[NAGDU] Ireland

Sheila Leigland sheila.leigland at gmail.com
Fri Aug 11 12:28:29 UTC 2017


hi, I'm so glad that you had a wonderful time.It sounds like so much fun 
and contratulations to your tiriffic pup.


On 8/11/2017 6:06 AM, Tracy Carcione via NAGDU wrote:
> We're just back from Ireland!  It was great!
>
> I had absolutely no access problems in Ireland.  Krokus was welcome
> everywhere we went.
>
> We used a few escalators, and no one said anything about it.  A couple had a
> moving sidewalk before and after the stair part.  I didn't like that,
> because it was hard for me to tell when I should cue Krokus to jump.  He did
> OK anyway, but I avoided them after the initial experience.  They were in
> the Guinness Brewery.
>
>   
>
> I managed to sprain my ankle 2 days before we took off, so I couldn't walk
> as much as I'd have liked.  For once, I appreciated Krokus's leisurely pace.
>
> Krokus did well, lying on our tour bus, and adapting to the change in
> residence every couple days.  He was awesome, working through a crowded
> shopping district in Galway.  He got very good at following whoever from our
> group we were with.  I told him that, now we're back, he'll have to get used
> to being in the lead again.  But I appreciated his ability to stick with our
> people.
>
> He enjoyed grazing on tasty Irish grass, and he tried to snarf dropped food
> in the pubs.  A person I was talking to in a pub had the perfect description
> for him: Chancer.  Krokus is a chancer, if there ever was one.  But I was
> glad to have him along.  It was worth the trouble of getting the paperwork.
>
> No one ever actually asked for his paperwork.  The USDA site says dogs can
> only enter through Dublin, but I asked the Agriculture Ministry folks in
> Ireland, and they said Shannon was fine.  And it was.
>
> The whole experience was terrific.  We're already figuring when we can go
> back, and what we want to do next time.
>
> Tracy
>
>   
>
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