Back to the Japan's tomorrow for 3 weeks

[mmmmm...beer 808]

Bringing our son with me this time.  He took leave from the .mil, and this will be his first time overseas.  Looking forward to seeing the fam after this last 2.5 months away.

Once I get back.... I'll have 35 work days left.  I've figured it that October 18th will be my last "office day".  Essentially just fedex'ing out my computer, phone, credentials, vest, and glock.

Burning 200 annual leave hours at the end so my official "retirement" date is Nov. 30th, but... I already have a one way ticket to the Japans for Oct. 19th.

Telling you... if you haven't brought a dog overseas it is a YOOOGE pain in the ass.  Lots of vet visits for series of rabies shots and tests.  Then within 10 days of flying out a .gov vet clean bill of health.  Oh... did I mention it's $3,100 to ship our bulldogge?

Sheesh... Anyway, after working in this field for 26 years I'm soooooo ready to call her good boys.

[posty 2,724]

Aren’t they quarantined for a while as well?

[mmmmm...beer 808]

11 minutes ago, posty said:

Aren’t they quarantined for a while as well?

Yeah... 180 days, BUT as we live on a US base, they can quarantine from home.  

Our civilian vet focked up the series of rabies shots.  Knowing there is a 180 day in country quarantine we started the rabies series back in Febuary.  You are supposed to wait 30 days between the two rabies shots.  Well... the smart girl doing the scheduling forgot to thing about their being a short month in February, so our 180 didn't count, cause she f'd up the timeline.  I had to bring the bulldogge into Ft. Carson this week to get her another rabies shot and FAVN test.  So now... while we had planned it perfectly for her to be out of the 180 quarenteen before we flew her out in October, her timeline starts over.  Thank goodness they will let her just quarantine at home.

Only decent thing that came out of the mess up is the civilian vet acknowledged their fock up and said they would pay for the re-vax and FAVN test again.