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Below is a guest blog post by a two-legged friend of a recent PetRelocation.com customer named Boudreaux who put a great post on her blog, The Life of a Doggie Daycare Attendant, about Boudreaux's big move as well as his experience with PetRelocation.com.

Sounds like the set-up for a really bad joke, I know. But I had to share a recent success story with my sister’s dachshund, Boudreaux (he’s Cajun). And yes, since Boudreaux attended my daycare with great zeal, this counts as blog-worthy.

My sister Elizabeth had to move to Hong Kong about six months ago for work. She had acquired Boudreaux, an adorable black mini dachshund pup, a little over six months before she left from a sweet family just outside the city who loved breeding dachshunds. Coming from a long line of dachshund lovers (our grandmother bred them for several years), it was no surprise that Elizabeth picked out a weiner dog, despite the decades of rug-wetting and ankle-nipping that the breed has bestowed upon our family. But this little fatty was probably the best doxie we’d had since the legendary Gretchen, who set the bar impossibly high with her nurse-like attentiveness and showers of kisses.

Anyway, after enjoying the first six or eight months of Boudreaux’s puppyhood, Elizabeth found out that she would need to move to Hong Kong for approximately one year. Though she wanted to ship him over right away, she made the responsible decision to wait, because her first several months there were spent traveling constantly. Doxies need attention — lots of attention, as any aficionado of the little long dogs will tell you. So Boudreaux shacked up with our mom to wait out the storm until he could join his mum and pop in China.

With today’s post I would like to do something a little different. I would like to pose a question to you, the reader, and hopefully spark a discussion that will assist our little community here to become a little more involved, a little closer.

Since you are here there is a very good chance that you're a pet owner. I would also be willing to bet that some of you live in apartments and that those of you who own your own home, at one point lived in an apartment. I am a pet owner, like most of you, and I do currently live in an apartment.