I was wondering would leaving the EU affect the process of importing dogs? Im assuming the pet travel scheme would still be the same so I'm hoping it doesn't change.. has anyone heard differently?

If the UK vote to stay then I guess we don't have to worry

I was wondering would leaving the EU affect the process of importing dogs? Im assuming the pet travel scheme would still be the same so I'm hoping it doesn't change.. has anyone heard differently?

If my understanding is right then I dont think the EU thingy is relevant at all to importing dogs, the process prior to the early 'pet passports' was that dogs which were imported here were put straight into approved quarantine kennels paid for by the owner/importer, they had to stay there in quarantine for 6 months. Non of that had anything to do with EU, it was to do with the quarantine laws, we have been a member of EU since 1973.

The changes with the early pet passport, somewhere around the late 1990's/2000 was that the dogs due to be imported could stay in a country outside UK borders but were not allowed into UK until 9 months (just over) had passed, then they could come into UK without having to go into quarantine.

Someone else may know more details but I think thats a broad outline of the basics, importing is only to do with quarantine, nothing to do with any eu issues unless eu laws apply >as a seperate issue<.
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> <br />The changes with the early pet passport, somewhere around the late 1990's/2000 was that the dogs due to be imported could stay in a country outside UK borders but were not allowed into UK until 9 months (just over) had passed, then they could come into UK without having to go into quarantine.<br />

Basically as written is what I think is right, except wasn't the offshore period 6 months (as it was with quarantine if the dog(s) came straight in, prior to PP).  That time offshore has now been reduced even further.   Again ??? - the DEFRA website will have it all.

I don't think leaving or staying in the EU will affect any of this because Pet Passport involves dogs coming into the UK from across the world.  Would it had been in place when we came back, with 7, from Canada.   Cost a fortune.

wasn't the offshore period 6 months

Yes, as I remember it, it was 6 months, I added a further 12 weeks because some buyers & breeders would/might insist on keeping the pup until the beloved vaccines have theoreticaly taken effect, those being the most cautious types in the context.
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I added a further 12 weeks because some buyers & breeders would/might insist on keeping the pup until the beloved vaccines have theoreticaly taken effect

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Thats just nonsense, yes it was 6 months, my brain scrambles when any numbers are involved.
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I thought and was hoping this was the case with regards to the PP scheme, I feel it would be detrimental and cause a bottle neck event in many breeds if it became harder to import again.

Can't see that there will be any changes to PETS regulations. You can already import under PETS from non EU countries like America, Canada etc

The latest PP changes however was to make sure all EU countries had the same rules, which wasn't the case before.

Hui Goldmali, can you clarify something you wrote -

As far as I have known, for decades the EU countries except UK were able to travel with dogs across all the central & southern european countries eg, from spain to Norway/Sweden and as far to the east until coming the eastern communist block which collapsed around 1991.

My understanding is that only the UK was left out of this and that was specifically because we were rabbies free, so do you mean all the EU countries had the same rules except us, which is my understanding.
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