Puppy abroad

So it has been quite a while and much has happened. I promise that I will try to not let things go quite as long as it has been, but perhaps after you hear what has been happening the last 8 months you will forgive me.

As the title of this post suggests, I am now a world traveller. Hello from Leeds UK! How did I end up here? Well lets go back in time. 

Back in the fall of 2012, N was approaching the end of her PhD and thus had to start applying for jobs so that she could keep me in all the designer puppy toys and such... She says it so that we could all still enjoy stuff but really its just about the puppy stuff. Anyway, she applied for many things but rejections were abound. Then in February she applied to a position in Leeds on the urging of the person offering the job (N had met her at a conference that she went to in Japan in Dec 2012). As you can probably guess, long story short, she got the job and all three of us had to move to Leeds. 

N and J told me that I would become an English pup, but I didn't know what that meant. At first it seemed to mean going to the vet to get some shots and a microchip. That didn't seem too bad. Then it seemed to mean that people would come see the condo for which we had to make sure that we were not there. That wasn't so bad...it meant that I got to go for car rides. Then it seemed that it meant that all of our stuff was getting packed up and taken out of the apartment. That was a little harder to take. I had to make sure I supervised those guys as they bubble wrapped everything up. Had to make sure my toys were safe. Finally though I understood what it meant. On Aug 24, we packed everything else up, drove to the airport in Toronto and then N and J left me in my new strange crate to be packed onto a strange giant tube that was very noisy. I am not sure what all went on because it was dark and noisy. Apparently we were flying across the Atlantic. All I know is that when they opened the doors, I made sure they knew that I was there by barking as much as I could. It seemed to have worked as somebody came and got me and took me to a building where I could run around. A couple hours later, J and N came and collected me. I was so happy to see them. After that we started the rest of our journey to our new home...er well the hotel before we could get our new home. This included a taxi ride and a train ride. It is so nice that I am allowed on trains here. I wasn't allowed in Canada. N and J also tell me that I am allowed on the subway in London and the buses in Leeds. I have not been on either yet, but perhaps they will take me at some point.

Now we are settled in our new home here on the other side of the pond. My toys have not yet arrived though. J and N tell me that they are waiting to be shipped and that when they are they will take some time because unlike us they will be going across by boat. I hope my toys don't get wet. I don't like wet toys...except if it is from me drooling on them.

So the lesson for all puppies out there that live with astronomers as I do, is that once they have gotten their thingy called a PhD, you may end up travelling half way across the world just so they can continue to provide you with all of your luxury dog toys.