Rules for traveling with pets

All requirements adapt to rules of a country where you are traveling to. So you need to check the full list of requirements by consulting the embassy of the country you are going to visit.

Common rules

1. Marking.

The pet animal (dog, cat or ferret) must be marked by the implantation of a transponder - ISO-compliant microchips known as ISO microchip standards 11785. EU transponders do NOT read non-ISO microchips.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

NOTE: Our clinic offers microchip implants for pets older than two months, appointment only. Chip data is added to the international database for chipped animals tracer.com.ua.

Clear tatoo made before 3th of July 2011 is allowed.

Pets should be marked or described with consideration of characteristics of each species so appearance of the pet matches its identification document.

2. Rabies vaccination.

The pet should be at least 12 weeks old (all pets older than 12 weeks have to be vaccinated against rabies).

You must get your pet microchipped before, or at the same time as, their rabies vaccination. If you do not, they’ll need to be vaccinated again.

You must wait 21 days after the primary vaccination (or the last of the primary course of vaccinations) before bringing

NOTE: Our clinic offers rabies vaccination for pets older than 3 months. Cost of vaccination depends on a manufacturer of the vaccine. Vaccination and issuance of an International veterinary passport can be done only after microchipping.

3. Rabies titer test.

Your pet must have a blood sample taken at least 30 days after the rabies vaccination and you must wait 3 months from the date the blood sample was taken before you travel - you do not need to wait if your pet was vaccinated, blood tested and given a pet passport.

The results of the blood test must show that the vaccination was successful (rabies antibody level of at least 0.5 IU/ml).

NOTE: Our clinic offers blood collection and filling documents for further transportation of blood samples to laboratory by owners. Or our veterinary clinic does everything what is needed for rabies titer test and provides the results one month later to an owner.

Owner’s foreign passport copy or original is needed to fill supporting documents.

In pet passport should be indicated:
- Microchip: the date the new chip was inserted (or it was read) should be before rabies vaccination date or the same date.
- Rabies vaccination should be done no more than one year before blood collecting and not less than one month before rabies titer test.  

- Name of vaccine, manufacturer, serial number and expiration date should be clearly stated on the vaccine label.

4. Prevention of diseases or infections

Treatment against the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis, where your destination area is free from this tapeworm (Finland, Ireland, Malta, Norway and Northern Ireland) should be done no more than 5 days prior and less than 1 day before leaving the country. Record of deworming should be included to pet passport with a seal.

5. International passport and health certificate

On the basis of veterinary certificate F1 issued by State clinic. This certificate is valid for 10 days.