The adoption fee is the number everyone remembers and the least useful one they will ever be told. It is a rounding error against what follows, and it arrives at the one moment when nobody is in the mood to do…
The bad version of this trip is decided long before the trip. The carrier lives in a closet and comes out twice a year, both times to go to the vet. The dog has been in the car maybe fifteen times…
There are two versions of this. In one, the flights were booked in February and by March somebody had met the cat, done a trial weekend, and been handed a page of instructions. In the other, it is four days before…