Pet travel in Europe in 2020

[Mr lestat]

We are travelling into Europe with our motorhome in the late spring and taking our dog with us. We’ve been abroad with him many times and obviously the pet passport system works fine. With Brexit in mind and the implementation period we believe we are okay to take him this year on his current passport. Looking on the DEFRA website it all seems a little bit confusing with conflicting advice. The implementation period will be until the 31st of December this year so we think it should all be the same as it is now until the deal is thrashed out. Has anybody got any further advice or comments.

[Mr lestat]

Yes that is basically as we understood it to be and have signed up to the DEFRA website for updates.

The vet is telling us if we are going away in May we really need a blood test for rabies which takes four months anyway so if he doesn’t pass we can’t go as there isn’t time to arrange another. It’s all rather annoying really so we’ll see what comes back from the government website

[Mr lestat]

We have just phoned the helpline and it seems that for this year in the transition period things are staying the same as they currently are for this year only. Once they have thrashed out what’s actually happening it might change but we will know that at the end of this year after the transition period and deal has been agreed or not.

[Mr lestat]

Pesty said:

Doofus said:

Nobody has mentioned 4 months to us, but we have been told to get a French pet passort too (we have a house there), because it makes two-way travel far easier, apparently. So if you regularly go between the UK and another country, you may want to consider that.

Hmmm interesting very interesting.

Wondering how it will make things easier crossing to the UK if we are out.

Also won’t we have two passports one stamped one way, one another? Sounds like reason to block Entry.

Sir there is only one stamp in this passport, yeah we used this one coming out, I do not recognise this filthy british document

It doesn’t get stamped at all leaving the uk. Only for coming back where a vet stamps it after a check up and worming tablet. The pet centre in Calais don’t stamp it either. They just check that it’s been done by a vet

[Mr lestat]

We had a problem once with ours due to incorrect dates put on by our vet. Only option was to get a French passport which was exactly the same as ours but half the price. That was a fun day !!

[Mr lestat]

When there was a problem with our uk one. We obtained a french one no issue. The microchip number was a digit out so the easiest thing was to get a french one as we were travelling back next day. A lot cheaper than uk as well.