BertieNurse

Hi
What's situation re bringing your dog to Canada once you move for good? If you're from U.K. is it easy? How much do you pay roughly and do they have to have any special jabs etc pre move? Do the get drugged up for journey?
Ta
P.S. Large black lab!

steve666

Try this link to a similar thread, it may have what you're looking for.
http://britishexpats.com/forum/showt...canada+flights

cneldred

Hi there, we landed on 21st October and our black lab followed on a flight with Zoom on 25th.

We used www.petairuk.com and they were brilliant. We left Millie at our friends house, she'd stayed there a few times and settled in quickly (Nina, my wife, did not like the idea of Millie going into kennels as she had never been before and thought it too stressful to be followed by a long flight).

Bob the vet who had been in constant contact with Nina since she first contacted him, visited Millie at our friends house to give her the health check and complete the acclimatisation paperwork. Before all of this Nina had made sure that Millie had her UK passport (microchip, rabies and blood tests etc. which took about 3 months - her reasoning was that should we ever need to return to the UK for whatever reason then Millie could return too). On the morning of the flight PetAir UK collected Millie, crated her and took her to Gatwick ready to for her flight.

We accepted their quite expensive quote so avoid kenneling for Millie and disturbance to our dog sitter - it was 1665.00 sterling all inclusive of crate, paperwork and collection etc.

PetAirUk for us offered a complete service and as we were already out of the country it was brilliant. Toronto airport was another story though.

On arriving at the airport and having great difficulty finding the collection point, we discovered there were more costs involved. A vet at the airport needs to provide a piece of paper explaining that he/she is happy with the animal - we waited over 2 hours for this and then had to pay $32 at another office a 20 min drive away to then drive back again to then pay $56.37 for a release and cargo services certificate!!

Anyway after 18 hours in a crate we were finally allowed to let Millie out. She came out very timid and worried (BUT no mess !!!!). After a few days of following Nina absolutely everywhere, she is now back to her usual bouncy self and loves the long cold walks, and was in complete heaven when we had our 1st snow fall.

The flight and preparation may seem a little daunting but once its over they forget quite quickly. If you need any further infor email me or maybe contact PetAirUk on their website. I think it is up to each family and pet to which service/company/route they take. ours was expensive but fab others may know of other more reasonably priced companies, it depends entirely of your requirements.

Good luck

ps sedation of any kind is not allowed, the airlines will not take a sedated animal as they require constant monitoring