Hello Chris,
you can import dogs from members of the EU without quaranteen. The dog has to be vaccinated against rabies and has to have enough antibodies against rabies what is to be prooved with a blood test. That means: you vaccinate the puppies, what is absolute sensless before the 12th week and should be repeated if you have to be sure that ist is putting up enough antibodies about four weeks later (as far as I can remember it has to be 12 weeks when it´s vaccinated anyway for UK). Then you have to take a blood sample at least three month later (I´me not a 100%sure about the three month difference but I think that was the required period). The blood sample has to be tested by a specialised laboratory (there is a list for every country, the vet in the exporting country knows). If the antibodytiter is high enough you are allowed to import the dog to UK, it has to get a wormtreatment against a special sort of tapeworm and against ticks shortly before and you ar only allowed to use a few airports and ports for importing.
That means, you need a breeder that is willing to keep the dog till this age, that is socialising it properly in this period and that is willing to to the bloodtest for you. Of course that will make the price for the dog a lot higher than normal.
If your dog has been successfully tested once, you just have to revaccinate it regulary, but you don´t have to repeat the test (that is the rule for Sweden and should be for the UK too, because it is going to be the same for all EU countries , with those speciallities for the quarantee-countries).
Regards Ina
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