[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":67},["ShallowReactive",2],{"journal-\u002Fjournal\u002Freserved-and-waiting":3,"journal-refs-\u002Fjournal\u002Freserved-and-waiting":58},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"description":44,"extension":45,"guidesReferenced":46,"meta":49,"navigation":50,"path":51,"publishedAt":52,"rescue":53,"seo":54,"stem":55,"weekNumber":56,"__hash__":57},"journal\u002Fjournal\u002Freserved-and-waiting.md","Reserved — now we wait",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":39},"minimark",[9,13,16,25,33,36],[10,11,12],"p",{},"Right now his paperwork is further along than our nerves.",[10,14,15],{},"We reserved Barnie a few weeks ago through Pawprints to Freedom — a 16-month-old boy who's spent most of his life in a shelter in Romania. He's booked onto a transport, and if everything runs to schedule he'll arrive in the UK around the end of September. Which means, for now, we wait.",[10,17,18,19,24],{},"I hadn't appreciated how much of adopting from overseas is waiting. On paper Barnie's the straightforward case — he's been in the shelter since he was a pup, so his vaccinations and the ",[20,21,23],"a",{"href":22},"\u002Fguides\u002Frabies-titre-test-timeline","rabies 21-day rule"," were sorted long before we came along. For us the wait is really about transport: a place on the next run has to line up with the rescue's own schedule, and from the moment you say yes to the moment a van pulls up can still be well over a month. There's very little you can do to hurry any of it.",[10,26,27,28,32],{},"So we've been doing the only useful things there are to do: reading, and getting the house ready. Working out where his safe space will go. Buying a harness and a slip lead, because everything I've read about ",[20,29,31],{"href":30},"\u002Fguides\u002Ftransport-day","transport day"," says the same thing — a frightened dog on arrival is a bolting risk, and you plan for that before he's anywhere near home.",[10,34,35],{},"Mostly, though, it's the not-knowing. We've had photos, a short video, and the rescue's own descriptions of him — more than I'd expected, and enough to fall for him already. But everyone who's done this says the same thing: you don't really know a dog until he's out of the shelter and out of the van. I find out who Barnie really is at the end of the month. Until then, I wait — and I write.",[10,37,38],{},"What is certain is our commitment to make things work and to offer him a real home.",{"title":40,"searchDepth":41,"depth":42,"links":43},"",3,2,[],"Barnie is booked on a transport from Romania and due at the end of September. So far, the hardest part of adopting from overseas has been the waiting.","md",[47,48],"rabies-titre-test-timeline","transport-day",{},true,"\u002Fjournal\u002Freserved-and-waiting","2026-09-05","pawprints-to-freedom",{"title":5,"description":44},"journal\u002Freserved-and-waiting",null,"8PplKrJH1jAuwSH7auIvWY3XSqG1FDbN-WcpQOUB-ac",{"guides":59,"rescue":64},[60,62],{"title":61,"path":22},"The rabies titre test and the 21-day rule, explained",{"title":63,"path":30},"Transport day — what to expect when your dog arrives",{"name":65,"path":66},"Pawprints to Freedom","\u002Frescues\u002Fpawprints-to-freedom",1788636894086]