Thank you!

Your article is a lifesaver, esp now that we are planning to take our 2 dogs with us to Paris from Mumbai.

We have completed almost all the paperwork. The last leg of the Animal Quarantine office is balance. I couldn’t help noticing all the documents that you stuck on your dog’s crate. I could make out the following:
1. Your dog’s photo with your contact details
2. Animal Quarantine Form
3. Health Certificate
4. A printed sheet from Furry Fliers (what did it contain????)

I was wondering if these are color copies that you have pasted on the crate, as the originals are required at both the departing nd arrival airports.

Looking forward to your reply.

Thank you,
Bidisha

Your article is truly a lifesaver !! we have been planning our travel to Paris with our 2 dogs for the last year or so. we have almost everything sorted out, however, can you share a bit more information on what all you had to stick on your dog’s crate? as far as I can make out from the photo, it has the following documents stuck:
1. Photo with your address and contact details
2. Health Certificate from Mexico
3. Indian quarantine Certificate
4. A printed sheet from Furry Fliers

Did you make color copies of these documents to attach to the crates? Because, as far as I know, the original documents need to be presented at customs of both departing and arrival airports.

Looking forward to your reply.

Thanks,
Bidisha

I feel your struggle. It’s so hard! Yes, it’s very odd that CDG will make you re-check pets. We are told it’s because they don’t have a proper pet center there, while AMS does (and basically all other EU airports). We did 17 hours on Air Canada but MOST won’t allow over 14 hours. Our dogs were in their crates just over 24 hours and they did okay – we cable tied them so they weren’t taken out in canada at our layover, but 30 is a long time. I hope you find a good route!

When coming from Madagascar to Nicaragua in 2015, I used 3 agents (after having almost given up, because it would have been impossible to handle it myself) and paid twice as much for the pooches as I paid for my own ticket.

The clue I take from your story – and I hope this will save me, in this case I would not even have to change my booked flights and hotels! – is that they are checked through at AMS (as KLM told me – but which I could not believe!), but not at CDG! This is incredible, because both are EC. Tarzan has a titer test, but not Chico – due to the political turmoil here in Nicaragua I wanted to get out as fast as possible.

Nevertheless I will have a test made on Chico 30 days after his rabies shot this week, but I cannot wait another 3 months and cancel or change all bookings I already paid.

I really hope that the regulations are still the same, because so many things have changed. At Johannesburg – where they were walked, fed and watered in 2015 – there is a new state vet who is extremely strict and does not allow to take them out of their kennels – which means they will have to stay in it for more than 30 hours! And DELTA – which I flew then – does not take any pets on flights of more than 15 hours, because since 9/11 (this is what the crew told me) the crew is not allowed to access to cargo and check if they are ok…

Hi Beckii! So, I flew biz with a checked dog and my BF flew economy with the cat in cabin and other dog checked. We weren’t on same flight because they only allow one dog at a time. One dog was overweight by a few pounds and nothing was said about it – but it is scary! The crate is like 10 kg. Lufthansa is better – definitely and it’s what Vinayak always works with but it did not do our route to mexico so if you can do lufthasa do it!

They were so happy to see us, then confused I think as we did one airbnb for a week before we took our long-term rental but now they’ve settled in just fine. I am so thankful it went smoothly and that it’s OVER lol

It’s so hard to see pets hurt because you can’t explain anything to them or in my case tell Shanti that I’d see her in 24 hours! Glad your cat made a full recovery – that sounds horrible :(

It must have been really hard seeing your dog strapped up, no wonder you were in tears. I would be too! Thank goodness you insisted on water as I really can’t imagine such a long flight without it. Thank goodness, it all ended well.

I mean, recently, one of our cats – Yukiko – had to have her paw bandaged ‘cos she broke a lamp, and stepped in the glass. It was awful. And we ended up going to the vet every three days, for 2 weeks. Thankfully, she’s made a full recovery!