Pet Passports

As far as I know, you are required to get a pet passport for Southern Ireland. However, I have taken our dog via Pembroke to Rosslare on 3 occasions and no one has ever asked to see the passport - even with the dog booked in to kennels on the ship!!!!! If you travel via Northern Ireland, you don't need one strangely enough.

A good question Brian and Sue-I have wondered about how it all works;if you enter from the North and leave via the Republic  what then?Our son regularly drives around Ireland for his job and crosses back and forth over the internal border with no checks but he has to carry his passport for the plane back to the UK whether flying in from Knock or Belfast.What is the situation when re-entering the UK at a port when travelling with a dog-perhaps HQ could clarify the situation?

Travelling between member EU countries require a Pet Passport, and Eire is no different. However as both countries have had no indigenous rabies for many years, compliance checks on pets travelling between the two countries is not usually applied, but if it was my pet I would not take the risk of refusal from a spot check.

Travelling between member EU countries require a Pet Passport, and Eire is no different. However as both countries have had no indigenous rabies for many years, compliance checks on pets travelling between the two countries is not usually applied, but if it was my pet I would not take the risk of refusal from a spot check.

Write your comments here...is that accurate Dave?We have a PP for our dog which is always examined prior to embarkation to the UK from mainland Europe.However we have never been asked to show the PP when crossing over Schengen zone borders within mainland EU.My query relates to the specific situation of entry to Ireland from the UK via the North and exit via Eire to the UK and the reverse of that situation.I take your general point about re-entering the UK from the mainland  EU but I am still unsure about the situation when entering with a dog from Eire,given the particular situation post separation settlement with the Republic.It would be helpful to get  a definitive statement from somewhere.I take it that your point is that if you enter the UK from an EU state then you need a PP -OK.What if you enter the North from Eire and then enter the UK from the North with a dog?Do you get my point?

Are you saying that you do not need a pet passport to travel to Northern Ireland, from the mainland?

You don't need a pet passport for travel within the UK, Channel Islands or Isle of Man.

Hi, we are hopeing to travel to Galway Southern Island for a Family Weding in August and would like to take our Dog. Does anyone know if we need to get a Dog Passport for Southern Island ??.

Thanks

Brian & Sue

There is only one simple answer and that is if you are travelling DIRECT to the ROI then yes you do legally. Don't listen to what the ferry companies tell you, after all it's not their dog. I have been many times and there has been no facility, call it what you like to check pet passports either at Holyhead, Fishguard nor Pembroke but that doesn't mean to say that it cannot be implemented at a moments notice by the appropriate authorities then you are stuck up a gum tree. You do NOT need a pet passport for Northern Ireland as it is governed by the UK. There is nothing to stop anyone going to say Belfast without a pet passport and then driving into th ROI as there is no such thing as border controls. A plus is that if you do get a pet passport then you have no worries whatsoever and furthermore the door is open for you should you ever decide to go to France or anywhere else for that matter.

It would appear KJLC is right, I always thought that Ireland was exempt for the UK pet passport requirement but if you look HERE on the gov website it says 'You don’t need to meet the pet travel rules if you travel within the UK or between the UK and the Channel Islands or Isle of Man.' and it shows Ireland as being one of the EU countries on another list so you would need one but not for Northern Ireland which is part of the UK.

Regards, Roy

get the passport you only have to have the rabies jab boosted every 3 years, who know next year mainland europe

get the passport you only have to have the rabies jab boosted every 3 years, who know next year mainland europe

Sorry it posted twice