When Sharav and I moved from San Francisco to New York in 2013, he stayed with my parents in Maryland while I rented an apartment, and then he joined me once I had a place for us to stay. We then followed variations on that pattern on subsequent moves.
In 2017, while I was planning our move to Seattle and Sharav had just gotten sick from another dog at the kennel, he again went to stay with my parents for a few weeks, and then joined me for the flight.
A year later when we moved back to New York, he again stayed with my parents while I came to the city and looked for an apartment and signed a lease.
In 2021, the solution was to board him at the kennel for a week, then pack, move, start unpacking, and pick him back up when there was a space for him in the new apartment in Brooklyn. I got him a new bed for the new apartment, and he vomited on it within 60 seconds.
Playing at Redland park while moving from Seattle to New York. Derwood, March 2018. Click any photo to see more.