Despite the airlines’ best efforts to dissuade pet travel, more and more dog parents are considering bringing along their pets on their travels to Europe. Given the popularity of the continent and the relative proximity to North America, it’s a fairly easy international trip to make with your furry friend in tow. Traveling with your …
Sora
I recently entered a Valentine’s Day Instagram contest hosted by a dog apparel brand that asked entrants to post a photo and tell them what love means to us in the caption. This content posed a bit of a challenge for me, in the context of Laila and love. Before Sora died, I’d write these …
Sora Hocholongo, née Gracie, and affectionately also known as Borba, Borbatov, and the Toffee celebrated her chosen birth date on January 24th 2005. With bravery, dignity, and yes, grace, she made her way peacefully to the Rainbow Bridge on October 10th, 2018. Picked up as a three-year-old stray in 2008 in Tri Cities, WA, found …
Sora’s cancer story is long, frustrating, and also fortunate, in many ways, given that she is still with us today and otherwise healthy. We first noticed her cancer in 2015 and it’s come back four times since. We have talked about it in bits and pieces as it happens on social media, but have never …
Moving to Europe with a dog can be quite a lot of work. We never considered not bringing Sora along. She’s part of our life at home, and we were determined to make her part of our life on the road. Knowing that we would need to get started on veterinary requirements for bringing Sora …
Dave is a bit of a weather worrier. He frequently checks the forecast and frets about supposed incoming rain or wind or heat. Then he tells me about the weather, shoving his phone in my face to prove the disaster on the horizon. I typically glance over and say, “hmmm.” Actually, that’s a lie. I …
Sora spends a lot of time on her bed. It lines the bottom of her trailer while we ride anywhere from four to eight hours each day and she sleeps on it at the foot of our tent each night. Our bicycle journey required a reliable bed that was lightweight, waterproof, and durable. Kurgo’s Loft …