Gerrting a Small Dog to Belgium

zuutroy

Have a mini-dachshund, and may be relocating to Belgium. Anyone know any companies that would ship him, or is driving the only option?


Edit: Gerrting eh?!

EGAR

Some air lines transport pets but they must be accompanied by a human.

Sarah

zuutroy

Aye, none that go from here to Belgium unfortunately.

Hagar

Make sure you start the process of getting a pet passport in good time. It can take up to 6 weeks after your first visit to the vet, there are shots, blood tests etc. for the dog and it's not cheap.

Alun

Also note that the requirements for getting back into Ireland (or the UK) are more strenuous, i.e. you have to wait for at least 6 months after the date of the blood test, and also have the dog treated for ticks and tapeworm within 24 hrs of entry into Ireland.

Also, if the antibody test after the rabies jab returns negative, you'll have to go through the whole thing all over again, until you get a positive result.

All the regulations are here ...

http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/index.jsp?file=pets/index.xml

zuutroy

Alun wrote:

Also note that the requirements for getting back into Ireland (or the UK) are more strenuous, i.e. you have to wait for at least 6 months after the date of the blood test, and also have the dog treated for ticks and tapeworm within 24 hrs of entry into Ireland.

Also, if the antibody test after the rabies jab returns negative, you'll have to go through the whole thing all over again, until you get a positive result.

All the regulations are here ...

http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/index.jsp?file=pets/index.xml

Thanks folks....have done all that stuff....pretty detailed, and expensive!

mjffey

I would go by car.

We came over from the Netherlands with 5 cats. We had to drive all the way down to Calais, take the train under the Chunnel to Dover and then across England to Holyhead. From Holyhead to Dublin and then 4 hours drive to Co. Mayo.
It took us exactly 24 hours from door to door. We had the back of the Jeep (a Mitsubisi Pajero LWB) converted to catroom and that worked perfect. I would never send one of my animals by plane.

zuutroy

mjffey wrote:

I would go by car.

We came over from the Netherlands with 5 cats. We had to drive all the way down to Calais, take the train under the Chunnel to Dover and then across England to Holyhead. From Holyhead to Dublin and then 4 hours drive to Co. Mayo.
It took us exactly 24 hours from door to door. We had the back of the Jeep (a Mitsubisi Pajero LWB) converted to catroom and that worked perfect. I would never send one of my animals by plane.

Yeah, I've done Dublin to Amsterdam/Paris/ Brussels many times. It's a bit of an epic! I guess it wouldnt be fair on the little fella to send him on his own. I'm just thinking of when we want to come back to Ireland for a week. I suppose we might be able to find a dog-sitter over there