Does anyone know where I can get information on any coach trips that are running to the 2008 World show in Stockholm?
Thanks
Diane

It was advertised in one of the dog papers recently, but I can't remember which one or what the company was called...... We've decided to drive. Sorry not much help am I!

http://kennet.skk.se/wds/

Try this link. We are all booked to go, flights, hotel etc!

Lol Kay

With or without dogs?

Without dogs, just going to watch!

Lol Kay

Blimey you're well organised then! :) I only just realised yesterday that oops, we better get the pets passports organised ASAP to be ready for July, so they're going on Monday for the rabies vacc. You'll have to come and find us, if you're looking at Beardies it will be the same day as Malis. :)

Will do Marianne, have to work out (nearer the time) how to meet up!

Lol Kay

Remember that if you want to take a dog that the rabies titre blood test has to be taken more than 120 days and less than 365 days after a Rabies vaccine.

If your Pet passported dog had the blood test done the usual approximate month after the Rabies jab your dog will require another blood titre test at the specified interval after a Rabies vaccination.

the original one will still hold good for getting dog back into UK.

Were going as I have family in Sweden got our flights booked already!

Blimey Barbara, I missed that! Thank goodness you pointed it out. It was 6 years since I imported from Sweden and the rules for exporting to it has changed. How daft, so now we need TWO blood tests.... What I don't get is how they put both on the passport without there being confusion as to which is the relevant one for which country.It'd all make a lot more sense if the UK's rule was blood testing 6 months after vacc and then getting the passport. OH well people do it for Crufts every year so it can't be impossible! At least I speak both languages!

There is a page for further titre tests, generally used when they lapse. 

I have just got my pups blood taken yesterday after her ahving had the Rabies jab 6 months ago, as kepot putting it off as not ahving the money.  That way if I ever want to travel to Sweden or Norway she will not have to have another.

Thought I had best get it done, £72.50, ouch.  Today had to get blood test for kidney function £47 for her Mum as our breed are starting to screen for Juvenile kidney (ERD) problems found in a few individuals around the world.

She will also need her Rabies booster next month.

You only need to do the titre test once if you wait long enough to cover everyones rules, which is why I have waited with the pup, and then if you keep the Rabies up to date you never need another.

Each of mine that have been done have only ever gone out of the country once each.  Not going to bother redoing Jozi's as don't think I will be showing her as a Veteran overseas, and she won't be being bred from again at 8.

Alas it's too late for that. Rabies vacc on Monday, then another jab a month later which would then be early Nov. If I was to wait 120 days aftrr the second one (which is what it says on Jordbruksverkets site, blood test after SECOND jab) that would mean roughly March for the blood tests, and then 6 months wait after that for DEFRA means the dogs could not get back to the UK until September. I couldn't cope with staying with my mum for 2 months LOL!! (The world show being beginning of July.)

It doesn't have to be 120 days after the last oen does it, but 120 to 364 days after any one?

It does say after the second one of the two initial ones. (At least it does in the Swedish version, I didn't read it in English.) Mine have never been rabies vaccinated before so I'm going for the two shots to play safe.

I have only ever had one initial shot with any of mine and their titres have been fine, including the bitch whose Mum was already Rabies vaccinated (thinking maternal antibodies).  As the Rabies vaccine isn't administered until after 12 weeks I assume it is to get way past maternal antibody interference.  In the past you could give Rabies vaccine to very young pups that were going abroad because their Dams would not have been Rabies vaccinated.  One of mine went to Poland so was Rabies vaccinated at 8 weeks and able to travel 21 days later.

If you already have a blood titre test done before and then Defra will take the 6 months from the original one as long as no interruption in Rabies vaccination.

If it is a first Rabies vaccination then you can have a titre test done a month after vaccination so that it will become effective for UK six months later, and then have a second titre test taken 120 days after the Rabies vaccination in order to allow you to travel into Sweden.  This is what most people will be doing whose dogs have already been titre tested, as long as the last Rabies was done less than 364 days ago, and is what I would have to do if I wanted to take Lexi, though I would have to wait another four months to do it as her Rabies is due October, with last one given nearly two years ago.