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10/02/2025

January was a short work month due to Lunar Year, but we still moved several kids in and out!
Hoping you are staying warm!

07/02/2025

𝐒𝐈𝐗 𝐓𝐈𝐏𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐅𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐄𝐒' 𝐏𝐄𝐓 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐋 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐈𝐀𝐋 𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐃𝐎𝐌-
What every family needs to now while in Korea in order to not burn your entire savings moving the pet!
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Over many years we have seen countless young military families make pet related decisions that completely destroy their budgets come move time. We’ve seen families get into debt, be forced to sell their cars, and have to spend their life savings, all unexpectedly, simply because they love their dogs so much.
Dog ownership can deliver some massive surprises if you don’t plan ahead for it, and the planning starts at the pet store.
Here are our tips for families to avoid last minute surprises at PCS time

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1) 𝐁𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐒𝐄 𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀 𝐏𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐘!

You need to be able to pay between $3,000 to $6,000 for shipping snub nosed dogs. The means any kind of Bulldog, Pug, Pitbull, Shar-Pei, Boston Terrier, and Shih-tzus whose parents are taller than 10”. Cost depends on height of the adult dogs.
If you choose large breed dogs, like Husky, Golden Retreiver, German Shepherd, and such, be prepared for prices starting at $5,000 up to around $7,000

If Giant breeds like Great Danes, Mastiffs, Cane Corso, Irish Wolfhound, Bernese, etc, you are looking at $7,000 to $13,000, depending on the dogs size and weight.
Note that all the above costs assume Korea-USA. If your next destination could be Europe, or Japan, add another 30-50% to those numbers

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2) 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐈𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐋𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐇𝐀𝐕𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐑𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐏𝐔𝐏𝐏𝐘!

So, your family is in Korea and is already in love with your snubbie or huge dog. Now what? Well, START PREPARING EARLY!
All the above “wrong” breeds can only fly as cargo via Europe. This requires special FAVN preparations, that take up to FOUR MONTHS to prepare. So no matter what your next PCS destination is, you must start you veterinary prep with enough time to be ready!!

The moment your last year in Korea starts, START THE PET TRAVEL PREP! You’ll need the up to four months mentioned above, but if your dog FAILS the FAVN test, the time could be 5 or 6 months before readiness is achieved!

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3) 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐏𝐄𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐌𝐀𝐋𝐋 𝐄𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐇 𝐓𝐎 𝐆𝐎 𝐈𝐍 𝐂𝐀𝐁𝐈𝐍

Airlines are very restrictive of how small animals must fit in the TINY bags allowed in-cabin. Countless people show up at the airport with their cat or dog stuffed into the carrier assuming they’ll be allowed to board, and get rejected. They face the situation where they have to reschedule the flight and possibly have to pay fines or cancellation fees of several hundred dollars, up to losing the entire ticket cost!
Also, many airlines don’t have the option to put dogs in checked baggage, so you’ll have to change airlines and definitely have to pay a lot for that.
United, American, and most low-cost-carriers won’t allow pets in baggage. The list changes often, so consult with us for an updated list of option at your time of travel (more on that below)

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4) 𝐃𝐎𝐍’𝐓 𝐀𝐒𝐒𝐔𝐌𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔’𝐋𝐋 𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐀 𝐏𝐄𝐓 𝐒𝐏𝐎𝐓 𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐀𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐎𝐓 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒 (𝐀𝐌𝐂)

Self-explanatory. Pet spaces can be booked up to 90 days ahead, and they are very limited. Simply put, there are way more pet-owning families than there are PE pet spaces.
Don’t buy the Bulldog expecting to be able to just take easily on PE. It is a lottery.

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5) 𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐍 𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐏𝐄𝐓𝐒?

Traveling on a government-paid plane ticket means each FAMILY gets two qualifying pets on board. If you have more, the additional pets WILL COST YOU THOUSANDS.
There are several options, including paying for tickets out-of-pocket or shipping the pes unaccompanied. Again, something to consult with us.

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6) 𝐆𝐄𝐓 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐅𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄

Pet travel is a financial minefield if you are not prepared for it. It is possible to make choices that wipe out your savings, and you won’t even realize it until it is too late. Ensure you are prepared for the upcoming pet travel! That’s why we have created a customized consulting service for families on PCS to be able to ask any questions related to pet travel to our professional pet relocation experts. The service cost you a hundred dollars, and it is active form the moment you hire us, until your pet flies get on board the plane. No matter if the trip is next month or next year, you’ll have unlimited access to ask anything you want, including getting all paperwork reviewed for errors.

https://shindogsair.com/pcs

We believe that spending a hundred dollars now will save you thousands of dollars later. Avoid life-altering surprises when it comes to depart Korea with your pet.

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.