The original post: /r/travel by /u/johnsdowney on 2024-05-04 00:02:26.

This is a play on an old post where people just kind of poo-pooed the idea, but my situation seems different.

Specifically I want to move to Ireland. I am a natural-born American, but I recently acquired Irish citizenship (after a multi-year process). So, I think I’m good to live there. And I think that, as long as I can get to an EU state, I can make my way to Ireland (with help from friends and family).

Another difficulty is that she’s a pitbull, and she looks like a pitbull (please don’t hate me, I promise she’s a good girl and that I’m a responsible owner). I don’t think I could really get away with pretending she’s another breed, and I’d rather not even if I could. I’m fine with muzzling her, she’ll just have to get over it.

I think she’ll love Ireland. I am fine with paying the fees, getting permits, etc., and following all regulations to the T (I recognize she is under more regulations than other dogs). I want to leave America, but there is no situation where I do that and she doesn’t come with. I won’t do it. I’d rather stay here with her over that. I can afford some stupid one-time price for getting her over there, as long as it’s not over $10k (I could still afford it if it’s over that, but at that point I’ll probably just choose to stay here til I have more money and my bank account won’t be hurt as much).

Does anyone have any knowledge or guidance? I live in Wyoming right now, so that kind of factors into things (I probably need to figure out a good way to get her to the east coast). I’m looking into something like https://air.bark.co/collections/bookings, which would be more expensive, but I just saw that video of the guy and his dead dog in the airline crate because the airline neglected to care for the dog. I don’t want that, not at all.