I am in the final year of my HND and I am researching the pet passport scheme as well as quarantine experiences. Has anyone had experience (good/bad) of using quarantine before PETS was introduced and has the passport scheme made a significant difference to anyone?
Any replies gratefully received. I should mention that I would like to use any information in my assignment provided that I have permission from the author and the website.
Many thanks, Lynette Baxter.

Perhaps you might contact the US military veterinary clinics located on RAF Lakenheath, RAF Mildenhall, or RAF Fairford. I'm certain that they'd be able to help you find pet owners who brought their pets over and placed them into quarantine. Perhaps Quinn will be able to provide the telephone numbers for the first two locations.

In case you didn't know, it was made official last week that the pet passport program has been extended to include the US and Canada. We live in Germany at the moment. But my two dogs have just had their blood tested 6 weeks ago so that if we do get orders to England in March 2004, we'll be able to take them along with us (after getting some local certificates and treatments).
If England was still on the 6 month quarantine program requirement from EU countries, there would be no way this side of hell that I would ever consider moving there with my dogs. I already have a neurotic bitch....long term confinement would just compound all of her problems :(

hth -- good luck with your research
toodles

"it was made official last week that the pet passport program has been extended to include the US and Canada"

I missed that news item - Hurrah!!!

Oops, someone on here mentioned it first in passing.... then it was announced on the radio. I think there was a very brief blurb in the US newspaper and then it vanished. A rather non-dramatic event, ay? ;) :D

Eoghania, May I ask where in Germany you live? We just came to England from Germany 1 1/2 years ago. We were stationed at Rhein Main and lived in Frankfurt. Shirl :D

Lynette,
We brought our cat over from Germany to England on the Pet Scheme. We were soooo pleased that we didn't have to put her in quarantine. I don't think she would have survived it. She was 8 years old at the time and deaf. She was very attached to my son. He had her since he was in kindergarden. I say had because we had to put her to sleep about 6 months ago. She had a stroke and loss use of her back legs, and then they found out she had stomach cancer. Very sad. :( Anyway, I would never put our pet into quarantine. Never! The Pet Scheme was expensive though, but I don't think as much as quarantine. You really have to follow the scheme step by step though. If anything is out of order they will not let the pet come. I know, it happened to me. The vet forgot to put the whole microchip number on the certificate!!!! I had to go and have it all redone again. The blood work, microchip, checkup, and worming/flea treatment wasn't all that expensive, but you have to have a company transport your pet to the plane and take care of sending all the paperwork to whatever country you are going to. That cost us 500 marks at the time. (No marks anymore, so I don't know how much it is in euro) It was very stressful to have everything done in the time frame that it needed to be done in and the order it needed to be done in, but it BEATS quarantine any day!!! Hope this helps. :-) Shirl

I was born in Munster,Germany we lived all over Paderborn,Bunde,Sennelager but my favourite was Osnabruck. I remember as a child my school friends being broken hearted as the majority of people rehomed their pets rather than put them through quarantine in the 1980's. I remember a friend whose parents returned a pyranean mountain dog to the breeder after 2 years as the family were posted to El Paso,Texas he was absolutly devastated. My parents refused point blank to have any pets until we returned to England. There were just to many horror stories about animals who hadn't made it through quarantine. However my sister in law recently emigrated to New Zealand and I was amazed that her dog only spent a week or so in kennels here and then a further week in kennels in Austrailia. Her dog had no problems at all.
Julie

Lynette,
I've got the phone number for the Veterinary clinic at RAF Feltwell. If yu call them they can probably give you the number for the other clinics.
RAF Feltwell clinic: 44-01638-527097
Hope this helps! Shirl :D