12/08/2025
Dear Past and Future Clients,
Please take a quick 5 minutes to answer this survey set up by several long-standing pet transporters from the mainland.
Whilst the demand for pet movement between Mallorca and the UK is not at the same level as on the mainland (except at holiday time when every family and their pet wants to come and go!!😅), it usually never surpasses the need for more than 5 pets on each trip, so in a way this does not exactly affect my route.
That said, at peak times of year, we should be able to move more on each trip as demand requires, whilst ensuring extra drivers.
If this goes through, it will bring on the need for companies to have extra vehicles with extra drivers for those peak times... or it will be first come, first served, with pets left behind or struggling to find alternative transport options....
This probably follows on from trying to kerb the excessive amount of pets being brought in from Eastern Europe, who are now supposedly only allowed to carry 20 in each vehicle, with only 5 as non-commercial pets and the rest as commercial imports.
This, however, is directed towards the non-commercial "Pet" taxi industry and will only lead to extra journeys, increased mileage on vehicles that already surpass 100,000kms a year with all the maintenance, fuel and toll costs that implies, plus scheduling issues especially at busy times of the year....
This is a tiring business so to have to do extra trips just to comply with a ruling that is not tackling an issue, is non-sensical!
I haven't taken the survey, so if you do, please let me know your thoughts.
The UK Government is currently reviewing new legislation that could limit the number of "Pets" allowed in a licensed transport vehicle to just five animals. These changes would have a serious impact on pet owners, transport providers, and — most importantly — animal welfare. It is important to n...
