International Travel – MSPCA-Angell

The MSPCA-Angell has 4 USDA-accredited veterinarians and an International Travel Team who can help current Angell shoppers solely when touring internationally along with your pet.

Please be aware: We are now not accepting new shoppers solely for the aim of arranging pet journey. If you aren’t at the moment an Angell consumer, please work with an expert pet journey company for help.

International journey with a pet requires important preparation on the proprietor’s half, so start your analysis as early as doable. Some nations require that you just begin the method a minimum of 6 months prematurely and have a USDA-accredited veterinarian look at your pet and full your paperwork.

Travel necessities for pets are rigorous and ruled by the USDA and different nations’ necessities. These necessities and journey prices are important, and the value to fulfill all standards is usually topic to alter and may vary wherever from $900 upwards to $2,000 per pet.

Support for Angell Clients Includes:

• Performing a full well being examination to make sure your pet is match for journey

• Updating vaccinations and offering the required proof

• Completing and signing worldwide well being certificates

• Drawing and submitting any mandatory bloodwork

Outside of assist from Angell, you should additionally work with an expert pet journey firm. We advocate that shoppers work with a pet journey firm to coordinate journey logistics. While we don’t endorse particular suppliers, a fast net search ought to allow you to discover a service that meets your wants

ALERT! Traveling to Australia or New Zealand

• Before contacting Angell for help, you should first work with an expert pet journey company to coordinate journey logistics. While we don’t endorse particular suppliers, a fast net search ought to allow you to discover a service that meets your wants.
• Due to the complexity of worldwide journey, particularly to sure locations, the planning course of could be in depth and will take as much as 6 months to finish.
• Angell’s International Travel Team can assist along with your pet’s medical documentation and necessities, however solely after you might have secured a journey company to handle the logistics.
• Please don’t contact Angell about journey preparations till you might have partnered with a certified pet journey service.

PLEASE NOTE: Starting August 1, 2024, new guidelines will come into impact. Please use the CDC’s DogBot to find out which guidelines apply to your canines based mostly in your journey dates. It’s important to plan for future journey to make sure that your canine meets the mandatory necessities in time to enter the United States!

Get Your Pet Travel-Ready

1. Contact the USDA Live Animal Export Health Certificate Review Service. E-mail [email protected] or name 518-218-7540. (The USDA prefers e-mail communication to telephone calls.) Information on worldwide journey with pets will also be discovered on the USDA web site: https://www.aphis.usda.gov/pet-travel/us-to-another-country-export. You might must schedule an appointment with the regional USDA Office in Albany, NY.
2. Speak with a consultant on the consulate or embassy for the nation of vacation spot to acquire and make sure you totally perceive all the necessities for bringing your pet into that nation.
3. Contact your airline. Each airline has its particular necessities relating to pet journey. The choice to permit your pet to board the airplane finally comes all the way down to the airline; as such, all necessities should be met.
4. Contact the MSPCA-Angell. Once you might have happy the above necessities, please full this online form to schedule an appointment with Angell. A workforce member will get again to you inside 5 enterprise days to schedule an appointment for you and your pet. Please bear in mind the Angell International Travel Team is simply out there to current Angell clientele. Appointments are minimal, and preparations should be made at least 8 weeks or extra earlier than journey. Remember that some nations require you to start out the method a minimum of 6 months earlier than journey.
5. International Health Certificate Agreement. We require all Angell shoppers touring internationally to learn and signal the International Health Certificate Agreement.
6. Questions? Please e-mail [email protected] for assist. You are finally chargeable for realizing the necessities for every space above and the way they affect your particular journey plans. Please be aware that if you’re coordinating your journey exterior of the United States, it should probably be extra handy for all concerned if we help you through e-mail.

Travel Appointment Checklist

1. Travel dates, together with flight departure and arrival dates
2. Full tackle within the nation touring to/from
3. Layover areas and period
4. Vaccination information
5. Microchip ID quantity and date given
6. Any pertinent medical historical past