Approved Airline Pet Carriers

admin — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 09:28:36 +0000

If you decide to go with your four-footed on vacation or to the exhibition and as a means of transportation chosen airplane, air carrier must inform us in advance. Typically, for local flights is enough availability of veterinary certificates. It shall include: name of owner, nickname of the animal, its sex and age, date of vaccination and the results of tests for intestinal worms. In addition, in the certificate must be specified the route.
Apart from veterinary certificate, the owner must have the license for export, which in some cases can replace the pedigree. Keep in mind the certificate issued to you for three days before the trip, the day of departure is exchanged for an international veterinary certificate.
Accuracy of documents on the day of departure checks customs veterinary control.
Usually, the plane is allowed to transport from one to four animals, so booking seats for four-legged care should be taken in advance. It does not matter, your pet is flying in the cabin or in the luggage compartment, for its transportation needs a special container which must conform to the International Air Transport Association.
Its size should be chosen so that the dog or cat could be freely rotated. In this case, carrying is charged as excess baggage.
For most large international companies, such as «Lufthansa» and «Delta» passenger service with a pet is a priority. Especially attentive to the four-legged in the company «KLM». In its airplane in transit flights through Amsterdam for animals arranged a special hotel. By the way, almost in all airlines to transport animals in the cabin of the airplane is prohibited. Exception – dogs weighing less than five pounds and guide dogs accompanying blind or deaf passengers. In this guide are transported free of charge. For dogs weighing more than forty kg require a separate passenger ticket and a separate passenger seat.
PLEASE NOTE: In many countries on the import of animals imposed strict limits requires additional vaccinations, certificates, and provides for the quarantine of one to six months. The main and compulsory vaccination for all states – vaccinated against rabies and we recommend to read interesting article about dog muzzles.

Pet Transporters

admin — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 14:08:02 +0000

Wherever you go and in whatever mode of transport you are decided to travel with your pet you need to buy a special container with the necessary number of openings for air and always with a waterproof bottom. A dimension of the container depends on the size of the animal and should be chosen so that the animal could stand in it and loose enough to turn. Many international airlines for a fee gives owners their specially adapted for animal transportation containers. Transportation animals in bags, boxes, etc. prohibited, and not humane to animals. Better to buy for the cat portability (container). We have been advised to take carry it with metal doors, as the plastic door is not very reliable.

And now about documents that are needed when crossing the border. First, you need to know what requirements in the country you are visiting. For example, to go with your pet in the UK, Malta, New Zealand or Ireland, it must stay in quarantine in special institutions for about 6 months in Hong Kong 4-th of the month, France, Israel, Macedonia, Slovenia and Egypt have banned importation of animals younger than 3 months.
At the entrance to Argentina you should have on hand endorsed by the consul of the country veterinary certificate. For animals under the age of 3 months in Canada, they are held in quarantine for 30 days. When the transit of the border of Lithuania is not worth talking about what your pet is a rare and expensive, otherwise you will have to pay a deposit and place your warranty authorization. Sweden and Cyprus are required in advance from the Ministry of Agriculture of his country’s special permission. The main and compulsory vaccination for all countries vaccinated against rabies. It is necessary to issue a veterinary certificate (Form № 1), which later in the day of departure is exchanged for an international veterinary certificate. Before you make an exchange veterinary specialists further examine the animal.
The main thing that an international certificate was properly issued and therefore the demands from veterinary experts at border inspection post fill in the English language, for Germany in German. Sometimes on the border raises questions of breeding values of animals and therefore advance to reference in your club that your pet is not breeding values, or simply goes to show.
The reference may be issued only specialist breeders officially registered club .Currently, if you do not want to have problems with transportation cats, it must be chipped and always carry a Certificate of chipping.
Excerpts from the “Regulation of international air transport of passengers, baggage and cargo”: Items that are not accepted for carriage as baggage: … animals, except dogs, cats and other indoor (tame) animals and birds that can be accepted for carriage subject to the provisions.
Dogs, cats, birds and other small rooms (tame) animals accepted for transportation only if accompanied by adult passengers and with the prior consent of the carrier. Passengers are obliged to submit a certificate issued by competent state agencies, and other documents required by the veterinary authorities of any country, territory, from or through which the shipment.
For transportation of animals and birds, the passenger must ensure that the container (cell) of sufficient size with air access. The bottom of the container (cell) shall be watertight and covered with an absorbent material. An exception could be movement of animals and birds in sealed baskets, boxes with holes for air access. Bird cages should be covered with a dense opaque cloth.
Mass accompanied by animals and birds, including the mass of containers (cells) and the food is not included in the free baggage allowance and paid for baggage fare. Guide-dogs carried free of charge without the cell above the free baggage allowance, provided that such dog has a collar and muzzle and it is tied at the feet of the owner.
Admission to the carriage room (tame) animals and birds under the condition that passenger assumes full responsibility for them. The carrier is not liable for injury, loss, delay in delivery, illness or death of such animals and birds, as well as in the case of denial of their importation or transportation through any country or territory.
Carrier is not liable for death or personal injury to a person accompanying carried on an airplane animals if they were caused by the behavior of these animals.
Carrier is not liable if the death or wounding the animal had been caused by natural causes, the actions of his party, or the behavior of the animal or other animals (for example: bite, kicks, strangulation), and if it was connected with the habits, natural features or the nature of animals.
For animals representing breeding value or traveling to the exhibition should be consulted in advance or at the breeder, or club, where the animal is registered, as well as more detail to clarify the necessary data in your host country’s embassy.
When crossing the border in different countries may require other additional documents. First and foremost, you need to know what requirements are for the country which you are going to cross. Information can be obtained from the relevant consulate. Read interesting article about small dog harnesses too.

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