Brasil Otimo!

The Salome family has arrived in Brasil!
Biggie was the frst one to leave; It was a long process to get him there including rabies shot more than 30 days in advance and less than one year, a International health certificate within 10 days of leaving that had to be stamped by the USDA (all 6 copies) and then by the Brazilian consulate. We ended up finding one in Phoenix even though we had been told we had to overnight paperwork to LA!
May 26th: After weeks of anticipation, watching movers pack up everything you own out of our house we've owned for 10+ years on Desert Flower Lane, Biggie, Our dog, left at 4:15am Arizona time when I turned him over to the pet handler in Chandler. He had a giant crate/kennel although he has never been in one. He knew something was going on when we moved to the Residence Inn near Chandler Mall for 5 nights. Little did he know someone was going to show up and take him away. He flew to Denver first and stayed there 8 hours before getting loaded on the evening flight to Brasil about an hour after we left. Our flight was delayed so we arrived around the same time as Biggie and gave Jerry from Brasil Pet our boarding passes, a copy of the passport and some other paperwork to retrieve Biggie. He said if he couldn't get hime before noon it would be much later in the day and I begged him to try to get him out ASAP. Jerry called at 11am to say he was leaving the airport with Biggie. We had arrived at Casa Azul around 9:30am. At noon Jerry pulled up with Biggie in the truck and his crate in the back. Biggie was very shaken up and tired and thirsty but totally fine. Jerry said he drank a bunch of water but no food but I noticed no one had opened his food or given him his thyroid medicine the entire time he had been gone. When he got in the house he drank about a gallon of water while his whole back half trembled uncontrollably. He drank sooo much water, he coughed some of it up. Then he was in his new back yard going to the bathroom for quite a while after not going for at least a day. The crate was perfectly clean after more than 24 hours. I gave him his thyroid medicine and then I took Brady and Biggie into the darkest room of the house and we all 3 took a huge nap. Biggie and I slept for about 2 hours and Brady slept for at least 3. When Biggie got up he finally ate some food and drank tons more water but was feeling much better. Within hours you could not even tell that he was any different.

Bye Phoenix, AZ and family and friends!

Hi all, Our house at Desert Flower Lane is all packed up and drove away in a giant truck today. We are leaving Tues. morning for Brazil. Our pet handler is picking up Chianti, our golden, at 4:15am to make sure he is not in the heat for his flight. He is taking Continental through Denver and we are taking American through Dallas. We will see him hopefully about 3 or 4 hours after we arrive at Casa Azul in Sao Jose dos Campos.
Our new address is:
Condominio Quinta das Flores
Av. Cidade Jardim nº3141, Casa 36, Bairro: Quinta das Flores
Sao Jose dos Campos - SP - Brazil
CEP: 12233-002
We will have a local Phoenix phone # thanks to modern technology! (480) 282-8713 so please feel free to call and of course, come visit!