Pets

Envy wrote:

That's such a nice story! ^.^ But something confuses me - Where was her owner, if not on the bus?

Her owners were waiting for her when we arrived. I asume they couldn't get her themselves so they asked someone to pack her on the bus.
She had a nice warm cushion in the cage and a litlle pink rabbit plushie.
I saw her owners when we arrived and they were so thrilled to see her.

black_magnolia wrote:

Envy wrote:

That's such a nice story! ^.^ But something confuses me - Where was her owner, if not on the bus?

Her owners were waiting for her when we arrived. I asume they couldn't get her themselves so they asked someone to pack her on the bus.
She had a nice warm cushion in the cage and a litlle pink rabbit plushie.
I saw her owners when we arrived and they were so thrilled to see her.

Ah..I find that really strange. If someone packed a puppy onto a bus here, it'd either be stolen within 20 seconds or sent straight off to the RSPCA. :S It's nice to know there's that kind of trust in your society.

Envy wrote:

black_magnolia wrote:

Envy wrote:

That's such a nice story! ^.^ But something confuses me - Where was her owner, if not on the bus?

Her owners were waiting for her when we arrived. I asume they couldn't get her themselves so they asked someone to pack her on the bus.
She had a nice warm cushion in the cage and a litlle pink rabbit plushie.
I saw her owners when we arrived and they were so thrilled to see her.

Ah..I find that really strange. If someone packed a puppy onto a bus here, it'd either be stolen within 20 seconds or sent straight off to the RSPCA. :S It's nice to know there's that kind of trust in your society.

Maybe you're imagining that wrong. :silly: You can't just come there and pack it on the bus without asking anybody. Maybe the term bus is misleading you. I think you would use the term coach for it when it is for such a route. The driver was informed about the pup and had the name of the people to whom he had to give it. You should imagine it as a postal service. You have to pay some fee for the transportation of the puppy etc.

black_magnolia wrote:

Maybe you're imagining that wrong. :silly: You can't just come there and pack it on the bus without asking anybody. Maybe the term bus is misleading you. I think you would use the term coach for it when it is for such a route. The driver was informed about the pup and had the name of the people to whom he had to give it. You should imagine it as a postal service. You have to pay some fee for the transportation of the puppy etc.

Ahh right, a coach. I can imagine a puppy being put onto a coach, although I've never seen it myself. I'd love to have a puppy to play with on a long coach journey! :woohoo: Much better than staring out of the window or getting headaches from trying to read/play on the PSP/gameboy.

Just to stay a bit closer to the topic, I might as well mention - My mother's surprised me today by buying two new fish. They're like tetras but striped and a bit thinner - No idea what they are, but I can find out later. We've been having a lot of swordtail-baby deaths lately..So.. :huh: It's strange. Only the swordtail babies seem to be dying off, and they're in the same tank as guppy babies which are fine - First they'll seem to forget how to swim and belly-crawl for a few days, then they'll die.

Really annoying because we have so few of the swordtail babies and they're the prettiest ones..All red and black when born.

black_magnolia wrote:

Envy wrote:

black_magnolia wrote:

Envy wrote:

That's such a nice story! ^.^ But something confuses me - Where was her owner, if not on the bus?

Her owners were waiting for her when we arrived. I asume they couldn't get her themselves so they asked someone to pack her on the bus.
She had a nice warm cushion in the cage and a litlle pink rabbit plushie.
I saw her owners when we arrived and they were so thrilled to see her.

Ah..I find that really strange. If someone packed a puppy onto a bus here, it'd either be stolen within 20 seconds or sent straight off to the RSPCA. :S It's nice to know there's that kind of trust in your society.

Maybe you're imagining that wrong. :silly: You can't just come there and pack it on the bus without asking anybody. Maybe the term bus is misleading you. I think you would use the term coach for it when it is for such a route. The driver was informed about the pup and had the name of the people to whom he had to give it. You should imagine it as a postal service. You have to pay some fee for the transportation of the puppy etc.

I did that with my cats when we moved across country... sent them to my mom by plane. They were booked in like \"cargo\", which I wasn't too happy to read on the invoice, but they were in a warm section of the plane, not down in the main luggage/cargo hold. I'm sure they were terrified, and I was in total panic until my mom called me to say she had picked them up and they were fine. I really didn't have any other choice though... it took us 12 days to make the drive, and I know they would have hated that even more. At least the plane ride was only 8 hours or so...

Morgana wrote:

I did that with my cats when we moved across country... sent them to my mom by plane. They were booked in like \"cargo\", which I wasn't too happy to read on the invoice, but they were in a warm section of the plane, not down in the main luggage/cargo hold. I'm sure they were terrified, and I was in total panic until my mom called me to say she had picked them up and they were fine. I really didn't have any other choice though... it took us 12 days to make the drive, and I know they would have hated that even more. At least the plane ride was only 8 hours or so...

Oh..Wow. 8 hours plane journey within a country? Where were you moving to/from? I know it only takes me about 9-10 hours to get from here in the UK to Seattle which is pretty far West US!