Judy, horses being exported normally need to be in "quarantine" for 1 month before shipping overseas. Of course, other factors can make this waiting period longer. The lady in Switzerland who bought my "Missy" is STILL waiting for her. She was picked up at my place beginning of September...but the exporter ran into problems with other horses that were to be in the same shipment, backing out. (they had to have a certain number of horses for this shipment) So, tests had to be run again, then problems with the labs running the wrong tests at the last minute & blood had to be taken yet ANOTHER time for more testing by a differernt lab. It's just been one fiasco after another. :no: Poor Nicole is so disappointed & anxious to get Missy home. And neither one of us is happy about Missy having to stay in quarantine for so long.
