Well, obviously we'll decide if they are well enough to go right at the last minute, but right now the vet says it's ok as they will be with us and will have TLC both during the travelling and when they arrive and will be in one place. I'd be happier if they were 100% and we were going to the same flat they lived in before, but it's rented out. However there's no-one I trust to leave them with so either we do go this year (prob last time) or we can never go away at all. We are due to go next thurs down to SW France, or at least, to about Tours where we stop and then on the next day to just south of Bayonne/Biarritz. They've done it 3x already and usually just settle down after a while. Last time they really enjoyed looking out at the peeps in the hotel car park! Very exciting as here they look out on to a garden and trees (really boring that). I am worried about it, but we do need a break.
I think I'll go for Milbemax for Swampy and will ask vet tomorrow about Max, who is now suffering from bad constipation.....France is also an easy country to travel in with pets as almost everywhere welcomes them so we can stop if necessary.
Yes it's great that the rabies jab is every 3 years here. I know some french pets that come over here to get their passports as every year is considered too risky. The tumour Swampy had removed in 2005 was as a reaction to a rabies annual jab so before I did him again I agonised over it. Luckily the 3 year one just caused that little reaction which went away. I did quite a bit of research on which was the safest (answer: the one in the USA which has no aluminium adjuvant..n/a here as yet.).
