We currently live overseas, and since we've been here, we acquired a dog. We'd always understood that we'd be here for a number of years, but at very short notice, my husband's company are moving us back to the UK in 8 weeks time.
Although the dog is up to date on rabies jabs, we'll have to do the whole pet passport thing, and the waiting period is six months from the blood test being taken until he can enter the UK without doing quarantine. So we have two options - we can bring him to the UK in March, but he'll serve the remainder of the 6months in quarantine, or we can leave him here with our breeder, and fetch him in August (when we'll be back anyway, as our kids are committed to summer camps here).
I'm heartbroken at the thought of being apart from him for almost 5 months, and not sure what to do for the best. If we take him to the UK straight away we could visit him, but he'd be confined at a kennels and on his own. If we leave him here with the breeder, he'll be somewhere familiar in the countryside which he loves, running on the hills with his cousins, and our lovely breeder will carry on his training too. But we won't see him for 4.5 months. I'm worried that he'll think we're never coming back.
What would/did you do?