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Pet Travel Scheme - Coming back to the UK with your pet

If you are intending to travel back to the UK with your pet at some point in the future you may wish to visit the DEFRA (Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs) pet travel scheme website which gives all current information on quarantine and the pet travel scheme (PETS) including participating countries, routes and airlines. If you are intending to drive to your destination in Europe then the Drive Alive website may be useful - go to the routes & maps section on this page - it will plan your route and show hotels on the way along with pertinent information as to the acceptablity of pets.

To get your pet into the pet travel scheme you must (in order):

1. Your pet must be micro-chipped with an ISO approved microchip.

2. After it has been micro-chipped have your pet vaccinated against rabies. Details of both the vaccine and micro-chip should be recorded on your dog’s veterinary record.

3. 30 days or more after step 2. get your vet to take a blood sample which must be sent to one of the DEFRA approved laboratories to check that the vaccine has taken effect. This check can be done later, although 30 days is the optimum for an accurate result.The result of the blood test will be returned to your vet, and in order to pass, the titre (antibody) level must be 0.5 IU or more. If the titre level is less than required, then the vaccination and test must be repeated.

4. Assuming that this result is positive, the vet will issue a PETS certificate confirming all the above.

This means that 6 months after the date of the blood test, your pet will then be allowed to travel to the UK from PETS compliant countries with no quarantine (and early release for those coming back within the 6 months).

Relevant pet travel scheme web articles/sites

Ledogstop - Invaluable guidance and tips for bringing your pet back from the continent.

Eurotunnel pet travel scheme - Eurotunnel website

Seafrance PETS - Seafrance website

Brittany Ferries PETS - Brittany Ferries website

P&O Ferries PETS - P&O Ferries website

Stena Line Ferries PETS - Stena Line Ferries website

DFDS PETS - DFDS website

14:31 10/09/2009

Last updated 09/09/2009

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