Rabies FAVN test

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.”

What exactly is the 6 month wait? I may be moving a dog from US to England. Thanks, Betsy.

Whenever discussing pet travel or pet transportation to England or any other rabies-free country (like Japan or Australia), a lot of people will mention the "six month wait."

What this means is that instead of putting your dog or cat in quarantine for six months upon arrival in England, you can do the following in order to avoid quarantine:

Step 1:  Microchip implantation

Whenever you move there is so much going through you mind that many many things can get lost in the crowd.   One common issue that we see come up a lot at PetRelocation.com is that the pet owner may not have access to original vet documentation.

Let's say you are moving overseas but before you depart you are going to spend the last few months with family on the other coast of the country. You pack up all your household goods and send them off and then you and whoever is left including your pet head to Grandma's several thousand miles away.