Travel with wolfdogs to Great Britain

[Vaiva]

Originally Posted by Vlkodlak

but in pages of Minister of agriculture I found informationt that this test must be older then 6 months..

Well, if you want to travel to UK from Lithuania with a dog, you need about 7 months in total to prepare all the papers needed. Guess it is just the same for all the EU countries.

[hanninadina]

http://ukwolfdogs.com/home_0.html

Get in contact with Paul (Ronnie). He knows all about csw in england because he lives there and breeds them too.

I know that in great britain from june 2009 all wolfdogs from F 3 - third generation after the wolf - are normal dogs! There was a link on defra´s homepage but they did move. On Pauls homepage is a link but only to the old one. But maybe you will find it from there into the net.

7 month to prepare papers, I can not belive. The titer of rabbies must be made, but now a days it is not so difficult to travel to great britain.

all the best
Christian

[tikaani]

Originally Posted by hanninadina

http://ukwolfdogs.com/home_0.html

Get in contact with Paul (Ronnie). He knows all about csw in england because he lives there and breeds them too.

I know that in great britain from june 2009 all wolfdogs from F 3 - third generation after the wolf - are normal dogs! There was a link on defra´s homepage but they did move. On Pauls homepage is a link but only to the old one. But maybe you will find it from there into the net.

7 month to prepare papers, I can not belive. The titer of rabbies must be made, but now a days it is not so difficult to travel to great britain.

all the best
Christian

here is the updated link to defra, it was 2008 when they chainged the law, alowing them over here.http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-pets/wildlife/protect/dwaa/hybrid.htm..

[tupacs2legs]

hi

you will need to apply for a 'pet passport' under the p.e.t.s scheme.

microchip
rabies vacination(we do two)
rabies titre bloodtest (30 days after vacine)

when the results of the bloodtest have come back(with an acceptable titre) a passport will be issued.

you will be able to re-enter your country from 6 months after the bloodtest.

it is important to keep the rabies vaccination up to date,as if even a day late,the passport is invalid,and you have to start the whole process over again

good luck

[valentina]

you will need to apply for a 'pet passport' under the p.e.t.s scheme.

and the quarantine?

[Vlkodlak]

Hello, thanks for answers. I have now certificate about rabies older then 6 months and I hope all veterinary needs. I would like to go after new yer-for 3 months. But the second big problem is with accommodation. I need short time (3 months) and with big dog. Has anybody some ideas how to find accommodation with dog? (e.g. some www pages for dog owners..), becouse generally pets are not allowed. Thanks so much on more..

[koboldine]

Hi,
where do you want to live? GB isn´t that small, is it?
Do you travel with one or two dogs?
Did you apply to PETS?

The certificate is some kind of tricky - as long as you vaccinate rabies annually (according to the date of vaccination before the blood sample has been drawn) - one can keep it valid...

kind regards
koboldine

[yukidomari]

Originally Posted by Vaiva

Well, if you want to travel to UK from Lithuania with a dog, you need about 7 months in total to prepare all the papers needed. Guess it is just the same for all the EU countries.

Yes, that's basically true for all the listed countries that qualify (Czech is one of them) under the PETS plan. The microchipping, vaccinations, and titer is easy, but there is a 6 month waiting period between the date of blood draw and date of arrival. This is almost the same for almost all countries and regions where rabies is tightly controlled, including Great Britain, Japan, Hawai'i, Australia, etc.

If the 6 month waiting period is not met before travel, quarantine will be carried out upon arrival in the amount of days that are missing from the 6 months. So if it is only 2 months after the titer, your dog can be quarantined for the remaining 4 months at your expense.

We travel regularly to Japan with the dogs and have helped friends travel to AUS and GB before with their dogs.. it's not that difficult but you just have to have all the paperwork.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-pet...avel/index.htm

In rough order, you need to first microchip your dog. Then, the dog must be vaccinated for rabies. Exactly n this order. If your dog does not have a microchip, you will need to have one put in and revaccinate your dog.

A blood titer must then be taken and sent to an EU approved laboratory. The blood test must return a result greater than 0.5Ul/mL. The 6 month waiting period starts from the date of the blood draw, NOT the day when you get your results back.

This is the longest part of traveling to GB. After that, there are some paperwork and preventatives for flea & ticks you have to give, but those don't take a very long time.

There are other requirements, because you can only enter GB through approved routes, that is in the website posted above too, you have to dig around to find it.