A Queensland woman is hiring a private jet worth over $40,000 (£30,340) to get her pet — a street dog from Bali — to come and stay with her in Australia.
Natasha Corbin, a resident of Sunshine Coast, Queensland, said that she has been trying to get her dog, Munchkin, a former street dog from Bali in Indonesia, to Australia for the past six years.
She said that she met the dog when she was living in Bali with her partner David Daynes.
“When we decided to move to Bali, my partner had one rule for me because I’m such a dog lover and that was that I wasn’t allowed to interact with any dog,” Ms Corbin told abc.net.au.
“I just ignored all of the dogs as best as I could and this dog, Munchkin, she was just a little tiny puppy, would follow us around because she had just somehow ended up near our villa,” she added.
Ms Corbin said the dog had to spend three years in Singapore, after it failed to clear tests to enter Australia, which has strict rules for importing pets, reported AFP.
The couple moved to New Zealand in 2019 after the country accepted Munchkin.
“The reason we…
