[Gpdd] [MISCELLANEOUS] Rodney's Travel Journal Part 5

[Hala Annette]

We had to go through customs inspection because we were bringing an animal in. We also marked that we had vegetables. I knew you couldn’t bring fruit into California, but I didn’t remember vegetables. The customs people were very nice. The lady recognized he was a guinea pig right away and said she used to have guinea pigs. I don’t think they had ever had one come through customs before, but they didn’t have a problem with it. They told us we had to give up all the vegetables and the grass! At first they said we would have to give up the food too. They scanned our suitcases and were going to take the box of food out but there was some commotion and they never got it.  (A break for us.)  We surrendered the bags of grass and vegetables from our backpacks. Then they said we had to get all the grass out of the kennel! It’s a good thing we had the extra towel and kennel liner. We got him to walk out of the kennel onto his towel and I held him while the guy pulled the liner out
 and attempted to shake it off into the trash. Rodney was soooo happy to be held and I was sooooo happy to hold him. We put the fresh kennel liner in which was good because the old one had been in there for about 18 hours and smelled awful. The guy said we could keep some food because he figured it didn’t have any meat product. Little did he know that we still had all the food.  We gave Rodney kisses and told him he was a brave boy and he just had to go on one more airplane. Then we put him back in the kennel and spent the next hour running all over San Francisco Intl. trying to figure out where to re-check Rodney. Nobody knew anything. We had a short layover and were beginning to panic when we finally found the right counter. The guy there slapped several new “Animal” and “Up” stickers on the kennel and then he had to walk us down to the TSA station so they could swab the kennel for explosives. 


  To be continued
  

 
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