I didn’t.t know that such a thing existed but apparently it does…
Anyway, it’s quite apt as I’m just sitting down to plan an article on travelling to and from France with pets so I thought it would be a good idea to ask you lovely people for any tips, tricks and general advice !
So, over to you…
Oh no! We took our new boy in to be castrated this morning 
My main tip is getting your pet used to a kennel/cage and occasionally a muzzle if a bigger dog. Even once over using a cage for house training let them stay accustomed to it. In Switzerland your pet must be in a kennel in a car (or I think a 2 point attachment). Equally for ferries and trains if the animal is already used to restrictions makes it so much easier.
Our last dog we took on trains when he was a teeny pup just to get used to them.
And check vet puts precise time of worm treatment in passport, not just the day.
Some things bring an instant laugh - sorry Jane, but this is one of them 
Hope he is OK and young enough that he will never know but have a happy life 
One of Scarlette’s pups, five months old now, with his new forever family. He was so frightened at his first foray into the local town, that he had to be carried the rest of the way, poor mite.
Certainly love, as he must be all of 13kgs now…
I don’t know if readers of the article will also be UK based? If so, and if they’ve not travelled across the channel with their pets before, they’ll be shocked at the cost of the obligatory Animal Health Certificate (only obtained up to 10 days in advance and which replaced the GB pet passport post Brexit). Each return trip to/from the Continent requires a separate AHC per pet at a rough cost of @£150 each. For second home owners with a couple of dogs, making half a dozen trips a year (as we were) = £1800 a year. Sadly it’s no longer possible (at least officially!) to obtain an EU passport for your UK resident pet, which would avoid the AHC charges.
I would very strongly recommend the Channel Tunnel as the most pet friendly way to make the crossing if their pet is at all anxious, as you stay with them for the entire crossing. On some ferry crossings, you have to leave them in your car, in the dark hold of the ferry, which is noisy, strange and quite hot for dogs.Some of ours were terrified after the crossing, so we switched permanently to the tunnel, to avoid stressing our dogs.
Yep something I crawed about endlessly along with all the other Customs formalities that would bounce in, but all on deaf ears! You (the collective you) still voted the brexshit and due to the idiocy of most we all have to put up with it… 
Isn’t every day Love Your Pet Day?
Not in our house when we have been stood in a forest in the cold rain for 90 minutes waiting for him to choose to return.
So far he always does. He is a very “competent” dog according to our educator, and likely to take a long time before he understands that walks are a communal not solo activity.
And don’t even go there if your dog has a docked tail. They are illegal there (no problem with that, the docking that is) and can be killed if not immediately removed from the country.
I discovered this when I had to do an emergency rescue mission to meet a very tearful young lady who had to bring her dog out at very short notice.
