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Shindogs Air will provide honest, affordable, and professional pet travel. Pet travel Agency serving all of South Korea.

Cats and dogs, we guarantee you the best price anywhere. We are true animal lovers, with proven success!

19/12/2025

Last night big boy Ace was my final airport client for 2025. He arrived from USA via Germany, and I delivered him to Camp Humphreys, where the highlight for Yomi and Lily was, as always, getting to run around the actual grass around the Adams Gate.

Hoping to now spend 2 and a half uninterrupted weeks at home with the family.

Of course, I’ll still be answering questions here, and providing consultation to all our wonderful clients!

12/12/2025

The holidays are coming, and here's some free travel tips from us to help you help ME have a good holiday season.... Let me explain:

I don't want to go to the airport between December 24 and January 6. I need my break with the family.

BUT.....

There will be some of you that booked your pet travel during that week, Not considering that the holidays mean some services you need for your pet move are going to be delayed.

Don't expect you FAVN to arrive on time during the holiday package mail rush...

Don't expect the vet you need for health certificate to actually come in to work the day after Christmas or day after New year (They may send in a less qualified junior vet that day)

Do expect airplanes to be delayed, causing you to miss a connection and no longer have a flight with pet spaces available.

Do expect the PE plane to get cancelled without warning and be delayed in SEATAC 2 days causing your USDA health certificate to expire....

All this things and MANY, MANY more can happen if you are planning holiday travel, and ruin your holiday... but more importantly, ruin MY holidays...

Because you'll contact me in panic, stuck at an airport somewhere, either in Korea or elsewhere, and I'll want to just say

"tough luck buddy, you should have hired my consultation service ahead of time, I'm off duty"

-- but of course, I'll just have to excuse myself from our family plans, and go put out your fire. Not because I care about YOU, or I need the money from you. I'll just do it for your dog because I love all dogs*. And if you have a cat, Jin will force me to do it, because those are her thing.

So, don't ruin our holiday. You have two options. BE absolutely sure you plan everything correctly, or go ahead an hire me now to check over your plans and find all the landmines to ensure your plans don't blow up.

shindogsair.com

Happy holidays!

Leo & Jin

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*Chihuahuas not included. They are the supernatural spawn of Hades, and can probably solve your problem by being angry enough at the quarantine agents, vets, postal service, planes, or the universe in General.

04/11/2025

Did the vet office assistant know the correct way to input the chip number on the USDA certificate?

Did my rabies vaccination certificates get mismatched data when I switched clinics?

Did someone miscalculate the correct interval between my certificate issue date and my travel date?

Did my travel agent book me on the correct type of aircraft for pet crate acceptance?

Is the vet issuing my certificates actually legally allowed to do so?

These and so many other questions highlight the fact that it isn't just YOU that has to get everything right for your pet travel. You have to trust that multiple other people know the intricacies of your pet travel conditions-- something that is not a given despite where they work-- Vets study how to vet, office staff know how to office.... but to ensure your pet travel is properly prepared, you need a professional in the correct field!

Please consider our consultation service, to oversee that your pet move is correctly managed every step of the way!

https://shindogsair.com/

15/10/2025

No; I can’t choose just one picture!

I have to confess something- while I love all dogs, the absolute joy of my job is handling the big dogs.

This majestic Cane Corso arrived yesterday to Korea, so as we managed her customs and quarantine clearance I got to have all sorts of cuddles—- and I’m not going to talk about how everyone else at the cargo terminal might have been terrified of her. Who would be scared of such a fluffy gentle face????

I’ll handle any dog* you’re shipping with total love and confidence!

* DISCLAIMER: chihuahuas are not included in the “dog” category. They are an unholy spawn of the devil that crawled out of a hole in the desert straight from hades to torment humanity.

13/10/2025

US ARMY ISSUES STOP MOVE ORDER
If you've signed out and departed your losing location, you may keep going.
If you are at ANY POINT of your move BEFORE signing out, you are to stay put. Even if HHG is gone and you don't have housing at your current location!
For what WE care about: How does this affect pets?
1- If you don't have housing lined up, you'll need to find a pet friendly hotel (and you have to pay out of pocket, because your government card is not working), or a pet hotel willing to take them.
2- If you are processing health certificates, or any documents that are time-sensitive, be mindful of the dates of expiration.
3- If you had a Patriot Express booking that you were counting on for moving your pet, that's now messed up, and your eventual PCS will be via commercial- with the pet restrictions involved:
- PE accepts all snubs, and Giant/oversized crates up to 150lbs.
-Commercial airlines generally only accept SMALL snubs as checked, and crates up to the XL, with a 100lbs limit.
This means you may have to use a pet shipper (like us) to send your animal, and you'll be spending thousands, instead of the hundreds you were budgeting on.
For now it is only ARMY, but I would expect AF, Navy and Marines to follow suit...
MY OPINION:
We are so sorry for innocent military families that are being screwed by this (sorry, can't think of a more polite way to describe it correctly). No matter what the politicians are arguing about, there should be no justification to treat the military this way.

02/10/2025

The long Chuseok Holiday starts tomorrow morning Oct 3. We will reopen for business on Friday 10 October.
We will as usual monitor emails and messages, but won’t be able to respond beyond acknowledging your message, as all airline, government, and business offices will be closed.

Chuseok is the traditional Korean harvest celebration, where families gather at the elder’s homes. If you’re from the West, imagine thanksgiving and Christmas all rolled into one week-long event!

Happy Chuseok, and we will be back in full operation from the week of the 13.

(Hopefully we come back to a reopened US gov)

01/10/2025

THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT IS SHUT DOWN

As of October 1, expect all non-essential government services to be paused, delayed, or slowed.

The USDA's employees that work on endorsement might be affected in their ability to promptly endorse and return certificates.

If you are DEPARTING the USA and relying on the USDA to provide you health certificates, please consult with your vet ahead of time to discuss your options for obtaining endorsed health certificates.

If you are in the US Military, I strongly advice you to arrange for your health certificate endorsements to be completed by the Veterinary Treatment Facility on post, as presumably the commissioned officers veterinarians will be working. I'm not sure how GS civilian vets will be affected, so please talk to your clinic ahead of time.

I don't have definitive answers or solutions, but all I can do is alert you to this situation, and ask you to take proactive measures to ensure you aren't surprised a few days before your departure from USA awaiting for documentation.

I don't believe entry to USA of dogs and cats will be impacted AS LONG AS THEY COME FROM a rabies-free/rabies-controlled country, and don't need anything beyond the CDC online Dog Import Form. (and assuming the website continues running to issue the reports and send the automated emails)

27/09/2025

Our Next Big Move for You! 🐶🐾✈️

Back in 2015, Jin and I shifted into pet travel, and we’ve been supporting military families ever since. The U.S. military community in Korea gave us our start, and we’re forever grateful.

Along the way, we realized many families weren’t hiring us but still needed reliable info that the industry often kept behind closed doors. That’s why we created Flying Pets Korea Free Advice (now nearly 11,000 members!) and later Flying Pets Japan Free Advice (8,300 members). Neither group was about profit—they were about helping pets and families.

Running these groups takes a lot of time, but we do it because we love the animals and respect the families who care for them. Over the years, people have asked, “Why isn’t there a group like this for other destinations?”

Now there is! 🎉 We’re proud to announce two new groups:
🇮🇹 Flying Pets Italy
🇩🇪 Flying Pets Germany

These are the next most common postings for military families, and we’ll be curating them with the same honest, no-nonsense guidance you know us for (and maybe love to hate 😉).
If Italy or Germany might be in your future—or if you know someone headed that way—join in and share the word!

links:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/flyingpetsitaly/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/flyingpetsgermany/

03/09/2025

Here at Shindogs Air, we accept payment in three global currencies:

US Dollars
Korean Won
Doggie Licks

Clients must pay in the currency they have readily available and unfortunately, there’s no conversion rate between canine and human currencies, so humans have to tender government currency. ;)

17/08/2025

Our company started in 2016 with the simple goal of shipping our rescue dogs from Busan Abandoned Pet Sanctuary, the shelter we ran at that time.

Many of our volunteers were military families stationed in Korea, and it wasn’t long before we were contacted by military families that were suffering under the monopoly of pet shippers that were charging astronomical fees to these families that had no other option.

We decided to set a profit that we considered fair for clients and ourselves, which was significantly lower than the market rate at that time.

It wasn’t long before we had a flood of families coming to us for help, as their budgets deeply appreciated our value.

As the years passed, our competitors were forced to lower their profit to match our rates, and we feel everyone is the better for it.

We’ve had the joy of continuing to serve US military families for almost ten years, but so far, no one has outranked Boomer (class of 2018).

Although…. We did ship a dog for the UK Ambassador, and apparently a full Ambassador would be ranked as O-10. That’s a four star general! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

11/08/2025

How many times have you heard the stories?

“After flying my dog was traumatized!”
“My dog didn’t even want to eat after flight!”
“My dog is now scared of men after flying!”

I assure you, that’s not the case with our clients. Because we aren’t just transporting cargo boxes. Every single dog and cat I handle gets treated like a friend. We have conversations, walks together, and a mutual understanding.

I firmly believe that dogs know their situation more than we think they do. And having a caring human guiding them on the journey helps them realize that it will be ok.

I am a dog handler first, and a cargo shipping agent second. Their care is the first skill I prioritize.

That’s why every dog and cat Shindogs Air handles is only touched by me, Leo. I trust only myself to give them the care they need.

No external drivers. No designated employees. When it comes to animal handling, it will always be me.

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