taking your dog abroad

[runnach]

Look for Pawsome Pet Travel

https://pawsomepettravel.com/

They operate in your area, you go online and fill in all the dog's details (d of b, chip number, date of last rabies vaccination, date of travel, country you are going to etc) and they turn up at your door with an AHC for your dog, scan him to make sure it's the same dog as you have entered the chip details for, and it costs IIRC £99.

£120 Dick Vet, who are our go to Vet, great place, connected to Edinburgh University, with fresh minds and best of gear, what is not to like!

 

[RSD7a]

Look for Pawsome Pet Travel

https://pawsomepettravel.com/

They operate in your area, you go online and fill in all the dog's details (d of b, chip number, date of last rabies vaccination, date of travel, country you are going to etc) and they turn up at your door with an AHC for your dog, scan him to make sure it's the same dog as you have entered the chip details for, and it costs IIRC £99.

Thanks Jo001. Sounds interesting. Do you have 1st hand experience of them? How was it. In particular, I'm not sure how responsive our vet would be about emailing full health records etc to another vet (at least not without charging me ).

 

[RSD7a]

We have an appointment at the Dick Vet up at Bush Estate Penicuick soon, just over £100 rings a bell.

This would be pretty convenient ( easier than Edinburgh). I'll check them out. Thanks!

 

[Jo001]

Thanks Jo001. Sounds interesting. Do you have 1st hand experience of them? How was it. In particular, I'm not sure how responsive our vet would be about emailing full health records etc to another vet (at least not without charging me ).

I don’t, I only heard of them after having paid £250 at our vet in Fife. But your vet isn’t contacted at all, you complete the admin details yourself online, then someone just comes out and scans your dog and presumably checks the evidence of the rabies vaccination from the record you hold. This assumes your dog already has an up to date rabies vaccine.

And our dog now has a Spanish Pet Passport (£41.65 on that day’s rate of exchange, including a three year rabies booster) so I don’t expect I will need their services - but if I did, I wouldn’t hesitate to use them.

 

[runnach]

This would be pretty convenient ( easier than Edinburgh). I'll check them out. Thanks!

Dick vet are very good, I have a choice of two vets within a ten minute walk from house, Dick Vet Small Animal Hospital was recommended, been using them since 2013.

 

[RSD7a]

I don’t, I only heard of them after having paid £250 at our vet in Fife. But your vet isn’t contacted at all, you complete the admin details yourself online, then someone just comes out and scans your dog and presumably checks the evidence of the rabies vaccination from the record you hold. This assumes your dog already has an up to date rabies vaccine.

And our dog now has a Spanish Pet Passport (£41.65 on that day’s rate of exchange, including a three year rabies booster) so I don’t expect I will need their services - but if I did, I wouldn’t hesitate to use them.

Ah yes, I misunderstood their website. It was a bit confusing. I can see now that getting my vet to email medical records only applies if other docs are not available. I've an old EU pet passport which ticks all the boxes.
I too intend to get an EU pet passport once over there. What address did you use?

 

[Wully]

I thought all vets were Dicks along with Dentists and liars. I aways make sure when I do a job for them they get real good value for money

 

[runnach]

I thought all vets were Dicks along with Dentists and liars. I aways make sure when I do a job for them they get real good value for money

Wully, for clarity........................ and a Dick at the Bush, whatever next

The William Dick Building[edit]​

The William Dick Building, was opened for teaching in September 2011 by HRH Princess Royal[16] and sits on the Easter Bush Campus. It contains purpose-built facilities for veterinary teaching, including a clinical skills laboratory, anatomy facilities and two lecture theatres. It holds a canteen which is open to staff, students and the general public.

 

[RSD7a]

Ah yes, I misunderstood their website. It was a bit confusing. I can see now that getting my vet to email medical records only applies if other docs are not available. I've an old EU pet passport which ticks all the boxes.
I too intend to get an EU pet passport once over there. What address did you use?

Actually, in the end Pawsome Pet Travel did require our dog's medical records re rabies vaccination and microchip details from our vet. But it was dead easy to organise with a polite email to our vet's reception ... all done within a couple of hours. As my vet told me, they hate doing AHCs as the. bureaucratic paperwork is horrendous and they're basically happy to avoid it if at all possible. So I'm all set. Just need to pay my £99 nearer our travel date in Sept and an AHC will be brought round to our house.

 

[Jo001]

@RSD7a sorry, I just noticed you asked about an address while away. We used our home address here in the UK. Where are you going? France is trickier than some other countries, because alongside the passport you need to have your dog's microchip registered.

 

[Herman]

Charlie and Bella posing with their new passport's €20 each, no fuss, no come back in a week, done there and then, copied the history out of our old UK passport's and entered the tape worm treatment, why is it such a faff in the UK to get an AHC. The French vet filled out the tape worm details on the AHC and could get over the amount of paperwork.

 

[alcam]

Charlie and Bella posing with their new passport's €20 each, no fuss, no come back in a week, done there and then, copied the history out of our old UK passport's and entered the tape worm treatment, why is it such a faff in the UK to get an AHC. The French vet filled out the tape worm details on the AHC and could get over the amount of paperwork.

Got my dogs Spanish passport with new rabies jag entered on it .
Vet wouldn't transfer any information from AHC .
Getting ferry home and got pulled up because rabies wasn't 21 days old
Fortunately had my AHC
Not sure if it applies to you

 

[Canalsman]

Charlie and Bella posing with their new passport's €20 each, no fuss, no come back in a week, done there and then, copied the history out of our old UK passport's and entered the tape worm treatment, why is it such a faff in the UK to get an AHC. The French vet filled out the tape worm details on the AHC and could get over the amount of paperwork.

Where is this vet located?

 

[RoaminRog]

The vet at the top of the road to Mikkis Place to Stay only charges 17 euros.

 

[RSD7a]

The vet at the top of the road to Mikkis Place to Stay only charges 17 euros.

I too would be interested to know where this vet is, but am afraid I don't understand the answer provided.

 

[RoaminRog]

Sorry, the vet I was referring to is called Centro Veterinario de Pera N37.123826, W008.337479
They are very close to Mikkis Place to Stay in Portugal.
They will need your pets old passport and AHC overnight, to copy details and then for the princely sum of 17 euros you will have a European Passport for your pet.

 

[Jo001]

Just beware everyone that if the chip date is earlier than the rabies vaccination date you will need a rabies booster at some stage to validate the passport. If you can, get the rabies booster at the same time - although it is medically effective straight away the vet has to enter a date 3 weeks later for its ”valid from” date in the passport. You can come home with your AHC (assuming it's in date) if you need to return within that 21 days but your passport will be fine for next time.

 

[Canalsman]

Where is this vet located?

Bump @Herman

 

[gemmat]

I don’t, I only heard of them after having paid £250 at our vet in Fife. But your vet isn’t contacted at all, you complete the admin details yourself online, then someone just comes out and scans your dog and presumably checks the evidence of the rabies vaccination from the record you hold. This assumes your dog already has an up to date rabies vaccine.

And our dog now has a Spanish Pet Passport (£41.65 on that day’s rate of exchange, including a three year rabies booster) so I don’t expect I will need their services - but if I did, I wouldn’t hesitate to use them.

Thanks, great info, will help in trying to re-enter the EU. From Morocco with a British dog.

 

[Jo001]

Thanks, great info, will help in trying to re-enter the EU. From Morocco with a British dog.

Actually, I believe the vet issuing your pet passport does in fact contact your normal vet but as far as I know most vets send the information without any issue.