[nagdu] what do you do with your dog when you go away?

[Ed Meskys]

Last time I confronted that situation was August, 2006, when I was going to 
Las Vegas for 3 days and to Phoenix AZ for 5. He was 12 years old, and I did 
not want to put him thru the stress. Fortunately I have a good friend who 
loves all my animals, and who looked after him for the time. About three 
days after I left home (the total trip was 3 weeks, but only those 8 days 
were bad) I got an emergency message to call my vet. That morning when Judge 
was being led out to park he fell over and could not get up. Friend took him 
to the vet, and the vet told me that Judge had metatasticized cancer, which 
had not been noticeable until that day, and had only days to live. I was 
sorry not to be there to help him over the rainbow bridge, but I had the vet 
take care of him immediately.

When I to go Europe, especially London, in 2014, I will probably ask the 
same friend to look after Gyro, aka Killer Dog (death on Teddy Bears). Still 
too many hassles with British quarantine. Ed