Boarding kennels in Italy
We're off to Italy at the end of May for two years. Taking our two dogs - one of them an OES - with us. There are bound to be occasions when we're going to have to board them for a few days. We're going to be living near Arezzo in Tuscany. Does anyone know of any boarding kennels in the region? Or where I might find any information? I've trawled the 'net without a lot of success. |
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| Did you find any kennels in Italy, I would love to know as I have been looking unsucessfully to !
janzcatz@wave.co.nz |
| Hi there,
In Italian, they are called "Pensioni per Cani" and you can do a web search using that phrase. Here's something that I found, but it's in Italian. At the bottom they have some addresses organized by region in Italy. Buona fortuna! http://www.tuttocani.it/pensioni.htm Diane (in Burbank) |
| Jeepers, over two years since I posted my question! Sorry, I should have got back sooner.
Bit of an update. Dermott made it safely to Italy. With Snowy, our Bichon Frise. They flew Thai Airlines from Sydney to Milan about two weeks after we travelled. Jet Pets, an Australian pet transport service, organised everything - documents, et al - as well as getting them from their kennel in Sydney, to the airport, and onto the plane. I don't think Dermott will ever be quite the same again. He was never the bravest sheepie, but, now, any sudden noise sends him bolting for his life. I suspect he suffered noise trauma at the various airports. Sitting in a crate on an airport tarmac - they stopped over in Bangkok on the way - would not have been fun. Still, he's here, and he's happy. We've since bought here and we're staying here. So Dermott is Italian for the duration. They'd never seen a sheepie before in our little town. He's loved and adored wherever he goes. Our neighbours have virtually claimed him as their own - they proudly show him off to all their visitors. Only trouble is, they can't get their Italian tongues around the name Dermott. Thus they've rechristened him - Terremoto. Which is Italian for earthquake. There's only one downside. Our properties are separated only be a low, covered well. Dermott spends his days - and evenings - sitting on top of the well and watching the neighbours. Waiting. For biscotti. Biscuits. Or anything else they feed him. Which is nearly everything. With the end result that he's now grasso! Fat! In answer to my original question. Yes, there are kennels here, as ddoban posted. They're not exactly all over the country, but they're to be found. We had a stroke of luck. An Italian friend has a friend who owns a small farm. She boards dogs on an unofficial basis. The dogs have a huge room at the back of the house to themselves - furnished with beds and couches - where they sleep at night and can loiter during the day if they choose. Outside, there's a massive yard with fruit trees for them to run around. And, most mornings, she takes the dogs for walks through the local meadows. Dermott loves it! Oh, and he also has a blog. He's a bit slack keeping it up to date, unfortunately. Too busy eating everything the neighbours give him! |
| What a wonderful experience. What an exciting move especially to Tuscany!!!!!!!
I am of Italian heritage, grandparents came from Peidmont. We are planning a trip within the next 5 years to go back to our roots--(Hubby's family is from Sicily). Give Dermott a big kiss from Pearl, Heart and Cosmo...and oh..come on...a biscotti too....  |
| Wow, how nice to be living there. One day, my husband hopes to buy a house there - it's all he talks about. What a great setup with the doggie daycare though. Eventually, we'd like to bring Tessie with us if we're there long enough - 2 or 3 months. I'd like to know more about flying pets, since we've never done it. I wish we could shrink them down for the duration of the flight so they could be in the cabin with us! Da' un biscotto a Terremoto per noi! Ho sentito che faceva caldissimo quest'estate li'. Anche qui!
Diane |
| Excellent recap! It sounds almost like he is the town's dog - what a life!! |
What a life, is right! Sounds like a wonderful place to live for both sheepies and people.  |
Back again! Didn't take a couple of years this time. 
ddoban - I suspect it would be a lot less traumatic for a dog travelling from the States to Italy than from Australia. From Sydney to Milan took our two about 26 hours, including the stopover in Bangkok. Then, for all sorts of reasons, they were stuck in customs at Milan for 12 hours. But I know a few Americans who take their dogs backwards and forwards. You can organise it yourself - which we would have, had we not been travelling before them - or arrange for a pet transport specialist to do the job. Sadly, they don't work cheap. Actually, the 12 hour delay in Milan was because the vet at Milan airport decided that the crate in which Dermott had travelled from Australia wasn't big enough! I'd seen it before we left and it was certainly big enough. Anyway, the vet ordered another crate built. By hand. Hence the 12 hour wait. Then followed a 6-hour trip by road from Milan down to where we are in Eastern Tuscany. They'd landed in Milan at 7am. They arrived with us just after midnight. They were exhausted, starving hungry, but thrilled to see us at the end of it all. The guy who drove them down from Milan - named Tony, lovely man - bought himself some dinner on the way and shared it with them in the back of the van. I'm trying to post a couple of pictures of Dermott - or Terremoto, as everyone here knows him - in action with the neighbours. Here, hopefully, is a picture of him sitting on the well - or cisterna - between the two properties. He's waiting patiently: 
Here, he's standing, waiting for the neighbours to appear, getting just a little impatient: 
And, finally, success! Marina and Lorenzo come to the party: 
Oh to be so popular ... |
| Those are beautiful pictures!!!
The Dermott boy is a "bit" chubby - I had to laugh at that. Leave it to the OES to quickly figure out the best vantage point in the yard and claim it.  |
He's even chubbier now! I've had to ask the neighbours to stop feeding him. Or at least cut down. The other day, I was supposed to climb over the cisterna and have coffee and dessert with Marina and Lorenzo. I forgot all about it. They gave Dermott most of my portion!  |
| Those pictures are fabulous!! What a wonderful ambassador Dermott is to your new community. It looks like such a lovely place, too. I'd love to see more pictures.
Dermott is going to have to figure out how to get more excercise, so he can hide those extra pounds from all the treats he gets. |
| I had a word with Marina next door last night. I pointed out that, apart from anything else, excess weight isn't good for his spine. She has promised not to overfeed him.
A few historical snaps! His first day with us in Italy. This is about eight hours after the midnight arrival, and this is overlooking the main square in our little town. Pity about his bullet-head look. When I had him groomed just before we left, a new girl did the job. She wasn't au fait with OES hair cuts: 
This is a couple of months later, relaxing in the front doorway of the 15th century cottage we were renting at the time: 
And this is a common occurrence around town. A mob of school children, on their way from the local library back to their classroom, spotted him: 
As I said ... oh to be popular ... |
| I love those pictures. It is so scenic and historic there!
We get the mob scene too. There are not other OES in our area and they draw people - adults and kids - like flies! |
| I just love these photos. It's so quaint and picturesque. Dermott looks absolutely at home there and he obviously enjoys his celebrity status.
More photos, please.  |
| Hello, I am not sure if you will get this as its several years since you wrote here. We are planning to move from South Africa to Italy for 7 months to avoid UK quarantine. We wanted to stay in Tuscany with the dogs and cats but have no idea about where to start regarding an import company in Italy. Can you Help? |
| pretty pictures, I love Italy!! I'm sure you all love it too! |
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