret was re homing her dog. god bless its not easy x
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Really sorry to hear your news, we had the dilema of bringing our then 15 year old cat and if to leave her in the UK. My hubby said we'd had her longer than the kids and he couldn't stand the thought of someone phoning to say she'd passed away. I'm sorry that you weren't able to be with Syd.
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