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Originally Posted by
Ripsnorterthe2nd
Am I right in thinking that this only applies to animals residing in those countries and not if you live in the UK and are visiting?
It's soooo bl**dy confusing!
Yes Emma it can seem confusing, I've been watching these types of threads on Dogsey for about four years and the mists are only now clearing
What I've done to simplyfy it in my mind is look on it as two seperate actions.
1) Going
out from UK your dog will need to have had the rabies jab, and as Paw Paw has said most EU countries require it once a year. Please
do your checks on France but if you make it as far as Czechland your dog will be allowed in he's had the jab withing the last
12 months.
2) Now, when it comes to
returning to UK you will not get back in unless you have the proof that the jab was successful, again as Paw Paw has said there is a very high success rate but the way I understand it the UK is the
only country which requires proof that it has worked.
So as we live in Czechland we have our two monsters done every year, but as we have so far not taken them to Uk we don't bother with the 'proof of jab working thing'
So far as DEFRA are concerned your dog may well have the rabies jab, but while on holiday it could
maybe get bitten by a rabid dog, and if he is one of the
tiny minority where it didn't work he could
possibly return to UK with rabies.
Lots of 'maybe' 'possibly' and 'tiny minority' in there but government civil servants don't deal in maybe's and possiblies