09 May 2006

Long Drive To Estonia

We packed the truck differently for this trip as we usually fold the seat up and put a large foot locker type plastic box behind it with all the things that would get broke if the dogs slept on them but Jinx kept climbing on the box to get 'a better view' when we went to collect Door at the embassy on Friday so on our way out of town Saturday morning we stopped at the pet shop and got some seat belt harness for them and put the seat in the upright position and the box in the back and it worked quite well. They sleep most of the time anyway but now they were just behind us strapped in the passenger seat so we could get to them easier. The only bad part of this seating arrangement would be the customs people could see the dogs sitting there, but that kind of worked in our favor as most of them were interested and got a chuckle out of our 35/25 kg 'kinderen' strapped into the passenger seats, with his/her own window. And not one of them asked for the dogs papers at any of the border crossings.