[NAGDU] DOT travel forms, again

Sat Jun 15 07:34:38 UTC 2024

Aloha,
Yes, Hawaii requires the blood tests for rabies - because WE don't have rabies in our state!!!!! And we don't want it!
So we need to be damn sure that no dog is coming in with it. So please if you want to come to Hawaii, please follow the law and get your dog blood tested ahead of time! We would all very much appreciate it. We have to do the same when we leave Hawaii and want to return home!
Thank you very much!
Debbie

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Wow, the blood tests are required, as I understand it, in the UK, Mexico, and most of Europe. I think someone told me that Hawaii does too although that doesn't sound right.
It was on the airline's web site about the dog food and I confirmed with a friend of mine who travels a lot and he said that in Mexico you are allowed to bring in one day's portions. He always just packs enough for the full trip and they don't check. If it hadn't been for the timing on the blood test I might have done so as well. It's so frustrating.

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Hi Joy.
I've never had any issue bringing dogfood into Ireland.  I don't have to do a blood test for Igloo, either.  I just have to have a USDA-approved vet fill out all the paperwork within 10 days of travel, and give Igloo a tape worm treatment a day or 2 before we go.
It would be more complicated if we were going into Northern Ireland, which is still part of the UK, but we're staying in the south.
Tracy

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Tracy,

I am so sorry to hear that you are having these problems.

BTW, how are you dealing with the issue of not being able to bring your dog food into the country. I was going to bring my dog with me on our trip to England this July but because of the time constraints of getting the blood tests between convention and our flight I decided not to do it. The icing on the cake was the part where it said that I could not bring my own dog food with me. At that time the dog food that I was feeding her is not available in England. This apparently is not unique to Britain as there is a similar requirement in at least Mexico, and I'm told other countries. Either  way, I would never travel with a dog and change their food immediately upon arrival. That could be rough on the dog and me. Not my idea of a relaxing vacation.

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Subject: [NAGDU] DOT travel forms, again

I'm going back to Ireland in October, and I want to take Igloo.  It's been helpful to have him with me there, despite the many hassles of making it happen.  (BTW, I've been to Ireland 3 times with a dog now, and not had any trouble at all once I've arrived.)

I'm flying to Ireland on an Irish airlines, but someone during booking said I have to fill out the DOT travel forms.  I have done so, with the help of AIRA.  Now the trick is to find out where to put the darned thing on the airlines website.  After spending at least half an hour trying to figure that out, I found a place to contact disability services and ask.  When we called disability services on the phone, the person we got was clueless.

Why does this have to be so hard?!  DOT's estimate of 15 minutes is utterly ridiculous, and I said so in my recent comments.  I estimated 45 minutes, and that may be on the low side.  The whole thing deeply offends me.  Every time, I hear some Nazi thug yelling at me "Where are your papers!"  But I must never forget that, as a disabled person who uses a service dog, I am a second-class citizen at best.  Grrrr.

And now the CDC is going to require some kind of form to let me back in the country.  Huh, and to think at one time I thought the process of getting the Irish health certificate was the complicated bit.  Now it's my own government making me nuts.

Tracy

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