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...

Dea Bella asked me to leave them in peace!  Well Dea, I will once you stop sending illegal dogs to the UK. You advertise a pup as being ready to leave Serbia once it's 6 months old. That is illegal as well you know. To be compliant with UK import regs, the earliest the pup can be rabies vaccinated is 12 weeks, then a 1 month wait then titer test (FAVN) then a further 3 month wait. Pups can NOT leave Serbia until they are 7 months old . Further, you are sending dogs without a UK RBU and that is simply irresponsible. You are aware of the dogs who have been sent over and bitten children? Who have attacked adopters other pets? Who have arrived with serious health conditions? So what happens in these cases, the owner is left to cope with the situation and you wash your hands of it? Still no mention of FAVN or health cert below Dea and how can you legally bring this dog out of Serbia? As a non commercial export , the dog must travel within 5 days of it's owner and as a comme...

Marinela Tudor manages the TRACES unit in Arad Romania, one of several who falsify documents to send Serbian and/or Bosnian, Bulgarian and Ukrainian dogs on Romanian TRACES. Others are Ionel Puscas at Danyflor, Timisoara and Rudi Hoffman at Pet Shelter, Bucharest. You have to understand the money involved to realise why this corruption exists. In some cases, local governments are funding these shelters to the tune of approximately 20,000 euro a month. In GBP terms, that is approximately £120,000 a year. Yet, despite sterilisation campaigns and tens of thousands of dogs being rehomed throughout Europe each year, the number of dogs do not appear to be decreasing.  In addition to local funding, these units benefit from overseas donations, fees for dogs put through traces and selling passports. If the problem of stray dogs was resolved, these people would be out of business. When I started this, I had no idea what TRACES, BIP, FAVN or many other acronyms meant and so it has...