Many foreigners in Ireland claim that their stay on the island is only temporary. They left their homes, wives, children and pets in their countries. The situation is slowly changing. The number of people who decided to stay for a long term is growing. The one clear symptom of that is moving their homes to Ireland. It is quite easy and obvious to come over with wife and children, but if someone decide to pay a lot of money (relatively of course) and time to bring over his dog or cat it seems that he is going to stay for a long period.
Bringing pet to Ireland is not an easy and quick thing. Animal has to have a special passport and special chip under the skin, and of course it has to be vaccinated. The process takes about 6 months and it is relatively expensive (a few hundred Euro).
Polish people are not the Travelers. We need to have a real, stationary home, a place we can come back to and we don’t like to move it a lot. Bringing pets, sometimes furniture from the old home in Poland means that some of our compatriots (I haven’t find out how many) decide to settle down in Ireland and not to be only a temporary foreign emigrants.
Today’s issue of Polish leading newspaper - Gazeta Wyborcza - devoted some attention to that question.
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