Moving House dilemmas

 

It’s a big dilemma when you move house as to what can be done with pets.

We had been dreading tackling this topic with our children, as we weren’t sure we could bring or keep our pets.

However our decision was affected by: the availability of good homes for them to go to, the sad fact that three of our guinea pigs died leaving one all on his own and that our Copper was highly strung.

We miss our dear  Soot who went to our daughter’s best friends, but we are happy he is now in a great home and the children even if skyped him the other day.  What’s more he has other guinea pig friends!

We have decided for now not to own any more guinea pigs.  There was so many tears and burials in quick succession that we felt all guinea pigged out.

But we do have Copper the bird.  Can you believe it we traveled all the way to our new home with him in the car.  It was a three day car trip.

He certainly kept the family amused.

He is loving our new home but still doesn’t like it when he doesn’t see my eldest enough.  We think he is going to have to take that bird with him when he leaves home if the bird is still alive.

He had a lot of amusing bird calls, including car alarms, sirens and the songs of the birds around our new home.

Sometimes we think it would be lovely to have a pet dog, but it would all depend on how the bird adapted to him, and we can’t have one until we stop renting.

It is much harder to rent with a dog.   Rental agents don’t really mind birds.