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Transporting Family Pets and Other Small Animals: |
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Ms. Kristen Schweitzer Rabies Laboratory FAVN Supervisor Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine Moser Hall 1800 Dennison Avenue Manhattan, KS 66506-5600
Tel: +1-785-532-4483 Fax: +1-785-532-4522 Kristen Schweitzer has worked within the Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine for twelve years as a research assistant conducting various animal diagnostic testing. For the past seven years she has acted as rabies Fluorescent Antibody Virus Neutralization (FAVN) test supervisor. She over-sees the testing of pets for export to rabies-free areas.
KSU and
the Department of Defense laboratory for military personnel in Ft. Sam
Houston are currently the only internationally approved laboratories for
rabies antibody testing in the Western Hemisphere.
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“Pet
Export Testing and Travel
Lab Research Assistant Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine
Travel with a pet dog, cat or ferret has become increasingly popular and easier in recent years. However, most countries have specific regulations and requirements that must be satisfied well in advance of travel. Some of the most complicated and variable regulations involve the control of rabies virus.
Rabies antibody testing has become increasingly popular as a method of verifying rabies vaccination and immune response in dogs, cats, and ferrets that are being imported to rabies-free areas. This is in part due to increasing public pressure for a reduction in lengthy quarantines. Kansas State University has been conducting rabies antibody titers via the FAVN (Fluorescent Antibody Virus Neutralization) method for the purpose of animal export since 1997, as well as testing via the RFFIT method. Each rabies-free region has specific requirements regarding such testing. These include animal identification and microchips, vaccination, age, and pre-export waiting time, among others. Specific regions such as Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom will be reviewed as well as additional serology tests such as leptosporosis, brucella, and ehrlichia.
There are several common difficulties in following the guidelines set forth by governments regarding pet testing. In some cases, animals may have trouble meeting the 0.50 IU/mL qualification for pet importation. Some of the most common factors will be discussed. Also, advice for vaccinating, shipping and packaging will be covered. |
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Mr. Gary Steed DEFRA State Veterinary Service State Veterinary Service 1st Floor Office, 4/5 Waterloo Crescent Dover, Kent CT 16 1LA England, UK Tel: +44 1304 24 00 20 Fax: +44 1304 24 04 79
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“Problems Encountered on Pets Arriving
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PETS was introduced for dogs and cats entering the UK from certain European countries on 28 February 2000. The Scheme was extended to certain long haul countries and territories in the next couple of years with mainland USA and Canada joining in December 2002. In July 2004 the EU Regulation on the animal health requirements for the Non-commercial movement of pet animals (EC Regulation No. 998/2003) superseded the original UK PETS legislation and extended the Scheme to include ferrets, increased the number of qualifying (listed) countries and introduced the EU pet passport and Third Country Veterinary Certificate which replace the PETS and tick and tapeworm certificates. However the UK and certain other Member States (Ireland, Malta and Sweden) retained their own requirements in addition to those required by the Regulation.
In summary the UK requirements are
The main problems we encounter carrying out PETS checks are · Wrong order of preparation – the microchip must be inserted first (i.e. 1st Microchip, 2nd Rabies vaccination, 3rd Rabies serology sampling) · Travelling before six calendar months from date of sampling has passed · Break in vaccination history/not following manufacturers data sheet – Rabies vaccines of the same name may have different validity periods in different countries · Microchip misreading / incorrectly recorded on documentation · Microchip loss or malfunction – microchips need to be checked at every opportunity · Microchip not read at all and just copied from the documentation · Wrong Tapeworm treatment used – the tapeworm treatment must contain Praziquantel · Wrong timing of Tick and Tapeworm treatment – the treatments need to be done 24 – 48 hours prior to check-in on the Approved route (to allow time for the treatments to work) · Only doing one of the treatments - usually only the Tick treatment is done · US certification not countersigned and embossed by the USDA-APHIS · Changes made to certification without being endorsed by the Veterinarian ( signed, dated and stamped) · Certification not fully completed · Certification wrongly completed according to the support documentation · Pets shipped by air in non-IATA compliant boxes – usually much too small (Although not directly related to PETS, the welfare of the pets is paramount ) · Banned dog breeds – certain types of dogs are not allowed into the UK (e.g. Pit Bull Terrier types) · Documentation lost (for example by airline). Always keep copies. The PETS website may be accessed on www.defra.gov.uk and follow the quick link to the Pet Travel Scheme. My colleagues and I at Heathrow are more that happy to check documentation prior to a pet travelling. We do not want failures ! | |
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Dr. Joost Ponte, DVM Veterinary Inspector Border Inspection Post Sciphol Food and Consumer Good Authority VWA Westelijke Randweg 15 1118 CR Schiphol The Netherlands
Tel.: + 31 20 4057903
Joost Ponte studied veterinary medicine at Utrecht State University in the Netherlands. After graduation in 1973, he started his professional career in Algeria as State Veterinarian for the Ministry of Agriculture, mainly dealing with dairy and beef cattle, sheep and goats and meat inspection.
Back in Holland he joined a mixed practice and after 7 years he started his own small animal practice in Diemen, a suburb of Amsterdam.
In 1998 he sold his practice and became once again a state veterinarian, this time at the Border Inspection Post at Schiphol Airport. Live animal transport and imports has been his special interests since.
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“Import and Transit of Pets
Dr. Joost PONTE, DVM Veterinary Inspector Border Inspection Post Schiphol Food and Consumer Good Authority - (VWA)
The presentation covers the procedures and requirements for import and transit of pets through Schiphol Airport as well as common problems.
· Veterinary risks in importing pets: rabies, AI, NCD and psittacosos · A veterinary check is a document, identity and material check · Customs involvement in veterinary checks at Schiphol · The definition of pets according to regulation 998/2003/EEC
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definition of commercial and non commercial movement of pets
· Border
Inspection Post at Schiphol, private owned SIPs, other places of entry
· Quarantine
facility for non commercial shipments for Schiphol: NOP
· KLM
Animal Hotel is a SIP, an other place of entry, a transit, intratraffic
and · The Dutch system of home quarantine · Problems with transit of non EU conforming pets |
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Mr. Jo Wanner GK Airfreight / Gradlyn Kennels Cargo City North, Bld 458 D 60549 Frankfurt/M Germany Tel.: + 49 69 691-772 Fax: + 49 69 691-104
Jo
Wanner trained as freight forwarder from 1966 till 1968 in Munich. He
worked as cargo manager for Scandianvian Airlines in Frankfurt from 1969
till 1985. Since 1988, he has been the General Manager and a shareholder of GK AIRFREIGHT SERVICE, GRADLYN KENNELS GMBH. Gk AIR was founded in 1969 and transports anything from mice up to elephants. So far the biggest project for GK AIR was a transport of 11 elephants from Swaziland vvia Johannesburg to Tampa and San Diego. GK Airfreight has been a member of IATA since 1978; member of AATA since 1998 and member of IPATA (The Independant Pet And Animal Transportation Association International, Inc.) since 2000. Jo currently serves on the Board of Directors for both AATA and IPATA. [ Back to Top ] |
“Documentation on Cargo/Excess
Mr. Jo WANNER GK Airfreight/Gradlyn Kennels
When ten more countries were added to the EU last year, it was very helpful that the EU had already implemented new rules and documentation requirements on pets, effective October 2004. These rules, called 998/2003, were able to be expanded with minor adjustments so that they included the ten new countries.
On the other hand, some countries have very strict requirements. For example, since 2005 both Japan and Taiwan have enforced very stringent rules for the importation of pets.
This presentation will provide information about documentation for the major "pet streams" like USA v.v Germany and other special documentation for countries like South Africa , Australia and New Zealand .
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Ms. Rebecca McNeill Fraport AG Animal Welfare Advisor Dept BVD-OL, Building 206/Rm 1113 Frankfurt/Main, 60549 Germany
Office: + 49 069 690 74331 Fax: + 49 069 690 74332
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“The
Right and the Wrong Ms.
Rebecca McNEILL
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Ms. Rebecca C. McNeill is employed by
Fraport AG at Frankfurt Airport/Germany and acquired versatile
experience while working for various Airlines and Handling Agents since
1977. |
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