kiwidollie
9th April 2006, 09:18 AM
Hi all
Just been to the airport to pick up our dog Harvey who arrived on the 5.15am flight with Air New Zealand. I was so happy to see him safe and well after such a long flight - I know how grotty I felt when I arrived! Anyway, I just wanted to tell people who are maybe thinking about bringing their pet over, or may be undecided I would have no reservation in recommending Golden Arrow Animal Shippers. They have been absolutely brilliant. Harvey has been well looked after (my sister checked in on them in England to make sure) and all the paperwork, testing etc that goes with bringing an animal was done efficiently and we had no problems this end.
Harvey has to take medication everyday as he suffers with epilepsy but this was taken care of for us, he was given his tablets just before his kennel was sealed at Heathrow and the tablets were wrapped and sealed to the outside so that as soon as he was unsealed he could have his next dose.
I'm so pleased with how it's all gone.
Also, our container arrived on Wednesday after leaving England on 19th February. We used John Mason to ship everything and again - we've been so pleased with them I wanted to pass that on to anyone looking into shippers.
The guys who packed the stuff in England worked like greased lightening and were very courteous - the container arrived on time and was unpacked and brought to our house by The Moving Company (Jonah Lomu's brother Noah was one of the guys who moved it all in!!! How Cool!) They had it in and sorted in a few hours and even took our domestic rubbish away with them as we'd missed the refuse collectors!
All our stuff is fine - no mould, nothing broken apart from one wine glass which I'm not bothered about and the house now feels like home again.
Everybody has different experiences with companies but again, I wouldn't hesitate to sing the praises of John Mason and the Moving Company, we're chuffed to bits with how things have gone.
Just for info - it cost us £2400 to bring the dog over and the 20ft container we had from John Mason cost £3456 and that took the contents of a four bedroomed house, garage and shed.
If anyone wants any more info drop me a pm.
Good luck to you all at the planning stage - I can tell you without reservation that it is soooo worth all the stress and aggro ....... I'm off again aren't I.
Alison
Just been to the airport to pick up our dog Harvey who arrived on the 5.15am flight with Air New Zealand. I was so happy to see him safe and well after such a long flight - I know how grotty I felt when I arrived! Anyway, I just wanted to tell people who are maybe thinking about bringing their pet over, or may be undecided I would have no reservation in recommending Golden Arrow Animal Shippers. They have been absolutely brilliant. Harvey has been well looked after (my sister checked in on them in England to make sure) and all the paperwork, testing etc that goes with bringing an animal was done efficiently and we had no problems this end.
Harvey has to take medication everyday as he suffers with epilepsy but this was taken care of for us, he was given his tablets just before his kennel was sealed at Heathrow and the tablets were wrapped and sealed to the outside so that as soon as he was unsealed he could have his next dose.
I'm so pleased with how it's all gone.
Also, our container arrived on Wednesday after leaving England on 19th February. We used John Mason to ship everything and again - we've been so pleased with them I wanted to pass that on to anyone looking into shippers.
The guys who packed the stuff in England worked like greased lightening and were very courteous - the container arrived on time and was unpacked and brought to our house by The Moving Company (Jonah Lomu's brother Noah was one of the guys who moved it all in!!! How Cool!) They had it in and sorted in a few hours and even took our domestic rubbish away with them as we'd missed the refuse collectors!
All our stuff is fine - no mould, nothing broken apart from one wine glass which I'm not bothered about and the house now feels like home again.
Everybody has different experiences with companies but again, I wouldn't hesitate to sing the praises of John Mason and the Moving Company, we're chuffed to bits with how things have gone.
Just for info - it cost us £2400 to bring the dog over and the 20ft container we had from John Mason cost £3456 and that took the contents of a four bedroomed house, garage and shed.
If anyone wants any more info drop me a pm.
Good luck to you all at the planning stage - I can tell you without reservation that it is soooo worth all the stress and aggro ....... I'm off again aren't I.
Alison