F/Man, you took the words out of my mouth. If your dog is how you describe, I think he would struggle. If he were an older dog that was not so active and did not need exercising and could cope with heat, I might have said, bring him no problems. However, due to the extreme heat here for most of the year (only really 4 months of the year when it dips below 30 in the day time) you can only exercise at night and on the lead. Desert is not an option as it is nowhere near Doha. The standard of vets here is not good and very expensive. Our cat had numerous trips to vet to diagnose a problem which eneded up costing us over GBP1000 and good pet food here is expensive.
People might be children friendly but dog friendly they ain't. I have a neighbour who has been verbally abused for taking his dog onto the corniche. Even in our very western compound there are still the odd people who give another neighbour a hard time about her tiny dog.
My best recommendation is to think what his life would be like as I described above and then to think what a lovely home he could go to in the UK where he can do what he wants. (plus you also have to think how you would get him back, the UK still has stringent import laws on animals, I know I have that dilemma with my cat
F/Man, you took the words out of my mouth. If your dog is how you describe, I think he would struggle. If he were an older dog that was not so active and did not need exercising and could cope with heat, I might have said, bring him no problems. However, due to the extreme heat here for most of the year (only really 4 months of the year when it dips below 30 in the day time) you can only exercise at night and on the lead. Desert is not an option as it is nowhere near Doha. The standard of vets here is not good and very expensive. Our cat had numerous trips to vet to diagnose a problem which eneded up costing us over GBP1000 and good pet food here is expensive.
People might be children friendly but dog friendly they ain't. I have a neighbour who has been verbally abused for taking his dog onto the corniche. Even in our very western compound there are still the odd people who give another neighbour a hard time about her tiny dog.
My best recommendation is to think what his life would be like as I described above and then to think what a lovely home he could go to in the UK where he can do what he wants. (plus you also have to think how you would get him back, the UK still has stringent import laws on animals, I know I have that dilemma with my cat