the worst day of lillo's life!

i was practically in tears i almost threw up when we left from shock! its horrible to see them summer. he had the rabies jab so he can leave and come back into the uk. the uk is an island which is rabies free which is why we have soooo many rules and regulations on taking pets abroad. untill recently if you took a pet out of the uk it would have to spend 6 months in quarentine if you brought it back. now if you get a pet microchipped and vaccinated it can leave and come back whenever you like. only after the jab they need a blood test to see if the rabies vaccination worked. if id known it would have been like this i wouldnt have done it! the vet is a good vet, very experienced(he must be in his 70's) and the best i found after being to a lot of vets! i think he was unlucky as he wanted to take it from the leg to make it less traumatic than from the front of the neck where the vain is. only lillos veins in his legs were too small to get enough blood. so once he had the pain in both legs jumped when the vet went for his neck and burst the vain in his neck. he had only one vain left to take blood from in the end and was so traumatised it wouldve been impossible to take blood otherwise. i wanted to just leave but thought i'll never do it again and he's already been through so much and we will always be between here and italy as my boyfriends italian and we live both places so we had to do it really. my poor baby!