Has anyone taken their dog abroad on a long flight?

[BroccoliSpears]

If we were to emigrate to Canada we would have a choice:

1. Take family dog with us.

1. Give the dog to a woman who loves her very much, would love to have her, who the dog knows well and has stayed with many times, and who would give her a fabulous home with lots of walks, love and other dogs.

Am wondering how stressful it would be for the dog to travel to Canada. I have a feeling it would a pretty unpleasant experience for her. Can anyone offer any first hand experience?

My Auntie took her dog to NZ she said he was quite dopey afterthe flight and had the biggest pee she has ever seen .

He is a really happy doggy know and loves NZ.

If you want anymore info cat me and I will get my Aunt to email you with all the info you would need .

HTH.

Thank you Blinking.

I've heard stories where the dog has found it quite traumatic and never quite recovered. Good to know that's not always the case. My dog is a pretty laid back lab, so perhaps she would cope.

we brought our Lab out to Cyprus last year with us. She coped really well. Try to get them used to being in a cage beforehand and enquire about taking them as excess baggage with you rather than cargo. Some airlines will allow you to reserve part of the heated part of the hold and then you turn up to check in with Dog, crate and bags. Total weight is then charged at a lowish amount and you should be able to see your pet go up into the airplane- DH did. Works out significantly cheaper and dog sees you at the start and at the end. We didn't use drugs which can make them dopey.

Good luck

We took our Munsterlander out to Canada, and brought her back again 2 1/2 years later. No problems at all - in fact, bar her obvious excitement at being let out of the box, she was more concerned to explore the hundreds of miles of open prairie and chase the gophers...
We're in the same boat actually - now have two labs, and will definitely be taking them with us. Where are you going? (sorry, nosy old bag )

We didn't take our dear dog with us when we moved to Cyprus. We thought we would only be there a year and she is a rescue dog who gets stressed and sick on a car journey .
We were utterly heartbroken to leave her and we ended up staying 2.6 years which meant she had to move from my MIL's where she originally went to another friend of ours.
I have to tell myself we did the right thing for her and now she has settled back with us I do actually think that, but we had a lot of heartache over it and if we went again we would probably take her despite her being older and still easily stressed and travel sick....
(Tis v expensive too....)

I was advised that the airline will not take them sedated (what we wanted to do originally as we had to dope her for long car journeys) as the changes in air pressure and the sedatives could cause big problems.

Broccoli my Aunties dog is a lab too he was about three when they took him.
I asked her and she said the only thing with taking him is that she thinks now he would be too old for a return trip and kennels are very expensive .
They are wanting to relocate to AUstralia to go travelling in a camper van (they are crazy and I am very jealous of them lol).

But basically they are waiting for Harry to go now before doing anything .