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But you’d put them in your car and take the time to take them to a pound even though you know their owned?? I just don’t understand that, wild animals roam. Here you see cats everywhere

That’s an extremely kind offer thank you very much re our animals. When you say if I am still around next year - are you considering leaving aus?

Thank you yes we have spoken to our agent and he knows that we won’t move without the right price which is another reason why we are activating the visa in April so that we aren’t rushed by the visa time. I saw someone’s note about cats being picked up by neighbours and taken to the pound and now I can’t find the post - but why on earth does that open???

Wow that’s so helpful thank u, I’m worried that this would be a nightmare with children and their friends leaving doors open and cats escaping

So if you’re not entitled to it , how much is a prescription then

And to sound silly. - a health care card is a Medicare card ?

Jesus that would terrify me. Our cats here don’t seem to bring stuff in, a few years ago they brought in a bird and a frog but not happened in ages. Wouldn’t a snake kill them?!

How much is your average prescription ? Here it’s about £8 children and contraception are free

VeryStormy, you have a wealth of helpful info, I’m starting to look into this too! Do you mind me asking when u left UK? How do you find the health system compared? I don’t understand Medicare very well and plan on getting to grips with it. If you get bulk billing and u don’t pay then why when not bulk billing do you only get half back?

Hi guys , what’s your experience of owning cats and dogs in aus? We are bringing ours with us from (please save any responses about leaving them behind) But someone has said cats will likely be shot ??? We are locating about 1/2 hours outside Sydney. They are outdoor cats but sleep inside over night

I’d be interested to know other people’s experience of cats as I saw many cats in Sydney suburbs

In your shoes, I'd be putting the cats' happiness ahead of your own. If they come to Australia, they will need to be confined in your garden at the very least, and possibly in some kind of run. If you let them roam, especially in a rural area, they are liable to get shot. While they will miss you, cats adapt well to being rehomed and they'll be happier if they can continue to be outdoor cats in a climate and environment they know. We are living about an hour outside Sydney - many people have cats that live happily and live outside

Ha ha so they have 2 of those cabins in the garden (large ish) garden and of course my father in law has filled them with his stuff , he over takes areas with his ‘work’ or boxes of stuff to sort and doesn’t hugely care about others. In terms of property- can only go on what our local agent who sold us the property said and it’s all good at the moment but not as good as initial growth. We bought for 460 in 2015 and now we are looking at 500-515 Our cats do go out but are also litter trained as they don’t go out at night. My husband wants to make them house cats but can’t imagine living in a place where you constantly have to watch the doors being opened

So I feel like I need to summarise my issue because I didn’t give enough information before; Visa is in hand, animals are coming - not negotiable and we have started the process. All our money is tied up in our house and hopefully if the market is kind to us we could take £265,000 equity from it’s sale. My husband is tied into his job until October 2019 but a big bonus coming November 2019 so we are staying until then. Because of his timeline we have to take a trip to activate our visas in April and we will use this time to narrow down where we will live so that as November draws near my hubby can start looking for a job nearby. As a teacher I can’t do much more until I land with an address to register with. We have a small amount of savings by the time we go , I don’t take the big bonus into account because I don’t want to depend on that and you never know , so we need that savings to get us there and pay a Bond on arrival , we need our equity to get a car , perhaps cover a few months rent who knows. So leaving with it on the market is not an option, we can sell early but we risk the price and then paying for short term rental here . I realise as I write this that I don’t think there’s a magic perfect answer unless our in-laws cave and trust me this is not prefect either! My father in law is an absolute pain in the backside and as someone who works with SEN children he definitely has some type of undiagnosed social condition! So perhaps I’m just using you lovely people to rant at (apologies) my husband didn’t wanna talk about it last night as typical me I bring these things up about 20 minute before bedtime hoping for a magical solution and then get annoyed when he doesn’t have it! Has anyone used a relocation agent before ? Thank you for reading and offering all your advice - more is always welcome but I’m afraid no more advice about leaving animals behind

Just not an option for us; we’ve had them for 8 years - our dog has medical issues (nothing that stops her from coming) - no one would want her. Our cats are amazing and that’s why they are coming. Yes it’s a pain in the butt but we made a commitment when we got them and we plan on following through.

Hi if u see my post below yours, they have a huge house , 7 beds , they are retired and live 10 Minutes away but said no due to our animals. Which really upset us because when we lived there as a couple before getting married we had a dog there. They don’t want us to go and I think are being difficult on purpose. No other family is an option

Wow that all sounds amazing. I hear that it will be very difficult to secure a rental with animals regardless so I was worried about finding air b&b for instance out there and our time in it running out before we find a rental and it being booked up and just not having anywhere to go with a child and animals before our rental is ready /found ? Our pets will spend 10 days in quarantine , 2/3 days flying so we’d end up putting them in kennels here ; do able definitely but an added cost and stress for them. I talked to my husband about selling early to take the pressure off but because of Brexit he thinks we should give the housing market as much time as possible as he imagines things may change next year before we leave and he doesn’t want to lose out on what we can bring over in terms of equity. I notified spmeone quoted research on site manager jobs, my husband is a project manager , is there a way for me to find out how that profession has done on employability ?

Yes my husband is tied into his job ; if we leave early he has to repay recruitment costs and all training plus he misses out on a very good bonus

Our animals are our family ; no way we are leaving them behind, the trip in April is necessary as it’s activation trip , without it our visa gets cancelled otherwise we wouldn’t do it and would save the money

Yes I’m hoping it won’t be a problem because I’d like to spend as little of the money in our house as possible and save it for when we want to buy out there

My husband works in construction as a project manager and I teach but we’d both even get desk jobs or bar work if needs be.

See that would be ideal but I’d be terrified about something happening and it turning into a longer term problem. We did think about putting a months completion on the property because once you’ve exchanged you’re unlikely to fall through and then you have a definite month to get your flight. Worse comes to worse the animals go into kennels here for a few days or Fly ahead of us. The problem is like someone wrote below we will have almost no money to our name especially with shipping animals and our stuff so it’s so risky for us to go without it being sold, I think I’d be a mess on the plane knowing we had no money on the other side and no jobs ...

Unfortunately we’d end up paying six month rental and as my husband will be working in his current job up until the week before we go we need something in this area and it’s double the cost of our mortgage at the moment to get air b&b, 6 month rentals seem ok but we may only need it for a month which seems like a crazy waste of money.

We are heading out in April to scout out places to live so hopefully that will be narrowed down and then use a relocation agent to help us find a property that’ll accept animals