Day 1, Our journey begins
Wow, so Jen just got accepted to the masters program at University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Jen and I (Matthew) have been living in San Francisco for about 5 years now in a cool loft with our roomies David and Jen (Hi) and have had a blast, but it is time to move on. With the acceptance letter in hand, this opens the next chapter of our life and starts in motion a ton of things.
The first thing to do is research, research, research. We are looking into what it takes to bring our cat Lucy over with us and this seems to be the first place to start. There are actually about 6 months of things that need to be done for Lucy to come over on the same schedule as us and we are already a few weeks behind this schedule. Jen is taking care of researching this and we have a huge schedule of vet appointments we need to schedule for Lucy. Basically she needs a 6 month shot or test and then most of the other stuff is 3 months or less. As time goes on we will be going back to the vet a bunch for tests and various shots. In the last 2-3 weeks this gets to the point of going a few times a week, then she will need to stay in San Francisco in our place until the end of July (We are scheduled to go to New Zealand on July 7th). Good thing our lease ends at the end of July. Maybe we can get the cat to pay for it :)
Further research indicates that Lucy's tickets and special carriers will run more than our tickets to NZ. Who would have thought that pet shippers would cost more than people flights. We need to get a special container for her, aptly named the Sky Kennel, and she will need to be quaranteened for 30 days in Auckland. We can visit her there at least, so that will make the transition a bit easier. Lucy is very "needy" and hates to be alone. We call her our special needs cat. She basically sits on Jen's head all day long and when Jen leaves for a trip, she finds me and insists on walking on my keyboard or poking her head under my book while reading. When I leave, she finds Jen or David and pesters them to death. Hopefully she will handle the transition phase of many weeks where she may be mostly alone or stuck in a small cage. She throws up a lot, but not hairballs or food mostly, and we think this is stress and attention related, so maybe this trip will break that habit of throwing up for attention.
More soon,
Matthew + Jen
Jen and I (Matthew) have been living in San Francisco for about 5 years now in a cool loft with our roomies David and Jen (Hi) and have had a blast, but it is time to move on. With the acceptance letter in hand, this opens the next chapter of our life and starts in motion a ton of things.
The first thing to do is research, research, research. We are looking into what it takes to bring our cat Lucy over with us and this seems to be the first place to start. There are actually about 6 months of things that need to be done for Lucy to come over on the same schedule as us and we are already a few weeks behind this schedule. Jen is taking care of researching this and we have a huge schedule of vet appointments we need to schedule for Lucy. Basically she needs a 6 month shot or test and then most of the other stuff is 3 months or less. As time goes on we will be going back to the vet a bunch for tests and various shots. In the last 2-3 weeks this gets to the point of going a few times a week, then she will need to stay in San Francisco in our place until the end of July (We are scheduled to go to New Zealand on July 7th). Good thing our lease ends at the end of July. Maybe we can get the cat to pay for it :)
Further research indicates that Lucy's tickets and special carriers will run more than our tickets to NZ. Who would have thought that pet shippers would cost more than people flights. We need to get a special container for her, aptly named the Sky Kennel, and she will need to be quaranteened for 30 days in Auckland. We can visit her there at least, so that will make the transition a bit easier. Lucy is very "needy" and hates to be alone. We call her our special needs cat. She basically sits on Jen's head all day long and when Jen leaves for a trip, she finds me and insists on walking on my keyboard or poking her head under my book while reading. When I leave, she finds Jen or David and pesters them to death. Hopefully she will handle the transition phase of many weeks where she may be mostly alone or stuck in a small cage. She throws up a lot, but not hairballs or food mostly, and we think this is stress and attention related, so maybe this trip will break that habit of throwing up for attention.
More soon,
Matthew + Jen
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