Hi All

Please can anyone advise what vaccinations I will need to bring my cat, roughly how much it will be and how long before we fly do these need to be done.

And if anyone can recommend an agency for shipping them even better

Thanks

Carla

Hi



Your cat needs up to date flu and enteritis the normal yearly vaccinations , microchipped and wormed .

Contact aquis you need to get import permit . they will require an address here in Australia . We found that hard as didn't know anyone here someone on expats kindly let us use their address . Just for the forms they send out to bring to quarantine to pick up your cat .

Next contact shipping agent . Some do everything for you including permits etc . But charge you extra . We did everything step by step pretty straightforward we used airsipply shipping agents . Quarintine cost me $1082 so roughly £741 for 1 st cat each subsequent cat was slightly cheaper . As I brought 3 over .
However you will have to pay for shipping. If you call the agents they will quote for size of your cat .
And have to pay aquis permit . Can't quite remember the cost aquis will tell you look them
Up on net . Possibly looking at £1000 roughly for one cat .

Hope this helps .
P.s our shipping agent were fantastic .











Vet check once you got your permit etc . Contact a shipping agent .
We used

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Hiya

Thanks for that. Which agent did you use? You wrote "airsipply shipping agents" was that their name?

We are moving to Brissie area and the quarrantine station is in Sydney - I guess they then have to ship on your cat to you??

Carla

We brought over the Byford two this time last year... After the three year advance party... They bloody love it here, wish we had done it earlier... It was easy to save a few quid doing all the leg work, paperwork, organising quarentine myself... But tbh if you are coming too you have enough on your plate

Hi again

If your going to Brisbane yes it will be Sydney so have to fly there to pick them
Up or arrange payment through a internal flight company to fly to Brisbane . This is one reason we moved to Perth as the hassle with cats if move to brissie .Perth has it's own quarintine .
Yes air supply is who we used to ship a sphynx Siamese and British blue over to Perth . They were so happy to see us when we visited them
In quarintine . All well looked after

The cat just needs the normal cat vaccinations that I am sure you get each year anyway. I think they need a final flea or worm treatment before they fly but if you are using a pet agency they will do that for you; you just need to get their regular jobs done.

I used Airpets to go to Bermuda and Golden Arrow for Australia. I used Golden Arrow because they were cheaper and they are often highly recommended on here.

Now I have used both companies, and perhaps I am one of not that many people that has, I have one theory as to why Golden Arrow are cheaper, it is because the containers are a lot smaller and shipping goes on volume.

I was quite upset when I saw the containers that they had travelled to Australia in versus those used on the much shorter trip to Bermuda.

Other than this, I also thought Golden Arrow provided a very good service and were lovely, animal loving people. I am sure had I not that comparison I also would have been a happy customer.

Costs including quarantine was about £3k for two cats, for one I would probably estimate just over half of that, as second cat is a bit cheaper in quarantine.

I don't remember having any trouble whatsoever with regard to Australian address, I think we would have just put down the hotel we were going to be at.

Check out this thread which looks like there are changes coming in a few months time

http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=733547

Sadly we will have to leave our moggy in the uk, not sure he would travel well

We used Airpets, near Heathrow. They were excellent and all went to plan. The cost was somewhere around £1500 for our cat.

We were advised by our vet to have her vaccintaed for rabies (not to enter OZ, but to reduce quarentine in UK, if we came back)

There is a one month quarentine, which is better than UK, but still feels a long time.............she was pleased to see us when we picked her up!

Good luck, and happy to chat if you want more info.

Hi there

Did that include your quarrantine costs? and did you go for their top service whereby they do everything for you? Or did you do some of the paperwork yourselves and take her to the airport? We have just had Ruby vaccinated for Rabies as we will be flying after Jan 1st.

OMG - have just had this epiphany and now panicking!