How to move abroad or travel without leaving your pets behind
Moving or traveling long-term can force painful separations when pets cannot come along or find homes quickly. This leaves owners heartbroken in hotels or facing the dread that their animals will be overlooked in overcrowded local shelters.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Leaving pets with family members
- 2trying to rehome pets through friends or online forums
- 3considering local animal shelters
- 4Calling local rescues
- 5Posting online to find adopters
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I'm trying to help a friend who is moving out of the country because they scored work abroad, and I'm very happy for them, but they can't bring their fuzzy friends with them.”source ↗
“My friend is already heartbroken he can't keep them, and our local shelter can't take them due to being full until October.”source ↗
“I'm trying to help a friend who is moving out of the country because they scored work abroad, and I'm very happy for them, but they can't bring their fuzzy friends with them.”source ↗
“My friend is already heartbroken he can't keep them, and fears they will be overlooked at the overcrowded local shelter if he can't find someone soon.”source ↗
“I've been stuck in a hotel for way too long now, and I'm missing my babies.”source ↗
Where this came up
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