Purrs In Our Hearts - Cat Forum UK
Cat General => General Cat Chat => Topic started by: Angiew on July 02, 2011, 11:07:26 AM
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Thats very interesting and am sure it will help lots of people and no someone who moved here from South Africa and couldnt bring her precious little dogs and it broke her heart.
Rabies is such a terrible thing and dont thing that DEFRA would do anything that would allow rabies into this country and it did seem strange that animals had to wait so long after being rabies jabbed before they came into the country.
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This is great news for prople who 'fall in love' with strays on holiday and would like to offer a home in the UK but can't afford or don't want to put the cat/dog through quarantine.
I best make sure I only holiday in the UK from now on :evillaugh:
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Thanks for that Angie. Its nice to see something official at last. I knew the UK's opt-out from the EU harmonised pet travel scheme was coming to an end this December but had heard rumours that we would apply for a further opt-out period, which it appears we will with repect to tapeworm but not rabies or tics.
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Have just read this - I am so excited by the news as we have our ginger ninja out in France who we want to bring home. We are back there in Sept and it will give us a good three months to get him used to the carrier - he went berserk when we tried last month to take him to the vets. Was anyone also aware that micro chipping will be compulsory in France from Jan next year.?
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Have just read this - I am so excited by the news as we have our ginger ninja out in France who we want to bring home. We are back there in Sept and it will give us a good three months to get him used to the carrier - he went berserk when we tried last month to take him to the vets. Was anyone also aware that micro chipping will be compulsory in France from Jan next year.?
Good news about your ginger boy ;D
Very impressed with France's stance on microchippin - do you know how they intend to enforce it though?
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You took the thought out of my head Helen LOL
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I wonder if it means that any found wandering without a chip will be pts. :(
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So that would be a mass cull of ferals then >:( >:(
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Hello again, I've not been on here for quite a while. I wouldn't worry too much about drastic 'enforcement' in France as they only fuss when animals travel and even then, far less than in the UK. (their main worry is animals being brought in from Morocco via Spain as there was 1 puppy with rabies brought in in 2005 or so). I hope I'm right but there's never been the sort of pet travel phobia about rabies in France that there's been in the UK, despite no cases of rabies ever turning up in pets in quarantine in all these years.
The DEFRA guidelines seem entirely logical and will help people hugely from places like South Africa. If we could have done this, we'd have come straight back to England with our boys, instead of having nearly 2 years (was meant to be 6 months but we all liked it so much ;)) in France first! But DEFRA at last seem to accept what the other EU countries have always done, which is that if anyone has gone to the trouble and expense of all the vaccinations and paperwork being in order, their pet is incredibly unlikely to have rabies. As the boys' ex vet in SA told me "I think you'd have noticed if the cats had rabies"! :Crazy:
I imagine the people making money out of quarantine kennels are not too happy and will be lobbying that rabies is a 'huge risk'. Along with certain OTT members of the British Veterinary Association.....