He is a big dog weighing in at 60kg but is a gentle soul and handsome to boot!
We have had him since he was a pup when we bought him from a sheep farmer in Saskatchewan, Canada in 2009. We took the picture below on the first day we brought him home - he was 9 weeks old.
Next week he will be making the journey of a lifetime from Toronto, Canada to Adelaide, Australia. All up he will be in the air for more than 20 hours before landing in Sydney. We will leave a day later once it has been confirmed that he is safely on his way.
Immediately upon arrival in Sydney the Australian Quarantine Services take him into their facility at Eastern Creek for 10 days in the lock-up - his first days in Australia will be as a convict! No visits from anyone except the quarantine people who will poke and probe him each day to make sure he is free of external and internal parasites before releasing him back into the world. It is going to be tough on us all - truth be told it will probably be worse for us (mentally) than for Bernard! At least the reunion on Sunday the 10th of May will be a happy occasion.
Once we are back together we will make the 1500km road trip from Sydney to Adelaide where the next chapter of our lives will commence.
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