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 10/05/2008, 10:00
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Jacqui Too
 
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We brought our cat over 2 weeks ago. No intention to return to UK. We could not get the passport issued without the blood test. When checking in for the ferry the staff checked the blood test was signed up.
However after his rabies jab the blood test was taken three weeks after, result returned a further two weeks after that.
I believe DEFRA do not get involved anymore - the bloods go to a DEFRA approved lab and passport is issued by DEFRA approved vets.
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http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/quarantine/factsheet/eufactsheet3_050907.pdf
This is an extract taken from the link above
Step 4: Documentation
After your pet has passed its blood test you must get an EU pet passport. If a blood test is not necessary, or is to be carried out in another EU country, you can get a passport after your pet has been microchipped and vaccinated against rabies.
Again if you are not returning to the UK you do not need blood tests. If your vet knows you do not intent to bring the pet back he should not make you have them and you shouldn't have the extra cost as they are very expensive if you don't need them.
Jackie
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10/05/2008, 12:52
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Christine Animal
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11/05/2008, 9:25
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Catalpa
Joined on 23/08/2004
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The problem is, careful people look for information from vets etc and because the vet is "professional and official" the information must be right. Sometimes it isn't. A vet isn't incapable of misinterpreting something, especially if the regulation isn't something they come into contact with very often. In Britain or in France.
Everyone responding here has been convinced that what they did was right based on their research. I think the most important fact that anyone responding to a "how to get pets to France" thread should state is when they went through the process. The regulations don't remain the same and anything pre-2005, for example, is probably not relevant now.
But what I really came on to say was: anyone arriving in France with a UK microchipped pet should remember to get their French vet to register the UK chip on the French database asap after arrival. If you go for the belt and braces approach to ID, you could also get a P tattooed in your pet's ear - should the animal get lost, the P indicates the existence of a microchip (puce). If you're intending to get your animal sterilised, this small procedure can be carried out under the same anaesthetic and would add little (if anything) to the cost of the procedure.
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