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If you want to travel with your pet, there are two main routes. You can find out more about everything below at the DEFRA website. It is ultimately your responsibility for ensuring your pet meets all the requirements for travelling.
It is always important to ensure you are using an authorised route for travel, and where your pet will be travelling on a plane in the hold, an approved transport company.
For commercial movements of pets, or moving more than 5 pets into the EU, please contact DEFRA directly. For pets travelling outside of the EU or certain non-EU countries, an Export Health Certificate is required. These can be applied for online in advance here. Please ensure you leave plenty of time to make sure all the requirements are met. You can contact DEFRA directly on 03000 200 301.
For pets traveling into the EU or Northern Ireland, you can leave the UK either using an Animal Health Certificate, or a Pet Passport issued in the EU or Northern Ireland. You can find more information about the following steps here, or contact APHA at pettravel@apha.gov.uk or on 0370 241 1710
Click here for a useful link to flying with your pet.
We also strongly recommend your discuss your pets travel requirements with a vet before travelling. Alongside the compulsory treatments required as part of travel scheme, many pets will also benefit from protection against tick, sand fly and mosquito-bourne diseases. We can also talk to you about ways to help your pet travel and how to plan your route. Please find an information sheet here. There is no mandatory requirement for tick treatment although we would recommend this for pets travelling overseas.
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