'Our friends paid $14,000 to move their dog': Pupper pawrents share the expensive and ugly truth of moving with cute canine companions

Happy weekend, animal fam. We are one of the pawrents who takes our doggos with us everywhere. They come with us to friends' houses, they sit with us when we go out for a drink, and they love to make trips to grandma and grandpa's house for the weekend. We wish they could come with us on our trips, but after reading through this article, we know that that won't be pawssible unless we find a magical money tree. We knew that getting a dog could be expensive, but we never imagined it would be this expensive.

One pupper pawrent is relocating from Japan to Australia, and wants to take their pawdorable golden retriever with them. The quote they got for the relocation is around $9,000! So they asked the internet if this was a normal price or a rip-off, and the unfortunate answer was that this pricing is about normal for such a service. Scroll down to read through the expensive and ugly truth of moving with your cute canine companions.

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Is $9,000 USD a fair price to relocate a 39.5 kg Golden Retriever from Japan to Australia?

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$14,000? $14,00??? That's outrageous. Who has that kind of money lying around just to pay to move a dog? We certainly don't. We know it's a service that is quite complicated, but that's a lot of money.
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If we really had to, we would find a way to do it. There is no universe that exists where we would leave one of our precious doggos behind, but that is a steep price to pay.
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