Bloodtest

[michaelundinaeichhorn]

Originally Posted by shelley

I am infact I spoke to Pavel on the phone and he said that he thinks it will be 2-3 weeks tops 1 month....
is it different everywhere?

He is right, the bloodtest takes only a few days (it doesn´t show if rabies or not but if the antibodytiter against rabies is high enough) but for UK you have to have 6 month between the taking of the blood sample and the import of the dog. What is pretty stupid but the official reason is the long incubation period of rabies, you can´t differ for sure with one test if the antibodytiter is because of a natural infection or of a vaccination. The inofficial reason was that there have been a lot of people making a living out of quaranteen kennels that had to get something instead, so now you have to wait the former quarantine time, you have to enter the country about special airports and ports and somebody especially authoricised has to check all your papers (very often nobody cares about it at the border). And all of it costs a lot of money. But as you can read up in former postings wolfdogs aren´t allowed at all at the moment - not as normal pet dogs - in the UK.
In Sweden and Norway it´s a little bit easier.

Ina