Pet Travel Information Request
Please allow 48 to 72 hours for one of our team members to respond.
All well-planned pet travel itineraries will depend on and consider all of the following — available pet-friendly carriers and routes, type of aircraft, breed embargoes, temperature restrictions, destination country import regulations, and destination airport live animal rules. Once we determine who, where, when, how big, pet satisfies destination country import requirements — we will able to provide a best itinerary with estimate.
Please consider the following information:
- Provide best guess dog breed if pet is a mixed breed
- Dogs will provide pet measurements to determine travel kennel size
- Please measure floor to top of head and nose to base of tail
- Most DSH cats will travel in a #200 series kennel 28x20x20
- Maine Coon, Ragdoll, and Norwegian Forest cats will confirm dims
- Brachycephalic breed pets may have difficulty finding an itinerary
- Will pet need destination country airport assistance?
- Will pet parents be traveling at the same time as pets?
Destination Country Import Requirements
Please begin with a review of your destination country live animal import rules, requirements, and regulations. The USDA Animal Plant Health Inspection Services has a wonderful, dedicated site to review country requirements – USDA APHIS – Travel with a Pet.
Many airlines and destination countries also have dedicated pages for pets traveling – British Airways, Lufthansa, KLM, Heathrow Animal Reception Center, Department of Forest and Fisheries DAFF Australia, New Zealand MPI, and Singapore AVS.
The International Pet and Animal Transport Association will be another valuable resource for traveling pets IPATA.org.
A pet’s second step will be to review their current, existing health documents to ensure pet info details are consistent — microchip number, date of birth, vaccine dates, and breed info are confirmed accurate.
As pet’s info details will be used to generate permits, blood test results, vaccine records, final health certificates, and travel documents — we must depend on consistency.
A kind note — contacting previous veterinarians to request vaccine certificate corrections or replace missing documents may prove to be difficult. If a pet has missing, incomplete, or current vaccine certificate with errors, please begin by reaching out to the vet team office manager for a remedy.