It’s time to catch up with our couriers who’ve been out and about on a number of short trips, collecting pets travelling from Northern Ireland, Belgium, Italy and France.
Cato and Brutus from Northern Ireland
Slinky black cats Cato and Brutus started out as a pair of feral kittens, who turned up on a French doorstep and were taken in by their kindly owner. They subsequently moved with their owner to Bangor, Northern Ireland, which is where we met them.
Their owner is moving to a nursing home, so her goddaughter, Saffron, stepped in to give Cato and Brutus a new home in Wiltshire.
As former ferals, they weren’t the easiest cats to catch! And once on board our van, they preferred to hunker down for the journey. Courier Richard put in the miles to get Cato and Brutus to Wiltshire in one day, where Saffron was delighted to welcome them.
Cato and Brutus
Spino from Italy
Lovable Spino is a Spinone, an Italian dog breed with a long history as a gun dog. Owner Mark timed his flight to the UK to coincide with Spino’s arrival with courier Ricardo. Spino hopped on board with Mark for the final leg of their journey to Scotland.
Gentle Spino with owner Mark
Charlie from Belgium
Elegant Oriental cat Charlie travelled with us from the outskirts of Brussels to the Cambridge area. Owner Moira was also on board for the journey with courier M. After a few mournful cries, Charlie quickly settled in and took to travelling like a pro.
Courier M had some time to spare before collecting his passengers, so headed to the Waterloo battlefield to take in a bit of history.
Handsome Charlie
One panel of an enormous diorama of the battle
A memorial to all who fought at Waterloo
Re-enacting battle scenes
A nearby museum explains the history leading to the rise of Napoleon
Coco from France
We collected Chihuahua Coco from Aix en Provence and drove her to London. This little lady is a frequent Animalcouriers traveller, as she and owner Stacy split their time between London, France and North America. Stacy admits that Coco doesn’t really like travelling, but knows it has to be done. It’s taken us a few trips back and forth with Coco to come to an understanding. These days, she finds little walks and chats with courier M quite enjoyable — but she doesn’t let on, of course!
Coco loves snuggling up in her cosy carry bag
Here’s the pretty girl herself (not admitting to) enjoying a walk
Coco with one of her favourite bacon-wrapped chews. Her method is to unwrap and eat the bacon and discard the chewy stick!
Rory from Belgium
We collected handsome Boxer Rory in Brussels, where he lives with his owner, a European Commission lawyer. She’s returned to Glasgow and wanted Rory with her.
Rory being seen away by his owner’s housekeeper
Some gorgeous travellers again!
A gorgeous group indeed.
Great to be able to take in a little history with their travels.
Courier M has a thing about battle history so this was a great chance for him.
What a wonderful group! This is the first time I recall an owner riding with you, but it makes a lot of sense for certain owners. How wonderful you all can be so flexible!
We generally don’t have human passengers on long trips. We do offer space on some short trips and often pick people and their pets up from airports in mainland Europe and whisk them across the channel.
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They have earned their right to be honored today as well!!
Haven’t they just. How lovely!
Furabuluss Miss Annie!! Rory iss one hasnum Boxer an Spino iss furry hansum too. Little Coco iss adoorabell. AS fore all THE catss WOW!! Cato an Brutus are amazin goin’ from feral to travellin together an beein cat-tented as house catss. An Charlie iss one stylin Oriental Shortyhair cat.
Safe trip efurryone….
**purrsss** BellaDharma
Thanks BellaDharma, they were a super group of passengers.
What a jolly group of travelers this time – looks like everyone had a grand adventure, with the possible exception of Coco who would have preferred another variety of treat!! Sigh. Oh, well. We can’t have everything, can we, adorable Coco? Such is life.
Loved this post!
Ha ha, Coco has come a long way over the years!
super passengers! we love da spinones… specially our friend Aldo from facebook, he is a beerhound and tests all the pubs of the uk ;O)
Aldo is one lucky fellow 😀
Awww……cute passengers and I know they were happy to be back with their owners even though they have such great care by you all along the way!
Hugs, Pam and Teddy too
Yes, they’re all ready for those reunions!
aaaw so happy to hear Cato and Brutus will go to a new home! The look like the Night Furies. I worry that the way my health is going, I’ll end up in an assisted living facility and won’t be able to bring them with me 🙁
You do amazin werk Miss annie an Coureerss!!!! 444 pawss upss to all of youss’!!
What beautiful passengers, as always!
A lot of horses and draft animals died at Waterloo, too. I am looking forward to the end of war, someday. Probably not in our lifetime, though.
They’re all precious, as usual! 😉