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RE: If your dog is rabies vaccinated then a blood test (the dogs!) is all that is required. You will have to wait 3 months for the test results before traveling though.

Thanks for that. We're looking at France end of August so we'll get the blood tests done ASAP.

Tilly, our cockerpoo, is a genteel lady. so she managed to failed her rabies blood test. So a second rabies injection, second blood test and now £440 lighter in the wallet. We are screwed if she fails again.

Did someone say no big deal

C

can you confirm the travelling times?????????????? leave at 11.45 and get in at 6am?

perhaps they have heard about you and are speeding up???

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perhaps they have heard about you and are speeding up???

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Yes, I've heard that they've added oars to all the outside cabins so that they can gain even more speed.

So after an exchange of several Emails we are told "tough", and they hinted that this rescheduling may be long term giving more sailing choices for their customers.

So, I'll have a go at Chris Grayling instead. Has anyone seen or heard about him lately?

Randa

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Pet passport and rabies blood test update -

Just paid £116 for a rabies blood test (for our dog not me) to cover a trip in August. This may seem insane since the Brexit extension to 31 Oct 19, but the current indecisiveness in Parliament means all could still go pear-shaped. The dog still needs to pass though, in which case the dog will need re-vaccinated and then blood tested again 30 days for the vaccination. Its information that I hope nobody needs.

Both dogs have had the blood tests. One passed and the other has not. Second rabies vaccination for him done today and now have to wait the thirty days plus for the next blood test. Actually the older dog had had a blood test when he was first vaccinated so now we are doubly sure about him! (If somewhat lighter in the pocket than if we had we had checked more carefully!) In view of the fact that some dogs are failing the blood test it seems a bit daft that the regular practice of testing was stopped some years ago. Its annoying though that we will have to organise various certificates and bits of paper for travel with them in future rather than the neat pet passport.

You can still take the dogs out of the UK without the wait if it was a booster Magpie, under the current rules. I was told by the relevant govt department that so long as Boris leaves and comes back within his 3 yr first vaccination period all would be fine. Have they marked his passport with the failed blood test? The dept also said, that as long as he travelled out under the current rules, even if we did a no deal Brexit whilst we were out of the UK, that he would come back without any problems. Boris was due his first booster in August but we had it done early last week before we go away for 2 months. We plan to go outside the UK again in Sept for 2 months. Giving his vaccination early means we'll have time for the rabies test in between the trips if we do go out on a no deal before 31st October, but the chance of that happening is very remote. Vets must be making a killing with all this! - not that I blame them, they don't make the rules or cause the uncertainty!

RE: Both dogs have had the blood tests. One passed and the other has not...

I have often thought that if a pet is OK for a return trip to the EU under the current Pet Passport scheme, why is it that it may need a further blood test at all? Its a lot of money. Sorry your dog failed btw.

Because we can't go very far at present (himself is still hobbling with the new knee) we decided to cover ourselves for all
future eventualities. Gryph's passport has no space for a blood test result, failed or otherwise, (although the older dog's on has), But I wouldn't like to take him now that I know he that he isn't actually protected from rabies. Hopefully all will be sorted by the time Mr. Magpie is more mobile.

Good luck with everything 😊

Resurrecting this thread, well the doggie element of it....

We've booked a ferry to Santander 1st May 2020. BoJo is promising we leave the EU on 31st Jan, with 1 year transition from that date. If that happens, I shouldn't have to worry about the rabies test, should I? ......is that how others with dogs are going to treat things in 2020? We go to South America at the beginning of Jan for a month, and we wont have time when we get back to deal with a failed rabies test if they are imposed (allowing for any revaccination and subsequent test). Forking out about £400 for pointless testing is not what I want to be doing, but neither is being refused entry on the ferry in May, losing the considerable fare and messing up our summer plans.

Am I worrying unnecessarily?