animal passports

trilo

hi
i am interested in finding out what i have to do to get my dog a passprt and what has to be done when bringing your pet to another country..say england for example.. anyone any ideas...would be appreciated.

Alun

To take your dog to England, or indeed anywhere in the UK you have to do absolutely nothing, just pop him (or her!) in the car and away you go. Same thing goes for UK'ers bringing dogs or cats to Ireland.

As far as continental Europe is concerned I'm not sure. 3 years ago we brought our cat from the Netherlands to here via the UK on the UK's Pet Passport scheme, and at the time Ireland was talking of adopting something similar so that you could effectively do the same thing but bypassing the UK altogether.

Information at the time on the situation was haphazard and inconsistent to say the least, with one hand in the Dept. of Agriculture not knowing what the other was doing. We were trying to do this in the aftermath of the F&M crisis too which didn't help.

You could try looking on the Dept. of Ag. website, but as is often the case, information on such matters is often out of date. As a last resort you could always ring them, but again treat any information they give you with the necessary grains of salt.

Good Luck!