Taking a dog abroad post brexit

I feel the pain but it was to be expected. Don’t think there will be any desire to come up with anything cheaper, I guess we’ve made our own bed and now have to lay in it!😟

Yup!!! AHC is just something we have to learn to live with although there is a post on here with instructions on how to get a EU passport for your dog at a fraction of the cost of the AHC.

The bit that i find annoying is possibly having to book 1 or 2 nights at a site close to the ferry port so that you can get an appointment with a vet to stick a worming tablet down the dogs throat and say some kind things as to how fit your dog is. Some vets close to the ports have walk in surgeries some don't, so an appointment is necessary.

p.s. not all vetinary practices in the UK have vets qualified to complete the AHC, Pets at Home in our area do not despite having 2 surgeries within a few miles of each other

5DO - you list many of the costs that were present before BREXIT, travel costs, worming and health check (required but not always done). 
The answer to your question is to find a sympathetic vet (there are perhaps more in Spain and Portugal than France) who will issue a pet passport registered to a friends property. They don’t check property ownership - it’s just a tick box exercise. 
Yes you have to have another rabies injection and can’t let a British vet anywhere near the pet passport. But it cost us 110€ for the jab and Max can travel 28 times before the passport is full!
Rufs - why go to the channel port - if you have 5 days to travel? We use vets en route - often booked by the campsite who are pleased to help.
We don’t begrudge the 50€ for the tapeworm tablet as the health check has unearthed problems with our last 2 dogs missed on their visit to our home vet for their annual boosters.

"Rufs - why go to the channel port - if you have 5 days to travel? We use vets en route - often booked by the campsite who are pleased to help"

yes i know, but it is an age thing for me, like to know that we have made it to the port in good time to catch the ferry, use dog as an excuse, but have stayed at some really good sites a couple of hours from the port and done some good site seeing especially around the Brittany coast & Santander,  will probably do as you suggest when we return from Spain in January 2023 as the weather could be a problem so no point in hanging about. 

another anomoli if you are using the AHC is that the form has to be in the language of the country you are landing in, which normallty should not be a problem, however, as a result of the fuel crisis in France we have changed our sailing to arrive in Spain,  we leave on Friday so now have to get vet to issue new AHC in Spanish, hopefully FOC.