Pip the Magic Dachshund

[icyfroth]

A dachshund puppy named Pipsqueak has finally been reunited with her Australian family after a last minute hurdle almost ended the dog's 17,000km journey home.

In March, Pipsqueak joined her family Zoe and Guy Eilbeck along with their children on a four-year sailing adventure around the Pacific Ocean.

When COVID-19 struck, the family had to urgently return to Australia, but were unable to bring Pip - as she is affectionately known - with them.

Over the next five months, strangers all over the US cared for Pip until last week when she began her long journey home to Sydney, via North and South Carolina, Los Angeles, Auckland and then Melbourne.

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What a gorgeous little Pip and what lovely family!

[lionrose.7]

I love these dogs, used to have one as a child, dressed her up in baby clothes and wheeled her around in a pram, calmest dog ever, Tina Marie

[*kazumi*]

That is sweet, but how come this dog avoided quarantine?  Apparently there are in this moment many dogs belonging to people who had to return to Australia suddenly due to COVID and they cannot get here because of shortage of flights, and because they need to spend time in quarantine in Melbourne, which now has no incoming international flights.  Not to mention that the quarantine station might not have the capacity to cater for all.  So these dogs are sitting in boarding kennels overseas, accumulating huge debt, and running out of their health certificates, which must be recent = issued only certain time before departure. 

[icyfroth]

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@*kazumi* wrote:

That is sweet, but how come this dog avoided quarantine?  Apparently there are in this moment many dogs belonging to people who had to return to Australia suddenly due to COVID and they cannot get here because of shortage of flights, and because they need to spend time in quarantine in Melbourne, which now has no incoming international flights.  Not to mention that the quarantine station might not have the capacity to cater for all.  So these dogs are sitting in boarding kennels overseas, accumulating huge debt, and running out of their health certificates, which must be recent = issued only certain time before departure. 

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Actually,she had to spend ten days in quarantine in Melbourne before she could continue on to Sydney:

"Then began the hardest part of the trip. "We were extremely worried about her," Eilbeck said. Pip would need to take an 18-hour flight to Auckland with no food or water and be zip-tied in her crate. She stayed in Auckland for a night, then went on to Melbourne, where she would quarantine for ten days before being allowed to board a flight home to Sydney."

https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/travel/story/worldwide-relay-team-reunited-dog-separated-owners-c...

Read up! It's quite a story.

[icyfroth]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@*kazumi* wrote:

That is sweet, but how come this dog avoided quarantine?  Apparently there are in this moment many dogs belonging to people who had to return to Australia suddenly due to COVID and they cannot get here because of shortage of flights, and because they need to spend time in quarantine in Melbourne, which now has no incoming international flights.  Not to mention that the quarantine station might not have the capacity to cater for all.  So these dogs are sitting in boarding kennels overseas, accumulating huge debt, and running out of their health certificates, which must be recent = issued only certain time before departure. 

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Actually,she had to spend ten days in quarantine in Melbourne before she could continue on to Sydney:

"Then began the hardest part of the trip. "We were extremely worried about her," Eilbeck said. Pip would need to take an 18-hour flight to Auckland with no food or water and be zip-tied in her crate. She stayed in Auckland for a night, then went on to Melbourne, where she would quarantine for ten days before being allowed to board a flight home to Sydney."

https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/travel/story/worldwide-relay-team-reunited-dog-separated-owners-c...

Read up! It's quite a story.

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"Pip was released to Zoe Eilbeck's brother, who lives in Melbourne with his family, on Aug. 3. Because of COVID travel restrictions, the Eilbecks couldn't go to Melbourne to get her. The plan was for Zoe's brother to get Pip and then put her on a flight to Sydney.

But Pip's flight was canceled and then canceled again. And again. All the while, she waited with her extended family.

And then finally, on Tuesday, after almost five long months, Pip and her family were reunited at Sydney airport."

[icyfroth]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@*kazumi* wrote:

That is sweet, but how come this dog avoided quarantine?  Apparently there are in this moment many dogs belonging to people who had to return to Australia suddenly due to COVID and they cannot get here because of shortage of flights, and because they need to spend time in quarantine in Melbourne, which now has no incoming international flights.  Not to mention that the quarantine station might not have the capacity to cater for all.  So these dogs are sitting in boarding kennels overseas, accumulating huge debt, and running out of their health certificates, which must be recent = issued only certain time before departure. 

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Actually,she had to spend ten days in quarantine in Melbourne before she could continue on to Sydney:

"Then began the hardest part of the trip. "We were extremely worried about her," Eilbeck said. Pip would need to take an 18-hour flight to Auckland with no food or water and be zip-tied in her crate. She stayed in Auckland for a night, then went on to Melbourne, where she would quarantine for ten days before being allowed to board a flight home to Sydney."

https://www.goodmorningamerica.com/travel/story/worldwide-relay-team-reunited-dog-separated-owners-c...

Read up! It's quite a story.

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"Pip was released to Zoe Eilbeck's brother, who lives in Melbourne with his family, on Aug. 3. Because of COVID travel restrictions, the Eilbecks couldn't go to Melbourne to get her. The plan was for Zoe's brother to get Pip and then put her on a flight to Sydney.

But Pip's flight was canceled and then canceled again. And again. All the while, she waited with her extended family.

And then finally, on Tuesday, after almost five long months, Pip and her family were reunited at Sydney airport."

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I guess this family had the resources. Not everyone has, and the poor pets are stranded.