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24/01/2025

I have always been accused of having a big head. It is a pleasure to be able to have picture evidence that it isn’t the biggest! Thanks Attila. Only big skulls guys like us know the struggle of finding hats that fit!

Attila travelled from USA to Germany, to Korea, intimidating all the transport workers he encountered along the way. Except me. I fear no dogs* and no dogs fear me.
*Chihuahuas not included.

20/01/2025

---WARNING FOR ALL PETS INBOUND TO INCHEON AIRPORT FROM JANUARY 24 TO JANUARY 30---

If you are importing pets during those days as "accompanied" (via checked baggage or carrry-on), please ensure your documents are ABSOLUTELY PERFECT! During this period, the quarantine holding management offices will be closed, so if your pet gets detained due to faulty paperwork, they won't be able to start the correction process till the 31st, adding difficult days to your pets' detainment.

You can hire our document check services if you want make 100% sure your papers are perfect!
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If during those days you are importing pets via unaccompanied (manifest) cargo, what are you doing?? You didn't hire us to provide inbound services, and your pets are in for a world of pain!

Happy Lunar New Year!

01/01/2025

Happy 2025! Here's a video of some of our 2024 memories. Thank you to all our clients who trusted us with your babies! Bonus: Check out our custom official "Shindogs Air" Theme Song!!!

27/12/2024

IATA is the world authority when it comes to air transport. They have a very clear stance AGAINST sedation of pets in transit.

Sedation & use of tranquilizers on pets

It has been a long standing practice of IATA and its constituent carriers to discourage the use of sedatives and tranquilizers in animals to be transported either as cargo or as cabin baggage due to the potential for adverse effects during transport. This view is endorsed by veterinary organizations such as the American Veterinary Medical Association.

In general, these drugs are administered prior to or during air transport to minimize the potential for undesirable behavior. Most commonly, drugs such as acepromizine which is in the phenothiazine class of drugs or benzodiazopam have been commonly prescribed. Of the two, acepromizine has the longest history of use given its rapid action and neuroleptic mode of action. It depresses motor activity as well as the sympathetic nervous system. Animals administered this drug often lose their righting ability and their sense of balance as a function of dose. Depending upon the dosage, they can lose the ability to position themselves and are susceptible to injury as well as obstruction of the airway due to abnormal postures. While this drug has a number of legitimate clinical usages and can be helpful in minimizing aggressive behavior as well as facilitating the induction of anesthesia with other agents, its use without frequent or continual observation of the animal can lead to situations where the animal’s life can be threatened.

Other neuropharmacologic agents such as amitriptyline (an antidepressant) and chlordiazepoxide (an anti-anxiety agent) singly or in combination have also been used to alter behavior in dogs and other animals. Like other drugs, they have some side effects that can be problematic when used in higher dosages including cardiac dysrhythmia, hypotension, CNS depression, and rarely convulsions. These agents, as well as tricyclic antidepressants such as clomipramine (aka Anafranil) which has a veterinary counterpart—Clomicalm, have been approved by the FDA for treating separation anxiety.

These drugs that are used to treat inappropriate behavior in pets must be administered for a period of weeks before changes will likely be noted in pet behavior. Animals that have been placed on these drugs to address behavioral problems at home may continue to have the benefit of the medication even though it has not been given during transit.

It is not established, and probably is unlikely, that tricyclic antidepressants or other available psychotherapeutic agents will reliably alleviate the risk of panic attacks and destructive behavior while in transit. While heavy sedation with all of its associated risks might be able to accomplish this, deciding upon the appropriate dosage to maintain the desired effect over a long and perhaps variable transit time in a varying transit environment and with little chance of re-dosing or adequate observation would either put the animal at risk or may not adequately address the potential for undesirable behavior.

IATA therefore continues to endorse recommendations not to sedate or tranquilize pets or other animals in transit specifically for the purposes of potentially preventing panic attacks or destructive behavior during that period of carriage. If sedation or tranquilization is to be done specifically for the journey for valid medical reasons, it needs to be done under the direction of a veterinarian and the administration of drugs - including time and dosage level—be noted on the health certificate. If such medications are to be used, this should be done only in those shipments accompanied by trained individuals appropriately certified/licensed to administer these drugs and when the ability to take emergency actions in the event of adverse events, exists or is possible.

Are you traveling with your pet or planning to ship your animal? Here you have advice on the choice of a container and the preparation of the animal

24/12/2024

What happens when you ask AI to review our company?

Here’s Google AI’s opinion of us. We welcome our future overlords :)

(Asking the same question regarding our competitors was interesting too, but we don’t like to speak ill of others)

29/11/2024

On this weekend of what we are thankful for, I'd like to take a minute to speak on behalf of a group of people I know very well... your pets.

The past 15 years I've worked professionally in animal rescue, and since 2016 as a full time pet shipper. And in those years, one thing I know categorically to be true: Dogs love their families. To a dog, staying with their family is worth any cost. They'll deal with flights, with changing houses, with changing continents. But to dogs, the one cornerstone of their existence is being present next their bonded humans. For twentysix thousand years, their every fiber, every cell, every neuron has evolved to love you, their family.

I've seen dog literally curl up and die of heartbreak when abandoned. Literally. I've seen dogs in pounds give up on eating, drinking, and existing because they know they have been left alone.

So, I am humbled in gratitude and thankfulness on behalf of all the dogs, when I see the families in the Korea expat community (civilian and military) that do everything above and beyond their resources to ensure this sentence is their unbreakable condition: "Not without my dog."

I salute you, dog owners who take your pups on journeys across the world, at costs and sacrifices that only you know are so great.
your dogs can't say it, but I assure you, they want me to say it for them. Thank you!

26/11/2024

Hi friends! We know we haven’t been posting much on Facebook recently, but that doesn’t mean we haven’t been continuing to send your dogs and cats to worldwide destinations!

Here are some of them!

31/07/2024

Final CDC process for Korea to USA.

22/07/2024

CDC: Dogs from Korea now only need to fill out the “dog import form”.
No records required, no additional vet documents required.

Thank you to everyone that screamed at the CDC to develop a rudimentary set of brain cells to understand the way rabies could potentially travel.

Let’s hope they don’t change back.

No word on the AWB thing though…

There are four requirements for dogs that have ONLY been in countries that are dog-rabies free or lo

18/07/2024

The CDC website is being modified day by day. Here's something of great joy for US military (and government employess who have access to the US Army VTF clinics in Korea!

(almost) All DoD veterinarians can access VEHCS (a USDA website to record federal information), thus they are able to issue US rabies vaccinations and their certificates!

I want to make something very clear, that may not be understood even by staff at the USFK VTFs:

ONLY VETERINARIANS THAT ARE ARMY OFFICERS OR ARE GS SCHEDULE EMPLOYEES CAN REPRESENT USDA. This means that local hire veterinarians CANNOT log vaccines to be uploaded on VEHCS.

17/07/2024

Ok folks, it seems CDC is not backing down, so here's the first step to enter the USA after August 1:

Dog Import Form:
https://cdc-786687.workflowcloud.com/forms/fb112553-dd9a-4c3e-a75f-12d6b7e2f2a4

Instructions how to fill it out:
https://www.cdc.gov/importation/media/pdfs/cdc-dog-import-form-instructions.pdf

If the process seems complicated for you to tackle alone, our expert team is ready to provide consultation asistance so you can get it all done right. We have been following this catastrophic CDC process since day one, reporting on it as it happens, and ensuring we tell as many people about it as we can.

Find our consultation services at:
https://shindogsair.com/

14/07/2024

HUGE NEWS!!

Korean Air has decided to allow passengers to SELF-ISSUE their own Airway Bill for dogs traveling with passengers!!

This means we in Korea can now complete all the requirements and dogs can travel!

We are still recommending everyone to get your dog RABIES ANTIBODIES TITER TEST from the APQA laboratory.

For a personalized consultation guiding you on how to prepare your travel correctly, come to shindogsair.com

More details will be discussed on our facebook group:

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

Shindogs Air is working for you round the clock. We are the experts in Korea pet travel because we put in the time to stay up to date! (Now Sunday night past 11 PM)

14/07/2024

Two more global airlines have officially announced no more dogs as passenger bookings to USA.

Is the CDC about to become the most hated federal agency this century?

12/07/2024

THE CDC Statement regarding offering any type of exception to U.S. Military stationed abroad for simplifying their return home with their pets basically boils down to:

Some U.S. military members falsify documents, therefore ALL of them are not to be trusted or given any special consideration, despite who their employer is.

Also, adopted stray dogs are all disease ridden filthy animals, and because some U.S. military have been “reported” to adopt animals abroad, all military are denied any exemption, regardless of when and under what conditions, and where the dog was adopted.

Furthermore, the government will pay military’s costs so shut up and do what we say.

It doesn’t matter that multiple other government agencies (in USA and abroad) issue many exemptions to policy for military servicing USA abroad. CDC doesn’t care.

Here are excepts of the ruling:
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HHS/CDC disagrees that USG employees and members of the U.S. military should be exempt from any or all importation requirements.

CDC has no data to support the proposition that dogs owned by USG employees or members of the U.S. military are better cared for than other dogs or that individuals in these groups are less likely to attempt to import dogs with falsified documents or fraudulent or insufficient titers.

CDC has documented multiple instances of falsified documents, including intentionally altered import permits, forged titer results, and falsified rabies vaccination records, submitted by U.S. government employees and military service members.

Additionally, CDC has documented numerous reports of U.S. government employees, including military service members, adopting stray dogs while stationed overseas… however, the employment status of the importer does not affect the dog's potential risk of carrying DMRVV.

Adopted stray dogs often have unknown rabies exposure history, have received little or no veterinary care or vaccines, and can present a risk of DMRVV just like any other dog that has been in a high-risk country with an unconfirmed vaccination status.

Vaccination, titer, and quarantine requirements are essential to protect USG employees, service members, and their families as well as the U.S. communities these dogs are being introduced into when they arrive in the United States.

Furthermore, HHS/CDC strongly disagrees that this final rule specifically targets USG employees. This rule bases its importation requirements on the risk profile of the dog's country of origin and the dog's vaccination status (U.S.-versus foreign-vaccinated), and not the type of importer. It imposes no additional requirements on USG employees or members of the U.S. military compared to any other importers.

Finally, the State Department has made relocation funds available to U.S. government staff for quarantine fees or titer services. Additionally, there are CDC-approved laboratories providing discounted services for USG employees.

In sum, the risk of DMRVV importation is best determined based on a dog's vaccination status and its recent presence in a DMRVV high-risk country rather than the employer of the importer.

Thus HHS/CDC declines to create a specific exemption for USG employees and military members.

10/07/2024

WHY ARE AIRLINES BANNING PASSENGERS TAKING THEIR DOGS INTO THE UNITED STATES?

The CDC has created new draconian, aggressive, and arrogant rules and impositions on pet owners, veterinarians, foreign government agencies, and airlines, both domestic and foreign, which are leading airlines to ban the travel of dogs with passengers. CDC claims it is for prevention of rabies spreading, and the new rules from August 1 were hastily created with little public awareness during the process of creation.

Of great concern is the fact that CDC is imposing the following LEGAL requirements on airlines:

1- Airline staff at foreign airports have been mandated to check the CDC documentation, and determine the accuracy of the paperwork before accepting pets for boarding. This requires millions of dollars of cost in training staff, creating reference papers, programming computers for tracking data, and designating locations for such lengthy inspections to happen before boarding.

2- Airlines are now required to issue a very technical travel document called "Airway Bill" to passenger's pets, something that has never been done before anywhere in the world, and requires complex and expensive computer programming to enact and train. Implementing such computer changes costs millions for international systems.

3- Upon dogs landing in USA, if the animal is denied entry for any of the above, the airline bears the financial responsibility of disposing of the denied animals. (Yes, that means what you think it means). This can cost futher millions, as airlines now must create a framework at every US airport of arrival to manage rejected pets. This goes from hiring handling staff, to obtaining proper transport ground vehicles, to tracking and managing computer systems.

4- Failure to comply with any of the above results in airlines being banned from transporting ALL animals. (even cargo animals, cats, etc...)

Can anyone blame airline lawyers from immediately stopping all dog movements into the United States?

There's no way airlines can accept the liabilities involved in this!

Speak to your congressman or senator to STOP this madness!

source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/13/2024-09676/control-of-communicable-diseases-foreign-quarantine-importation-of-dogs-and-cats?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR2Wwvl4_o-R2IKvkX_Fo5kxwAB86AUuZ7_iNLTTRBskmKYClUP7OG5TAFQ_aem_aFiBuWLMpVSQlGrkNz528g

10/07/2024

MY NEW URGENT ADVICE TO ANYONE WITH PLANS TO TAKE DOGS TO USA THIS AUGUST AS CHECKED BAGGAGE OR CARRY ON...

GO NOW! BEFORE AUGUST 1.

Lufthansa Airlines posted this on their German language website (screenshot is translated). They are BANNING DOGS from August 1 due to the moronic CDC new policies.

The airline obviously decided they weren't going to accept the US governments imposition of forcing airlines to police and enforce these new rules, and to do unprecedented additional labor such as issuing Airway Bills to passengers' pets, so they basically decided to say "the few hundred dollars we get per pet isn't worth the dumpster fire of problems they'll have dealing with the new policies.

Lufthansa is a leader in airline policy, and I now expect many other airlines around the world to enact the same pet bans.
LEAVE NOW! Get into USA before August 1.

note: apparently manifest cargo is not affected, since we always get an Airway Bill, and have the document enforcement screening procedure set up already)

IF you are departing past August, CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN OR SENATOR and ask them to fix this joke!!

10/07/2024

Dear United States CDC: Please delay and revise the new pet travel rule for at least 18 months to consider a more balanced and logical approach!

Please allow me to highlight a KEY problem on the rule that I have been trying to get public attention to, with no success. Regarding dogs coming from Korea and Japan (low-risk countries) There is a mandate for pet owners wishing to take their dogs to the USA who do not have a serology test (costing hundreds of dollars) to provide:

"veterinary records (including microchip number) for the dog from the exporting dog rabies-free or low-risk country for the previous six months."

The problem is that veterinarians in these countries DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH and do not provide medical records in English!! The documentation will be in KOREAN or JAPANESE script writing!!

How are border control agents in USA supposed to read and verify these records?

Do the records need to be translated to English? If so, by whom? Do these translations need to be apostilled?

Furthermore, what if the dog didn't visit the vet in the past six months, but at minus seven months or more? How is that going to represent 6 month residency? Does the CDC think dogs visit the vet once a month? Weekly? Daily?

the lack of clarity in this is catastrophic, and introduces undue stress on dog owners, who want to comply but have no clear guidelines for it!

Even US Congressman Nick Langworthy is petitioning the president to stop this madness!