pet passport

took maynard to the vet to have the last procedure done to get his pet passport stamped for his trip to england. the UK has always been very careful about preventing rabies from coming to the island. dogs used to have to be quarantined away from their owners for 1 year to enter. they have eased restrictions slightly so now, you need a microchip installed, a rabies shot given and a rabies test taken 6 months after. we had started doing this before we left for france, but the vet had made a typo on the chip number, writing a 5 instead of an S and a 1 instead of an I. or something like that. and the UK said “no” the process had to start over again. so in october we started again and by april he was ok to go. the grandparents in england love maynard and have volunteered to take him for the summer. they are hoping that he will chase the rabbits from their garden. little peter rabbits. so maynard is going to summer camp. he will be in heaven if gets to chase bunnies. when we were living in boston, jj also had a bunny called eddie. p had made a bunny house and jj and i had painted it to look like our house. there was a little fenced in bunny garden for him too. then maynard came to us and he was much too excited whenever he’d see eddie. we had to teach him to NOT pay attention to eddie. he was as obedient as one can expect a hunting dog to be in the sight of prey. when little wild bunnies would come into the garden we would also say “NO!”. he would just sit and watch them and tremble with his repressed energy. so this summer he will be encouraged to chase them and he will be very happy and fulfilled.

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