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Originally Posted by Vaiva
Well, if you want to travel to UK from Lithuania with a dog, you need about 7 months in total to prepare all the papers needed. Guess it is just the same for all the EU countries.
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Yes, that's basically true for all the listed countries that qualify (Czech is one of them) under the PETS plan. The microchipping, vaccinations, and titer is easy, but there is a 6 month waiting period between the date of blood draw and date of arrival. This is almost the same for almost all countries and regions where rabies is tightly controlled, including Great Britain, Japan, Hawai'i, Australia, etc.
If the 6 month waiting period is not met before travel, quarantine will be carried out upon arrival in the amount of days that are missing from the 6 months. So if it is only 2 months after the titer, your dog can be quarantined for the remaining 4 months at your expense.
We travel regularly to Japan with the dogs and have helped friends travel to AUS and GB before with their dogs.. it's not that difficult but you just have to have all the paperwork.
http://www.defra.gov.uk/wildlife-pet...avel/index.htm
In rough order, you need to first microchip your dog. Then, the dog must be vaccinated for rabies. Exactly n this order. If your dog does not have a microchip, you will need to have one put in and revaccinate your dog.
A blood titer must then be taken and sent to an EU approved laboratory. The blood test must return a result greater than 0.5Ul/mL. The 6 month waiting period starts from the date of the blood draw, NOT the day when you get your results back.
This is the longest part of traveling to GB. After that, there are some paperwork and preventatives for flea & ticks you have to give, but those don't take a very long time.
There are other requirements, because you can only enter GB through approved routes, that is in the website posted above too, you have to dig around to find it.