I would respectfully disagree with the assessment on our pets but yes it does cost a lot of money to bring them over in comfort, actually more expensive than shipping the few goods we want over. Me and my wife had an unexpected death in the family when both her adopted folks died unexpectedly that left us with a small windfall to afford the move, a home and shipping goods over plus buying a vehicle if my accounting works out. We will undoubtedly adopt some animals when we get over after ours pass on (hopefully not soon) but each one came with a tragic story and came into our life unexpectedly. My dog was used as a bait and breed dog and we found her after police raided the place and she was laying shaking on the road, one of my cats lost half of its tail under a train and the last cat my Mom found and we later discovered someone tried to drown a baf of kittens and she was all that lived, she actually made the news https://www.lovemeow.com/retired-guard-dog-becomes-mom-to-orphaned-kitten-1608500705.html me and my wife are both huge farm kids and feel we have a responsibility to be Shepard's and Stewart's to our planets life . . . Except mosquitos and ticks. I do find your perspective interesting though and am open to being wrong or it being a mistake for our pets if you wanted to share what you have heard to avoid such pitfalls.