Pet Passport Help

[Tim120]

Hi KandJ, as you mentioned your pets I wonder if you can help me. I was previously given to understand that if you had an address in Europe you could obtain an EU pet passport and I believe this is in fact the case. However, does that cover trips to UK or do EU pets also require a Health Certificate to travel to and from the UK ?

Was asked on the back of another thread, thought it better here.

 

[SimonM]

From personal experience. You do not need an EU address. Once your pet has his/her passport they are free to travel to and fro at will, with the proviso of the 24-120hour ruling once they have received their vet check over t’other side.

French vets can be difficult requiring the microchip to be entered onto a French database before they will give a passport, also they won’t do a 3 year rabies jab for the first year. Go somewhere more forgiving, I used a Belgian vet - and significantly cheaper too.

 

[Canalsman]

I concur with what @SimonM says. I obtained a pet passport in Bruges for my dog for 67€ including a three-year rabies vaccination.

Bear in mind that no entry may be made in an EU pet passport by an UK vet other than for the administration of worming tablets.

Rabies vaccination boosters will have to be administered in the EU.

 

[Drover]

I also concur.
Ours has a spanish passport from down Cadiz area where they will only give a year on rabies jabs due to the to be being close to Morocco .
They did ask if we intend to spend up to 6 months a year there....simple answer on that one.
3 year jabs have been done since in France..

 

[andyjanet]

Jessie had a german passport! No problems travelling backwards and forwards every shengen shuffle, we recieved sidneys greek passport yesterday evening and he is registered at our address in uk and has three year rabies vaccinationand only 5 months old, i add that if the dog is travelling from uk to europe for the first time you need an animal health certificate to take them to europe to get there EU passport

 

[Scotia]

Ours was issued in southern Ireland we already had a rabies certificate from the UK which didn't cause any problems and had a booster administered here in the UK last year with no problems.

 

[Jo001]

Ours was issued in southern Ireland we already had a rabies certificate from the UK which didn't cause any problems and had a booster administered here in the UK last year with no problems.

Have you travelled to the EU using a passport with a rabies booster entered by a UK vet? That's not supposed to be possible.

 

[Scotia]

Have you travelled to the EU using a passport with a rabies booster entered by a UK vet? That's not supposed to be possible.

Twice to France x 4 if you want to include Ireland .

 

[Jo001]

Twice to France x 4 if you want to include Ireland .

You've been lucky - this is from the DEFRA website.

 

[Scotia]

Been lucky 4 times then!

 

[Scotia]

I've just put 4 lines on the Euro lottery see if my luck passes over.

 

[Scotia]

You've been lucky - this is from the DEFRA website.

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The first time we went to France on our return we were questioned why the passport issue date and the rabies date did not coincide then presented us with several pages of print and flagged up the issue. When getting the worming tablet for returning the year after I presented the print off to the vet, he then gave a covering letter just in case it flagged up. Last year was a breeze both heading and returning.

 

[Drover]

There is a date when the uk vet became invalid to do rabies for the eu but buggered if I can remember it.. it was a while after bexdhit . Before it they were ok so some eu passports with uk vet signatures are ok.

 

[AnneL]

From personal experience. You do not need an EU address. Once your pet has his/her passport they are free to travel to and fro at will, with the proviso of the 24-120hour ruling once they have received their vet check over t’other side.

French vets can be difficult requiring the microchip to be entered onto a French database before they will give a passport, also they won’t do a 3 year rabies jab for the first year. Go somewhere more forgiving, I used a Belgian vet - and significantly cheaper too.

Thanks Simon, I took my dogs to France last year on a health certificate and asked the French vet who gave them the worming treatment if he could issue a passport and he said I needed to have an EU address. Just the French being French perhaps. I’ll try a vet in Belgium next time.

 

[AnneL]

I concur with what @SimonM says. I obtained a pet passport in Bruges for my dog for 67€ including a three-year rabies vaccination.

Bear in mind that no entry may be made in an EU pet passport by an UK vet other than for the administration of worming tablets.

Rabies vaccination boosters will have to be administered in the EU.

Thank you

 

[AnneL]

Ours was issued in southern Ireland we already had a rabies certificate from the UK which didn't cause any problems and had a booster administered here in the UK last year with no problems.

Did you get a Health Certificate to go to Eire initially. Some people telling me that no one checks but not sure I’d want to take the risk!

 

[Scotia]

Did you get a Health Certificate to go to Eire initially. Some people telling me that no one checks but not sure I’d want to take the risk!

No we didn't,and we were not checked going into Ireland either.

 

[Scotia]

Did you get a Health Certificate to go to Eire initially. Some people telling me that no one checks but not sure I’d want to take the risk!

I had a mate jumped bail (nothing serious just getting even for a wrong) and went to America to live. On returning to visit his folks he flew into Ireland then a ferry to Scotland then back home, so I don't think having a pet would be a bigger issue.

 

[AnneL]

Jessie had a german passport! No problems travelling backwards and forwards every shengen shuffle, we recieved sidneys greek passport yesterday evening and he is registered at our address in uk and has three year rabies vaccinationand only 5 months old, i add that if the dog is travelling from uk to europe for the first time you need an animal health certificate to take them to europe to get there EU passport

Thank you Andy and Janet

 

[AnneL]

No we didn't,and we were not checked going into Ireland either.

That might be an option for me as I’m in SW Scotland, so a nice easy trip. Thank you