Educating the Wheelers

Free Money Finance likes to post about the true financial costs of owning a pet. I guess I’ve got more fuel for his fire today.

We have two dogs and a cat. The cat is the easy part. I’ve had her for about 6 years, and she’s lived in three different states with me and doesn’t mind the cross-country moves.

But she’s also less than a quarter the weight of the dogs. And they’re, well, dogs. The issue we’re currently running into is that the kids and I are heading up North this week, before the house goes on the market, so once we have it all cleaned up and ready, we don’t have to worry about cleaning up after Hurricane Audrey every time someone wants to tour.

Since we can’t just leave the dogs in the house or the backyard if people want to tour, and I won’t be there to take them out for a ride in the car, we either need to kennel them in the house, out of the house, or send them up north. Well, I don’t want two big dogs barking at strangers from kennels inside the house, that wouldn’t be the greatest sales tool. And kenneling two large dogs is expensive, between 40-60 dollars a day. That leaves flying them up north with us, there are a few companies that do that, but some of them won’t ship when the temperature is over 85 degrees. Okay, this is Texas late summer. That isn’t going to work.

So that leaves us an option like Pet Air Carrier, who ship them in the air conditioned part of the plane.

Hmm. Should I just tell you how much this is going to cost? Or would anyone like to guess in the comments, and I’ll post it later …