She's from the UK, we needed all those things to bring her to Malaysia and made sure before we left that she'd be able to go back or indeed on to wherever we went next. Malaysia doesn't have rabies so I'm not concerned about the paperwork side of things. Bringing here her, whilst expensive, was straight forward.
My question is where is the world, apart from the places I listed, welcomes dogs or at least tolerates them in terms of walking her properly? I'm not desperate to return to Europe so I'm trying to find out what my other options are.
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Dog people - where's good?
I'm in Malaysia with my family, including a large dog (she's a lurcher x ridgeback). I did what research I could before taking the post about how it would work for us and as you'd expect, there are some good bits and bad bits. We knew that our accommodation choices would be limited but we've rented a house in a Chinese neighbourhood and most people here have a couple of dogs so that's been fine. Being a house rather than a condo means we don't have easy access to a pool or playground though, which is a shame for my daughter.
Walking the dog has been the biggest problem. People on forums say that there are parks where you can walk your dog on the lead and that they sometimes ignore the lead bit if there's no one around. When we got here we found that a lot of these parks were tiny, the size of a couple of tennis courts, so even off the lead they'd be too small for her to really get enough exercise. Most of the bigger parks are totally empty 90% of the time, except for gardeners, but dogs are very much forbidden and I respect the religious beliefs of my host nation. At the weekends we take her out of the city to the jungle which is great, but too far to go after work in the week.
Which ever country we go to next needs to be a bit more dog friendly; being able to walk her would be a good start. I'm assuming that anywhere in Europe, NZ, Australia or the USA would be ok but if you know otherwise please say. What about the rest of the world? If you've kept a dog anywhere in the world and have some thoughts, it would be very useful.
Walking the dog has been the biggest problem. People on forums say that there are parks where you can walk your dog on the lead and that they sometimes ignore the lead bit if there's no one around. When we got here we found that a lot of these parks were tiny, the size of a couple of tennis courts, so even off the lead they'd be too small for her to really get enough exercise. Most of the bigger parks are totally empty 90% of the time, except for gardeners, but dogs are very much forbidden and I respect the religious beliefs of my host nation. At the weekends we take her out of the city to the jungle which is great, but too far to go after work in the week.
Which ever country we go to next needs to be a bit more dog friendly; being able to walk her would be a good start. I'm assuming that anywhere in Europe, NZ, Australia or the USA would be ok but if you know otherwise please say. What about the rest of the world? If you've kept a dog anywhere in the world and have some thoughts, it would be very useful.