Barnaby Longdog - fighting against illegal dog importing

This is a question I have been asked a number of times. The answer is also important to understand my next two posts. Please bear with as it's quite detailed though easily understood. Pet Passport Scheme: this is exactly what is says, a passport for YOUR pet. The assumption is that responsible owners will ensure their dogs are healthy and vaccinations, worming etc are up to date. They are ONLY for use when a dog is travelling with it's owner or an appointed legal representative who is travelling with or within 5 days of your dog from the same country of origin to destination. Further, " you or your representative must sign a Declaration of Non-Commercial Transport stating that your pet's transport does not involve the sale or transfer of ownership of your pet." This is applicable for all animals coming to the UK using the PET passport scheme(exceptions for show or exhibition dogs exist). So, if your dog has left it's country of origin using the Pet p...

Kendra Pinder's name came up time and again whilst looking into the illegal smuggling racket.  Firstly with the charity Action Aid For Animals, AAFA whose accounts were frozen in 2016 and from which Kendra was struck off in March 2018. Charity Commission re AAFA Kendra has recently started transporting dogs again under the name T2f.life. A £5,000 fund raiser was set up to purchase a van for this company, what was actually purchased was a £560 van with a stuck gearbox and T2f's (ticket to freedom) first farcical run ended up with Bosnian dogs coming via Romania on Romanian passports. Exact details are disputed with regards to this, Kendra claiming bad weather was responsible and Nica Bogdan, the driver, claiming otherwise. Kendra has sent me several novellas on the subject of her innocence of any involvement in knowingly importing illegal dogs from Serbia and Bosnia. She further claimed that thousands of pounds worth of donations, given by Zooplus were sold to pay, in pa...