pet passports

Last week, OK! Magazine reported that Russell Brand, a British movie star (Forgetting Sarah Marshall) wouldn't live with his girlfriend, American rockstar Katy Perry, in the US because "someone has got to feed" his cat.  OK! went on to quote Brand as saying, "I am getting him a pet passport which means he can travel around as much as he likes."  He also quipped a bit about the funny thought of pets having passports, sounding much like the pet shippers around here.  "Unfortunately, they don’t do photos," Brand told OK! "I was really looking forward to that.”

When humans travel internationally, they get a passport issued, so it makes sense that pets would need one too.  However, there is a lot of confusion about pet passports, particularly in the US.