Here Boy

Watson is now booked on a flight to Prague. He's on the Boston to Frankfurt plane with us but from Frankfurt to Prague he needs to go on the next flight because apparently the connection time (2+ hours) is not long enough. Apparently they move the live animals to a special area to check them and (so they say) take them out of their crates briefly before boarding them on the next flight.

Like so many of these relocation steps it's become a bit more complicated than seems necessary. I had originally booked him through Luftahansa directly onto our flight but was warned that the total weight, dog and crate, can't exceed 90 lbs. I knew it would be close but underestimated the crate weight, which turned out to be 30 lbs. Added to Watson's 75-80lbs. means I have to book through Lufthansa Cargo. This ocurred a couple weeks back but the people at Cargo said the system only holds bookings for 30 days so I had to call back on Nov 3rd.

Long story short, he's on the flight now through Lufthansa Cargo (at about triple the cost) so he'll be in Prague just a couple hours behind us.

Now we trying to verify we understand all the pet laws properly regarding necessary shots, microchip, paperwork, etc. required to get him through customs. We thought we had all it all figured out but Mary now has an email pending to clarify a few things since the Czech embassy couldn't really answer our questions. We'll get him in one way or another...