Service Dog Travel To Italy

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Service dog travel to italy. All cats and dogs traveling to italy must travel in an approved pet carrier container. These expectations shouldn t change just because you need to travel with a service dog. I will be traveling in italy in january with a friend who is ill and requires for emotional support the company of her little dog. The dog a miniature long haired dachshund is officially registered as a service dog in the u s so by law she cannot be banned from restaurants theatres museums etc.

You are taking the leap to go abroad and naturally you want to bring along your service animal or guide dog on this adventure. However you may wonder what arrangements will be needed. We typically use lufthansa klm united and british airways for our pet flights and going to italy in particular we often use lufthansa. Microchipped with either a 9 or 15 digit code you may also bring your own scanner import permit from the agriculture fisheries and conservation department.

And that includes entering and moving around italy. The container must allow adequate ventilation. The pet must travel with its owner or the owner s representative to italy and must not be intended for resale or transfer of ownership. Now as long as dogs cats and ferrets have the required paperwork they are allowed to travel freely within europe.

The pet must be examined and the health certificated issued completed and signed by a usda accredited veterinarian within 48 hours before leaving the united states. Pets should be kept in temperature controlled environments as much as possible and should be loaded last and removed first from the cargo area of the plane which is also temperature and pressure controlled. Feral dogs in the destination country and other considerations on how to keep your guide dog or service animal healthy overseas can help when deciding. The carrier must be big enough for the animal to stand sit and turn around in during the journey.

Train travel with the exception of guide dogs only dogs and cats weighing less than 13 pounds 6 kilos are allowed on italian trains. Before you travel to hong kong the following requirements must be met for your service dog. There were many benefits to traveling with a dog but it took being there to learn what i needed to know about how to travel and what to bring when traveling with a pet in italy. They must be kept in a carrier and the owner must carry a certificate or statement from a veterinarian issued within three months of the train travel date saying that the animal isn t carrying any communicable diseases or infestations.