1 Lucky cat on his way to be reunited with his humans in their new home!
First trip of the year with 4 regular travellers, sailing with GNV to Barcelona, 2 pet-friendly hotels on the way up, and pop through Eurotunnel on Sunday morning 😊🇪🇦🛳🐾🇫🇷🛣🐕🚄🇬🇧
Are we ready for the cold English winter?!🥶😅
These two have got on like a house on fire! That's twice she's jumped in now!😂
And THEN!....
Musical cages!
A first!
A successful Guinea Pig transfer!
This is Tilly the Guinea Pig happily enjoying her first breakfast in her UK home having arrived yesterday with her owner and canine brother! 😍
She travelled in a cage with her little wooden hidey-home, with wood chip, hay, dry food, water bottle, and lots of greenery, cucumber etc brought by her owner.
Her cage was screened from the 3 cats also travelling, and on most sides so she could not be worried about seeing the road, trees, lights etc.
For those of you wishing to take your guinea pig, rabbit or any pet rodent back with you to the UK, please note that there are no rabies, microchip or tapeworm import requirements for pet rabbits and rodents transported to the UK from EU member states.
These species of pet animals may move freely to the UK. There are currently no certification requirements for rabbits and most rodents entering the UK from the EU. However, they must travel with the owner (or representative) and be declared not for sale.
The declaration must be signed by the owner and state that the animal is:
Not for sale
Fit and healthy
Able to complete the journey.
If the animal is travelling with a representative/ transporter, the Owner's written declaration also needs to authorise the representative to move the animal on their behalf, and should be carried by the person accompanying the pet.
You also need to have available any other document that relates to the health condition of the animal, signed by a vet.
For example: If the animal is missing some fur due to a skin issue (dermatitis), you would need to have a written declaration from your private vet that the animal is fit for transport.
You should make sure you carry your Owner's Declaration, plus the Fit for Travel Certificate from your vet with you for any welfare checks/interventions by Customs at the UK border. Note that Eurotunnel, who we travelled with, are only contracted by the UK government to carry out checks on dogs, cats and ferre
The CURSE of the Misinformed Provincial Vet might cause you EXTRA EXPENSE and HASSLE!
Check out the links below, from the horse's mouth(!), about what the UK expects you to have for your dog or cat to come with you on holiday this summer.
You do NOT need:-
A Rabies Titre Test!
A CEXGAN Export Health Certificate
A Fit to Travel Certificate!
If you're taking your pet on holiday, you are the owner on the chip and there will be no sale or transfer of ownership, this is classed as a NON-COMMERCIAL MOVEMENT.
You are NOT EXPORTING YOUR PET! It is a non-commercial movement of owner and pet, conforming to the EU and UK regulations on non-commercial pet/owner movement.
What do you need?
1. EU pet PASSPORT correctly filled in, stamped and signed by vet and owner
2. CHIP in your name and contact details
3. Valid RABIES vaccination that won't expire whilst you're in the UK.
4. Dogs only - a TAPEWORM treatment done in the 1-5 days before entering the UK and Ireland. (N.B. taking a wander through France on the way up? No need to do the tapeworm before leaving Mallorca. Just ensure you get a French vet to give one the day before you depart towards the Channel port... remember its validity is from 1 - 5 days.. 24 hours to become valid... 120 hours before deemed expired)
That's IT!!!!
(If you have to fly whilst someone else drives your pet, ensure your flight arrives in the 5 days before or the 5 days after you pet enters the UK (and vice versa) for it still to be considered a non-commercial movement, AND give that person a HAND-written letter of authorisation, a print out of your passport photo page (shows your signature) and a print out of your flight confirmation email showing your name. )
Take ten minutes for a little homework and read the links below.
Know your stuff, and if your vet insists on more, change vet!
I can highly recommend Juan and Anna at CalviàVet Santa Ponsa. Knowledgeable and totally up to date on all government and College of Veterinarians
Think I want to go back to UK!
Was 22° today driving down from Yorkshire.
Dashboard says 11° in Calais now. Feels chillier than that!
Best take these wiggle-bottoms south!
This is why I ask for photos of various pages prior to departure.. !!
Am stuck in Bilbao for an extra 2 days, dogs unable to travel, owner having to buy a new flight, hotels, ferries and Eurotunnelneeding cancelling, modifying, re-booking, plus 2 nights hotel for me in Bilbao til clinic opens in morning..
Thankfully, the next scheduled trip, which happily the 2 dogs in Bilbao can join, means they will have to be with me for 5 days, not the 36 hours as previously planned.
Not because of a simple human error by a vet clinic but a whole catalogue of errors showing lack of knowledge and attention to detail..
BTW, I correct what I said about the tapeworm being written valid for one year.. that vet actually put April 5th, so valid for 3 months!!!
Seriously no understanding of the 120 hour limit for tapeworm treatment expiry to get into the UK..!
On the up side, no one has died, Coco and Ollye will be great company for several days, but the owner (and me to some extent!) has been stressed by this ineptitude that has mucked up her dogs' travel plans..
Errors were:-
No stamp or signature on new passport issue page...
Incorrect chip reading date.. whilst they would have checked ths chip on passport issue day Jan 5th.. that date is AFTER the rabies given on Aug 1st, 2023..chip must be read/implanted before or on same date as rabies..
Incorrect date of birth and not using DD/MM/YYYY
Bizarre 2nd line validity entered 1 month after vaccination, not 21 days.. however this was the 2nd rabies given to Ollye since August 2022 by this clinic, so it's on their records.. whilst his old Swiss passport is lost and cannot corroborate the previous, un-expired rabies, this vet gave that 2nd continuous rabies! Write a certificate stating your actions!
Ignorance on date and TIME needed for tapeworm. They put it is valid for 3 months.. INCORRECT as its 120 hours.. but they're not meant to write that.. vet is meant to write date and TIME it was given and dog has 120 hours to get itself
2 and a bit days from Menorca to Dublin for Coco, the Chocolate Lab!
3 ferries, 1 Eurotunnel and a hotel room, plus LOTS of loving licks, total trust from the start, some very long pees(!), making friends at every opportunity! A very happy dog!
I, like everyone who met her, fell in love with this goofball! Vid in comments will show her Bambi prancing!
Love drop-offs!
Blue reunited with his nana for the summer! Sadly didn't have my phone on me when he discovered the garden, and was doing the maddest zig-zag zoomies!
Pure joy!
Blue, being a Whippet, was a nervous, but incredibly loving and trusting traveller. I had tears leaving him behind! 😅
