Pet passports

[jan69c]

Does anybody know how easy it is to get a pet passport, and what it intails. We are off to France next year, and providing it isnt too much hassel we would like to taje our dog with us. Any advice would be gratefully received.
Ian & Wendy

[john (smiffy)]

john roadrunner is our dog passport man

his done it a few times now

[Savvy]

Hello Ian and Wendy.

Here is the government site that will tell you all about Pet Passports so I won’t go into any further detail other than to say that when planning your return journey, the treatment by the vet must be carried out not less than twenty-four nor more than fourty-eight hours prior to your return journey. We stop on a friendly site half an hour from the channel tunnel for two nights – the site owner, who speaks good English, arranges the appointment with the local vet who in turn lives a few hundred yards from an enormous supermarket where we do the last minute shopping …

http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/quarantine/index.htm

and here is another that underlines the fact that there are one or two dangers ‘tother side of the channel that happily don’t exist in this country.

http://www.xetronella.co.uk/caterp.html

But don’t be put off, taking the dogs on holiday is great fun – recently, our two Jack Russell terriers have spent more time in France than in the UK.

Hope this helps,

Savvy.

PS – Though we live less than half an hour away from the ferry port at Poole, we now always travel through the Tunnel as the noise and time the dogs had to spend on the car deck of the ferry used to upset them so much it took a couple of days for them to recover. Also, the Tunnel can’t be beaten for comfort and time ( 35 minutes and you are straight off onto the French motorway system – formalities with the French Customs having all been dealt with before you board the train ).