Moving With Pets To Ireland
Start getting your pet comfortable in their crate as early as possible.
Moving with pets to ireland. Must know details before moving to ireland with your dog. There is a handling cost of about 35 that you should pay on arrival. The pets will be brought to you in their cages and then you re free to go. It is your responsibility to ensure that your animal undergoes the compliance check.
Your departure destination is one of the most important factors that will determine the ease or difficulty with which you will be able to bring your pet or pets to ireland. To find out which category your country falls under refer to the list on the department of agriculture fisheries and food website. You may have to do things at distinct stages and there may be a waiting period after the steps are done before you can move internationally with your pet without a quarantine period. If you want to bring your pet dog cat or ferret and are travelling from a european union eu member state then they must have a pet passport for ireland.
You can no longer book your pet s travel yourself back in 2006 and 2007 when i first traveled with my dogs to ireland i did all the paperwork airline booking and arranging of vet checkups myself. Imported animals enter ireland via dublin only and there is a warehouse at the airport where a company called world freight services hands over your pets once they ve passed through all the checks. Moving pets into ireland from non eu countries non eu countries fall under two categories those that are considered low risk and those that are considered high risk. How to start the process of moving your pet to ireland each pet shall be identified by means of a microchip.
I m not sure when the change happened but now the airlines that fly pets in to ireland. No other form of identification is acceptable. If you are coming on holiday or to move to ireland or other non commercial movement where there is no sale or change of ownership you may bring your cat dog or ferret with you. The microchip used should comply with iso standard 11784 or annex a to iso standard 11785.
If you don t have an airline travel crate for your pet get one immediately. Pets travelling to ireland from non eu countries may enter through cork dublin and shannon airports and also cork or rosslare ports and must undergo a compliance check on arrival. If your pet is another species national regulations apply. To start with dogs cats and ferrets are the only pets for which eu wide documentation has been standardized.
The law governing the importation of cats dogs and ferrets for non commercial purposes is the pet travel cats dogs and ferrets regulations 2020.