I have emailed USDA so awaiting their response but wondered if anyone had exported a dog to the US and what was entailed.

Pup will have a pet passport and be vaccinated etc and will be travelling as excess baggage (not cargo) with the new owner on the return flight to America with American Airlines.

Anyone have ant experience?

Last time I exported no issues when under 3 months old, just google current regulations and check what the airlines rules are (especially whether they will allow may to September).

I hand all the details over to Ryslip Exports and they sort everything.....everything!

Yeah that would be fine if pup traveling cargo but when excess baggage it's fairly simple from a logistics point of view. It's literally just knowing which bits of paper I need to have. The passport obv covers vaccinations but not sure if I need an additional vey health cert (issued within 10 days of arrival in US) and if I need an import permit for him as well.

Yeah they have to be minimum 4 months now and have had rabies at 12 weeks old.

Temperature wise they can fly as long as temperature does not exceed 85f at destination. It'll be an early morning flight so won't be as hot as that.

All airlines I have flown with as checked baggage require a health certificate from vet a few days before travel.

It will be on the airlines site.

Unfortunatly you can't export to the USA as excess baggage, or couldn't last year when i checked with numerous airlines. We shipped from Ryslip, unaccompanied.

I travelled from the Netherlands, to chicago in Feb this year it was $200 for the dog, he was as excess baggage as to big to go as hand luggage in a sherpa bag, picked up the dog from the 'outsized bag drop' desk and had to see the CDC to clear the dog, they needed the health cert from a vet stating he was fit to travel ( it had to be no older than 5 days) which was next to the baggage reclaim, and walked out with him.

May til October is pretty much out for some of the southern states because airlines won't fly them in the heat.

Never had problems going checked baggage from UK before, it's coming back that you can't do it, so have always come back to Brussels and then been picked up by car, or the first time came back as cargo but out as checked baggage.

I know American Airlines no longer do checked baggage but Delta does and the Dutch national airline (name escapes me) does.

I tried Delta and KLM and united at the begining of the year and they all said the dog has to go as cargo ! GRRR
i eventually flew KLM from Amsterdam, but the dog i flew out to USA was born in the Netherlands so wasn't that much of a hardship.