Animal Health Certificate / Pet Passport

fwiw ...

Comment from Caravan Talk on the AHC subject.

Was posted that the AHC 'form' has space for up to 5 pets recording on the same single form - confirmed verbally by myself on RVC tele-helpline that it does. i.e. no need for 2 AHC's for say two dogs.

If your needy Vet will do extra pets on the same form / cost or discount the cost - suggest ask very nicely.

As I understand the AHC is maybe the form that was used pre-Br**** for Pet Travel Internationally. Think therefore its new ground for some Vets.

M 

SUCCESS! My dog Ted is now the proud owner of a French Pet Passport!  

The first vet I contacted in France was extremely happy to issue one - the most difficult part was to convince him that the UK passport is no longer valid. 

I contacted a vet near where we’re camping by email (thanks to Google translate),  to explain what I needed.  We were told it would be no problem and offered an appointment the following day.  The consultation was €40, Passport €9 and Rabies jab €5.  The vet said that the rabies jab was not necessary as I had proof of the earlier vaccination - however as the ‘proof’ is an invalid UK passport and soon-to-be-out-of-date AHC, we thought better safe than sorry (€5 for peace of mind). 

The booster vaccinations will need to be done in an EU country, but otherwise I think we’re good to go. 

The vet said it was ok to use my UK address on the passport. My understanding is that passports issued in any EU country continue to be valid - irrespective of where you live.  

We've also recently succeeded in getting our dog a French passport. Her rabies jab was due for a booster soon anyway, and we used our daughter's French address - with that there was no problem. Some information seems to say you'll have to get the dog's chip registered on the French database, but that wasn't mentioned. I think it cost 125 euro in total, but 85 of that was for the rabies jab. That bears no relation to the price Wildwoods paid, but French vet's prices seem to be all over the place generally - in the past we've paid anything from 15 to 55 euro for the worm treatment you need before returning to the UK.

Yes, I thought €5 was incredibly cheap for a rabies jab. However, Ted’s jab is only valid for 1 year.  So I need to get it done again in Sept.  Apparently, there is another type of rabies jab available in France which lasts for 3 years, but not all vets have it.   It’s called RABISIN from the Merial laboratory.  I don’t know how it compares cost-wise, but you can contact the vet in advance to see if they have it available.  

A friend with a house in France has agreed we can use his address, so Ted’s passport now shows a UK and French address.  

Just got back from our return trip with our Spanish pet passport - absolutely no problems. Well worth the effort of finding a vet and a friend with a home in Spain or France, although there was no check on whether the address was valid. I understand some vets are happy to put the campsite as your “home” although officially they should be checking on residency.

Hi - has anyone used this service?

https://animalhealthcertificate.online/

On the face of it it seems quite good.

Cheers 

It’s actually a vet practice in Folkestone called Abbeywell vets - you will find favourable reviews under  that name.

Very happy with service & lower cost.

Very experienced provider as are some others.

Many Yokel Vets seem to be struggling & costly.
Most of details done on line & approved prior. 

We just scheduled our routing ex Leeds to do an overnight in Folkstone and made a 5 pm appointment with Abbeywell for the chip check and AHC’s collection.
NB Cheaper fee on return use. 

M

Thank you for the replies - very helpful

Our vet, not a million miles from Leeds (LS21 postcode), charged us the same price as Abbeywell for the first AHC last year but less for the second this year.   They will only take registered pets, but are a very good local practice, with good prices and sympathetic and helpful staff, and well recommended locally.