Kelsey Koo came to Belgium with all her paperwork proving she's had mandatory shots and the required microchip placed in her neck. Since we've been here I've had to explain that 05/01/09 means May 1, 2009 instead of the European way of writing dates which would be interpreted as January 5, 2009 on her paperwork. Here they write the day first and then the month when they use numbers. She needed her rabies vaccine sometime in May to be up to date on her shots, and to allow her to stay at the kennels.The veterinarian was 2 minutes away. We walked in at 4:20 for our 4:30 appointment and left there at 4:30 with a passport, a quick good-health exam, and 2 shots. The veterinarian, along with the doctor only have 2 rooms in their clinics. One is the waiting room and the other is the exam/office/everything else room. 72,50 euros and 10 minutes later (in Europe a comma is used instead of a period and vice versa when dealing with numbers) we walked out completely set for another year. Kelsey came out with a clean bill of health and her new passport.
I love the passport idea. All the documentation about the dog is in one small book and that leaves no filing or paper shuffling for the owner. Then when we drop her off at the doggie hotel, we can prove she endured the pain of the shots by simply presenting her passport...and we can have another adventurous vacation!
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She is so cute. My childhood dog was a little yorkie that looked a lot like her.
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