When you go looking for an “airline approved” flight kennel please understand there is no airline that approves or disapproves flight containers. The statement is merely a marketing technique of the flight kennel manufacturer.

There is no governing body attesting to the statement “airline approved”. The manufacturer of flight kennels/shipping containers would be better suited if they stated in their marketing and advertising statements, “accepted by many airlines for pet and animal air transport”.

Just an observation and a suggestion that would not confuse pet owners as much as it does at the moment.

In talking to a pet owner who has relocated frequently over the years, her comments regarding June brides and moving requests struck me as very similar.

For example, every bride wants to be married in June and has scheduling issues: who to invite, who did we not invite, the invitations, the event location, the wedding cake, the bridesmaids dresses, and all those myriad of details associated with a wedding ceremony that must go as perfect as possible.

Moving pets for relocating families is no different.  June is the month of Air Animal’s heaviest inquiries and the questions, the organization, the planning are similar to a wedding and its planning.

• When do the packers come to the origin residence?
• When do the children go off to summer camp?
• When do they return?
• When do they finish the pack & load?
• When does the moving van roll away with your worldly possessions?
• What is the anticipated delivery date?
• What is the interim housing situation like?
• What do we take with us in our family automobile?
• And oops, what about our pets?
• Does our company cover the costs of pet moving services?
• Are we on our own?
• Does our miscellaneous relocation allowance include the pets moving costs?
• Does the relocation management company contact the pet movers?
• Can we afford the cost of hiring a pet moving specialist?
• Our pets are on various medications.
• Who will administer to their medical needs?

And the list of questions goes on and on as you remember you have pets to relocate as well.

Air Animal has many of the answers, and our 33 years of experience will give you the comfort of knowing we have the experience to move your family pets whether within the continental US or worldwide.

A telephone phone call, a visit to our Contact Us form on our website, an e mail all begin the process of moving your pets as you relocate with care, concern, and compassion when you contact Air Animal, the USA pet friendly mover of relocating pets.

Whether it be by phone, e mail, a web site contact or a walk in, the plea of the traveling pet owner each and every summer (this being Air Animal’s 33rd summer) remains the same, “The airlines won’t let me travel with my pet from May 15th to September 15th due to heat embargoes, heat restrictions, call it what you may”.  The answer is the same from Air Animal Pet Movers as it is from American Airlines, Delta Airlines, United Airlines and any of the scheduled passenger airlines who accept live animals for carriage.

Pet shippers, pet transporters, pet movers, animal transporters, pet relocators, etc. use the scheduled passenger airlines and their respective live animal air cargo products to move the traveling pet as well as the relocating household pet.

Those of us in the animal transport service industry are governed by the same rules, regulations, edicts, etc. as you are: the concerned and traveling pet owner.

So, you ask, ” What does Air Animal do ?”  We move pets via the scheduled passenger airlines and their respective air cargo products, within the rules and regulations of the Animal Welfare Act, the Federal Law protecting pets in the airline transport system.

Our company name, ” Air Animal ” does not imply we have aircraft or airplanes to move your pet during the heat of the north American summer.

“We don’t fly the planes, don’t make the rules and we don’t control the weather”.  Exactly like a travel agent who arranges your vacation and travel.

Being a pet owner, pet shipper, pet mover, pet relocator, animal transporter, pet relocation service, we’re all subject to the same rules, regulations, embargoes, and restrictions.

Air Animal Pet Movers is pleased to announce the hiring of the following staff members: Vanessa Jones, Susan Self and Susanne Ellis.  Our newest valuable members of the growing Air Animal Pet Moving Team.

With Susanne Ellis on intake, Susan Self in back office operations and Vanessa Jones in the International and PCS department (focusing on German pet moves – speaking both German & English), Air Animal is moving forward with focused customer service.

For those of us who drive I-4 in Central Florida on a regular basis we are used to seeing the stationary DC-3 at Fantasy of Flight, appearing to be taking off from an imaginary runway.

Saturday’s drive to the Orlando Peabody to deliver Bob & Polly, the Kansas pet birds about to join their owner on his flight to Frankfurt am Main Flughagen (airport) Saturday evening, was met with lo & behold a Lockheed Constellation four engine aircraft from years ago, sitting next to the stationary DC3.

The “Connie” as they were affectionately referred to years ago was that ungainly propeller-driven aircraft with three (3) tails, rather than the usual one. The colors of the airline who flew the “Connie” were long faded and gone, yet one could imagine those early days of long flights on the “Connie”, with those four thundering engines vibrating the aircraft as it flew transcontinental flights.

Bob & Polly, respectively the parakeet and the cockatiel, were delivered to the owner in the lobby of the Orlando Peabody, the Peabody’s signature Mallard ducks notwithstanding.

Bob & Polly will soon arrive at FRA with two little boys in Malsch happy to have their pet birds with them at residence.

The move is not complete until the pets arrive.

The drive to Gainesville, Florida on Saturday morning, 29 May 2010, was reminiscent of those many times life cycle events took us to Gainesville.  Whether it be for the football games too numerous to mention, some memorable, others not so memorable, or the graduation of a sister-in-law, or the graduation of my two children, Eric and Andrea, or the many veterinary continuing education functions over the years.

This past Saturday morning was different, for it was the graduation of Brian Clarke, the little boy I knew from his childhood, to the young man who became one of 89 graduates in the largest class yet to graduate from the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Florida.

Memories are those moments in your life that as we grow older, seem to be events of only yesterday.

As I celebrate my 50th year as a practicing veterinarian, albeit at a limited basis these days, it is absolutely marvelous to see the bright shining stars of young men and young women who join a profession known to many, yet limited to those who have the perseverance of work, study, and sheer guts to weather the years to one day have the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine conferred on them on a Saturday afternoon in Gainesville, Florida.

Welcome, Brian Taylor Clarke, DVM, to the veterinary profession. You honor yourself, your family, your friends, and this veterinarian with your accomplishments. May your journey through life be filled with accomplishments and may your dreams be fulfilled.