Quarantine doesn't make sense

**Finn** · 11th February 2009, 10:31

It really doesn't. My dog is currently held up in Stockholm Airport because of incompetent bureaucrats from both countries. Poor lad.

Now firstly, both NZ and Sweden are alike in that they have both been stupefied by socialism but lets just put that aside for a moment. Sweden is not as anal about importing pets as NZ is just as long as you fill out 687 pages of irrelevant shit about your dog. What I don't understand (and this covers both countries) is why put a domestic pet through so much bullshit when you allow people from say Africa to walk straight in with AIDS, STD's and just about every other disease known to mankind?

It just doesn't make sense.

Free Finn! (That's his name)

**Tank** · 11th February 2009, 11:01

so are you going there, coming back - or just decided to give the dog a holiday?

**Big Dave** · 11th February 2009, 11:10

What I want to know is why on that ASKO appliances commercial - the one that purports they are so good because 'look how similar Sweden is to NZ' - but the landscapes they show to illustrate look entirely different.

Huh?

**Dave Lobster** · 11th February 2009, 11:36

Originally Posted by Finn

why put a domestic pet through so much bullshit when you allow people from say Africa to walk straight in with AIDS, STD's and just about every other disease known to mankind?

White man's guilt. Same as why we let people in to sit on the dole in KFC. But only if they're NOT white.

**Finn** · 11th February 2009, 12:09

Originally Posted by Tank

so are you going there, coming back - or just decided to give the dog a holiday?

It was his call. After 5 years of living a repressed life in the land of the long white overcoat, he decided to pack his tennis ball and migrate to a country where he could be free to roam as a dog without the fear of being ostracized. The verbal and sometimes physical abuse and outright racism he suffered in NZ really got to him. No dogs on the bus. No dogs on the beach. No dogs in the park. No barking at Islanders. Put that lead on. No this, no that. He fled.

His mother followed him, back to her birthplace. One of them will be missed.

**Grahameeboy** · 11th February 2009, 12:13

From previous post dogs (of the 4 legged kind of course

)and you do not seem to match....

**Finn** · 11th February 2009, 12:13

Originally Posted by Big Dave

What I want to know is why on that ASKO appliances commercial - the one that purports they are so good because 'look how similar Sweden is to NZ' - but the landscapes they show to illustrate look entirely different.

Huh?

I spotted that too. The scenery in Sweden only once ever reminded of NZ and that was when I was in an Australian pub and this Maori guy (who had been there for 10 years and still couldn't say "Hello" in Swedish) started a fight.

**Finn** · 11th February 2009, 12:17

Originally Posted by Grahameeboy

From previous post dogs (of the 4 legged kind of course

)and you do not seem to match....

And you'd know being the master on all fours.

**Grahameeboy** · 11th February 2009, 12:39

Originally Posted by Finn

And you'd know being the master on all fours.

I have a cat and a rabbit...I think I am qualified...

**Hitcher** · 11th February 2009, 12:49

Where's the gerbil?

Yes it does. doesn't it...

**Grahameeboy** · 11th February 2009, 12:51

Originally Posted by Hitcher

Where's the gerbil?

Yes it does. doesn't it...

Is a Gerbil bigger than Finn....??

**Hitcher** · 11th February 2009, 12:57

Originally Posted by Grahameeboy

Is a Gerbil bigger than Finn....??

I presume from that comment that all we have to agree now is the price and delivery?

**Finn** · 11th February 2009, 13:28

Just received an email from MAF.

Seems like an awful lot of hogwash is going on between NZ & Sweden but I must say that is was the best response I have EVER had from an official within a Government agency. I am impressed not only with how they are working on a resolution but the compassion they have showed in their understanding that it can't be very nice for my boy to be held up in prison.

And get this, Swedish authorities won't tell my ex where he is being held. Huh? We know where Guantanamo Bay is! This is also costing $300 per day for him to be temporarily held. I hope for this money they're licking his balls for him.