8808 Travelling with dogs to Italy

For all current information regarding taking back your dogs to the UK contact DEFRA at:

[email]helpline@defra.gsi.gov.uk[/email]

They are very helpful. You will have very little trouble on your way to Italy. Problems usually start when you want the dogs to come back to the UK.

My sister, who lives in Frankfurt, regularly takes her dog to the UK, if you want I could get the name/contact of the vet in Calais that she uses.

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This has cropped up in previous threads - I suggest you try the 'search' facility

It's really very very simple. We've done it and travelled back to the UK via the Chunnel with our horror. What you have to be careful with is the timescale since the flea/tick treatment and worming that you'll have done on the continent. You cannot present yourself at the pet passport control office any SOONER than 24 hours since the treatment or any LATER than 48 hours of that time. That leaves you with a 24 hour window. It may well be that depending on your travelling schedule, you can actually have the treatment done by a vet near your place in Le Marche. We had Jasmine treated at 10am at our local vets in Umbria and then began our drive. We night stopped south of Paris, got up and was at the Chunnel sometime not long after 10am next morning - but with a whole day in hand so to speak, should there have been any problems en route.

One thing the Italians didn't have a clue about was the last page of the pet passport. It's to do with the Vet's registration body (don't have it to hand to look at.) Our vet advised us to get it stamped at the Agricultural office in town which licensed the vet practices. They took it without question (i.e. as if they did it all the time), stamped it, charged us €10 and we were on our way. They didn't check it at the passport control office and when back in the UK, we asked our vet there to find out what it was about. He rang DEFRA and was told it wasn't even in use. It was for future possible changes in the pet passport scheme.

So, to cut a long story short :) Don't plan on using a vet in/near Calais unless you then plan on waiting for at least 24 hours afterwards there!

Hi Wibble

Here is a very long list but with loads of Vets numbers in Calais/Northern France.

Visit the DEFRA website at [url=http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/quarantine/index.htm]Defra, UK - Animal health and welfare - Bringing pets to Britain[/url] for up-to-date info about the Pet Travel Scheme.

Have a look at [url=http://www.day-tripper.net/infopetsabroad.html]Loads of free info. for pet owners travelling to France[/url] for more useful tips and info, including special offers on Ferries etc. Also costs involved for petcare products overseas. Very useful site.

See [url=http://www.ledogstop.com/pages/travel_scheme_vets.html]Le Dog Stop - the one stop shop for pet relocation and travel[/url] for more useful info.

[url=http://www.dogsaway.co.uk/main/vets.htm]dogs away - vets in france[/url] also has good info, and a useful 'step-by-step' guide to obtaining your pet passport. They can arrange a vet on your behalf, but will charge for it at £27 per appointment, and £15 per subsequent visit. Expensive when you consider that quite alot of the French vets speak very good English, making it easier for those with little or no French to deal with them.

[url]http://www.petplanet.co.uk/travel_int_vets.asp[/url] has a section with details of vets in Germany & Italy. Useful site.

Ok, here's the numbers...

Vets in Calais

Full list and telephone numbers of Vets in Nord-Pas de Calais, call (00 33) 3 27 96 84 38 .

Clinique Vétérinaire du Parc Saint Pierre des Drs Fermé J. M. - 73, rue Aristide Briand (near the Town hall) Tel: 0033 321 34 93 88 . Fax: 0033 321 97 16 56. Open: Monday to Friday 9.00am to 7.00pm, Saturday 9.00am to 4.00pm. We notice that consultations are about 100 euro if booked in advance and 200 euro if not. (Seems VERY expensive, but possibly the closest to the port!).

Centre Vétérinaire Curie - 139, Bd. Curie, 62100. Calais. Tel: 0033 321 82 15 11 .

Clinique Vétérinaire du Docteur Nowosad - 138, Bd. La Fayette, 62100. Calais. Tel: 0033 321 36 67 96 . Fax: 0033 321 36 05 63.

Clinique Vétérinaire des Salines (Dr. DELVAL Valérie) - 11, Place Crevecoeur, 62100. Calais. Tel: 0033 321 00 71 00 . Fax: 0033 321 00 71 09.

For Vets in other parts of Northern France....

Brittany
Centre Vétérinaire, 12 place Rioust des villes Audrains, 22550 Matignon. Brittany
Tel: 0033 2 96 41 22 05 . Matignon is situated approximately 15kms west of Dinan which is about 35 minutes drive west of the port of St Malo.

Centre Veterinaire Briocelande, 58 Miroir Aux faes, 35400 St. Malo. Tel: 0033 299 81 94 51 .
St. Malo is one of the nominated ports for the Pet Travel Scheme and this vet is situated only five minutes drive from the port.

Michel Garancher, 154Bd.de Verdon. 35000 Rennes. Tel: 0033 299 54 46 48 .

M Lamer of Le Goff Lamer Vets, 4 rue Jacques Rodallac, 56110. Gourin. Tel: 0033 297 23 56 12 . (Visitor comment - "I found a vet in central Brittany who knows about the scheme, has a scanner which read my dog (eventually) and had the right certificates. Very helpful and even speaks English. He charged 42 Euros for the treatments and the certificate.")

Normandy
Clinique Veterinaire, 18 place Poulet-Malassis, 61000. Alencon. Tel: 00033 233 26 29 51.
Clinique Veterinaire, Le Haut Gelé, ZA 50310. Monebourg. Tel: 0033 233 21 11 14 .
Dr Fabienne Ringot, Cabinet Veterianire St Marc. 7 Rue Alsace-Lorraine. 76000. Rouen. Tel: 0033 235 981 745 .
Docteur Borel, Cherbourg. Tel: 0033 231 97 41 41
Drs Dalagoutte et Roger, Cherbourg. Tel: 0033 231 96 55 82

Then the rest of France.....

Town
Vet
Telephone Number

Chatillon-sur-Chalaronne
Dr. Lenoir
00 33 474 55 0057

St. Genis-Pouilly
Dr. Radiguet
00 33 450 42 1234

Villefranche sur Mer
Dr. El-baz
00 33 493 01 7422

Bergerac
Dr. Carrad
00 33 553 74 4390

Louviers
Dr. Larson
00 33 232 40 0334

Uzes
Dr. Jacquemart
00 33 466 22 1065

Villefrabche de Lauragais
Dr. Jubenot
00 33 561 81 6401

Montpellier
Dr. Leplat
00 33 467 27 3732

Reze
Dr. Nouhin
00 33 240 32 3854

Prayssac
Dr. Untz
00 33 565 22 4646

Monebourg
Dr. Bastin
00 33 233 21 1114

Corbigny
Dr. Vignault
00 33 386 20 0163

Hellemmes
Dr. Nowak
00 33 320 56 7419

Calais
Dr. Alcouffe
00 33 321 82 1511

Randon
Dr. Hodencq
00 33 470 41 5142

Pau
Dr. Barande
00 33 559 30 1156

Selestat
Dr. Guth
00 33 388 82 8687

Kientzheim
Dr. Ortet
00 33 389 78 2379

Paris
Dr. Gittins
00 33 140 59 0476

Neuchatel-en-Braye
Dr. Savalle
00 33 232 97 0147

St. Aubin sur Scie
Dr. Lamaiziere
00 33 235 84 2735

Ouville la Riviere
Dr. Zachee
00 33 235 83 0210

St. Germain en Laye
Dr. Lazard
00 33 134 51 3133

L’isle sur la Sorgue
Dr. Silovy
00 33 490 38 1188

Mandelieu la Napoule
Dr. Begue et Combe
00 33 493 49 2849

Mandelieu la Napoule
Dr. Faure et Pepin
00 33 493 49 3619

Mandelieu la Napoule
Dr. Texier
00 33 493 49 7850

Remember that your pet MUST be seen by a vet no less that 24 hours prior to departure and no more than 48 hours prior to departure from France/EU/. Most vets that we've encountered are very pragmatic in their approach to stamping your pet's passports. So don't stress about getting exact times for your stamp!

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Aretina, such a comprehensive report deserves a double "thank you". We should keep your post as a reference for this type of queries.

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I find that staggering. A pragmatic approach to time stamping Pet Passports by foreign vets is a surefly way to see the whole scheme thrown out by the UK. Just because they don't see a need for the system themselves, gives them no right to 'bend the rules'. Such statements on a public forum could cause all kinds of problems should the wrong person read this.

Hi Skichi

Like others on this forum only reporting experience and reports by others. But have to say that my sister always tries to see her vet in Germany before her trip thereby bypassing any Calais/Port vet.

Two years ago whilst we were staying in Bellagio, accompanied by our border collie, we went to a vets in Como recommended by our landlady and had the required treatments and paperwork done on a Friday evening. We left on Saturday morning and with an overnight stop in France made Calais with a few hours to spare.

We have travelled to Italy (Northern Lazio) every year since 2000 with our dog and since the introduction of the pet passport it has been problem free. Our Vet in Montefiscone (about 10kms from us), Dr Ziegler, is now adept at the system. The main thing is to make sure they fill in the 3 entries correctly - especially that they put in the date and time of the flea and worm treatments and date of examination that the pet is in good health and sign and stamp the three entries. We take Frontline and Drontal (got from our UK vet) with us - though this is probably more expensive it saves worrying about availability. We get the treatment done first thing in the morning on the way back to UK, spend the night somewhere on the way - it depends how far we get, and then head for the tunnel and a train at about 18.00. That still gives us quite a lot of leeway (till about 10.00am the next morning, bearing in mind the 48 hour rule) to cover any problems. We find this preferable to staying around Calais. In the end though it is up to personal preference! Good luck.

8808 Travelling with dogs to Italy

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