Dogs and France

Pipps and Co

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Hi,
I'm sure that if I look hard enough my question will have been already answered but up till now cannot find it!!
I am travelling to France with my small dog in July, she has a pet passport and I understand that she will need to be seen by a vet in France before we retrun to the UK for ticks etc treatment but it is not clear in any of the documentation or on the defra website if she has to have the treatment to enter France!!
I'm sure this is quite straight forward once you get the hang of it!! Anyone got any other advice about travelling in Europe with dogs??
Cheers
Sue
 
Hi Sue
As long as your dog's Anti-rabies is in date (within 2 years though some vets say 1 year) and you have current boosters, then no further action is needed to enter France. Some people take their own meds for a French vet to administer. It's worth researching which vet to use before you go as some charge astronomical prices, as I have found out to my cost. 40 to 50 euros seems the going rate, including medication.
Andy
 
Hi Sue,

I would recommend you treat her for ticks and fleas before you go - that way she won't catch and keep any nasties:eek: while away.

Our two also have the ID Tube Tags (about £1.50 each) with our mobile and home phone numbers, name and address safely secured inside them.

Have a lovely holiday:)

Shona
 
Thanks,
When i have looked on her passport it states that the anti-rabies jab booster is not due until 2011, three years after she had the original!! does this sound right??
 
No problem at all to travel with dogs on the continental EU if your pet pasport is OK for the UK. The problem is the other way around: to get back in the UK. :eek:
Ask your vet an anti-rabies medal and put it on the leach-collar. Any French vet will no longer ask for papers. A tick treatment is not compulsory but adviseable.
 
My French vet uses tablets now instead of an injection you just need to get the timing exactly correct,ie,between 24-48 hours before departure so Monday crossings difficult unless you can find a vet who opens Sundays! , mine does work until 5.00pm on Saturdays which is pretty common.
 
hi pipps & co

i always use the tunnel as i can be with my dog for the crossing.

i use vets in the calais area and am not bothered about the cost. a group of the vets have a rota for weekend working and i have had a dog treated on a sunday.

france is the most dog friendly country i have visited. when we first started going people took their dogs anywhere & everywhere. i've queued in a butchers behind a customer with her westie & followed a shopper roiund a supermarket with her dog in the trolley. haven't yet been refused entry to a bar with the dog.

the health & safety culture is spreading even to parts of france. on a recent trip a boulangerie where i've often taken the dog had a 'no dogs' sticker on the door. on the cote d'azur we found signs apparently banning dogs from beaches & around schools.
 
We just returned from GB to the continent via the tunnel.

The problem is not to return from GB to France - nobody will check your pet.

But entering GB you have to meet the GB PET scheme.

We did the tick and Echinoccus Treatment at our vet at home in the correct time frame (not earlier than 48 h and not later than 24 h). At the PET cotrol ation they discoverd the vet stamp is missing and we had to contactour vet by phone to fax a health certificate which had to be presented to a local vet at Calais who stamped the passport which costs us 50 Euros for just the stamp and in total 4 exiting hours.

A British couple had been refused to travel because the pet hat no valid vaccination.

Be prudent and read the PET scheme carefully.

By the way:
In France there is one dog minimum per MH.

Happy wilding in France

oTTo
 
Thanks to everyone for your advice--I now have another problem!! It appears that I can travel to France via Ferry approx £140 cheaper than the tunnel (cost Tunnel = £244--cost Ferry=101 for the same dates)
Does anyone have experiences of leaving a dog in their motohome during a ferry crossing--do they get seasick????
I'm really not sure what to do--I don't like the idea of leaving her but then again £140 buys a lot of doggie treats (and several bottles of vino for the owner!)
I would be really grateful if anyone can help--Iwant to book the crossing tonight!!
Cheers:):)
 
Its not likely as you're up East and its only an hour, we were down west and the crossing was 6 hours, our dog at the time was a bad traveller even in the car so the vet gave us 6 tranquilisers (1 for each 10kg of 65kg Rotty) , he was zonked for 2 days, ! never did it again and he was always fine,just went to sleep.
 
Holly my Gsd and I did a Dover to Calais crossing and tbh I shared your concerns.

Thankfully totally unfounded she just went to sleep as she does.

I am sure the hound will be fine, Maybe worth considering tranquilisers if yours is prone to movement sickness. Mine isnt and all was ok.

Honestly, I wouldnt worry too much

Channa

Channa
 
Well we are now back after three weeks in France--eventually travelled via the tunnel but in the future would travel via ferry if it was lots cheaper!! Have had no problems whatsoever--used 'All theAires' book and stayed at aires on both outward and return journeys-we stayed on two commercial sites in the french alps but that was due to the fact friends were camping on them. From a Pipps point of view again everthing went well--I would recommend that anyone with a dog take their own medication which was bought online and was the same stuff the vets use--we were only charged 16 euros by a french vet in the alps to administer the medication which I thought was very reasonable. I must admit I was very worried about taking the dog with us as I knew it was going to be hot however she spent a lot of time 'resting' under the van--we were also very lucky with our campsite choices which were both very relaxed and allowed her to spend most of the time off the leash--she wouldn't have had so much freedom on an English site!!!
Only problem I've had to come home--I had a great time and can't wait to return--
Thanks to all of you who helped
 
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