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How to choose a boarding establishment for your pet?
Looking through the golden pages or contacting us is a good place to start. Recommendations from other pet owners are also very helpful.
We always recommend that you visit any boarding kennels before leaving your pet.
Ensure booster vaccinations are up to date well in advance of a planned trip. Kennel cough vaccination is also necessary for dogs. The vaccine must be given 5 days before kennelling and lasts for one year.
Flea/mite control and a routine worm treatment is advisable before and after kennels.

Travelling abroad with your pet
Ireland and the UK are rabies free but on the continent rabies can occasionally occur; therefore there are restrictions necessary to prevent the spread of this disease.
A pet travel scheme is now in operation in the UK and Ireland which enables owners to travel with their pet dog and cats to the continent and return without the need for quarantine. You can avail of this scheme by fulfilling certain requirements. This involves micro-chipping of your pet, passport application, rabies vaccination, blood testing and health certification.
It is important to note, however, that while your pet could travel out of the country sooner, an initial period of seven months must elapse from the start of the process before they could re-enter the country. Following this period of 7 months however they can travel freely back and forth, provided rabies booster vaccinations are given.
Certain additional requirements may also be necessary for entry into some European countries. Details of these can be obtained from the appropriate embassies.
If you are planning to travel abroad with your pet in future, it is advisable to contact us well in advance so we can arrange all the necessary details.

LINK:
www.agriculture.gov.ie/pets - How to get an EU pet passport in Ireland.

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