chilove

Hello! Don't give up yet! There may be some other options for you that are cheaper. 3000 GBP sounds like a crazy amount to transport one cat! Or does that include the quarantine costs? We live in Germany and we could fly our two dogs from Frankfurt which I've read is very expensive. However after doing some research I found that flying them from Amsterdam is waaaaay cheaper! I contacted a lot of animal transport companies and the best quote we got is 800 EUR from Amsterdam -> Singapore -> Sydney for two dogs! One is a chihuahua and the other is around 9kg. The company is Zoologistics. Maybe there's a cheaper option for you as well if you're willing to fly your cat from another country? I found our animal transport company from here: http://www.ipata.org/for-pet-owners/search-on-line-for-a-pet-shipper/ I contacted all of the companies who fly animals from Amsterdam and there's a whole list of them. Where did you get the info from that you have to quarantine your cat in Melbourne? According to the Department of Agriculture website, it says: "The existing department-operated PEQ facilities leases will expire between the end of 2015 and the end of 2018, with no opportunity for extension. From this period onwards, all imported cats and dogs will have to complete post entry quarantine at the new facility in Mickleham, Victoria." http://www.agriculture.gov.au/import/future-post-entry-quarantine-arrangements By the way, do you have a link for the 10 day quarantine reduced to 3 days? I hope this helps! Sending you lots of hugs! xx

Hello again! Thank you for your lovely responses and trying to help us! This is such an amazing community! :notworthy: I'm glad that others who were in the same situation didn't have to repeat the process but it seems that things have changed since then. I'm sorry to hear about your story srg73 but glad it was the right decision for you. DAFF confirmed that there was no other option other than repeating the process. They said another rabies vaccination was not required if the dog had a recent one, so today we had our dog microchipped and blood tested again and now we wait another 6 months. I've come to terms with the microchip disappearing but we probably wouldn't be in this situation if our vet told us correct information. We also would have been able to travel earlier than what we previously planned. When our dog had her first rabies vaccination (she was a puppy) we wanted to microchip her but were told that she was too small. So we waited two months, got her microchipped, gave her another rabies vaccination and did her blood test all on the same day as her titre level was sufficient from her first vaccination. As there wasn't any time between her rabies vacc and blood test, her microchip wasn't scanned again. We thought everything was fine until months later we discovered her microchip couldn't be found at an appointment with the official government vet to do the RNAT test declaration. But looking on the bright side, we are still lucky that it happened now and not 6 months down the line right before our dog flies out. So now we are making the best out of the time we have here and when we look at it realistically, our plans are only delayed by 3 months although July does seem like a long way away.

Hi! We are in a bit of a dilemma right now. We have two dogs that we started preparing for export to Australia. One is a chihuahua and the other a 10kg chihuahua dachshund mix. We did the microchip, rabies vaccinations and titer tests for both of them (which they passed) and planned on leaving for Australia in April this year as 180 days would have passed by then. Unfortunately in the last few days we found out that our chihuahua does not have her microchip anymore. Our vet confirmed through an x-ray that the microchip has fallen out. This is really unfortunate as our vet said that in the last 15 years he’s been practising as a vet, this has happened 2 or 3 times. If we redid the whole process for her, then we would have to wait another 6 months and would be travelling at the end of July. My partner and I are both living in Germany with not many options here and the only reason why we’ve been living here for the last year or so is because of our dogs. So the dilemma we have is should we even take the dogs? Should we take the 10kg dog or none at all? The chihuahua would be easily rehomed but our 10kg dog would most likely need to be put down, neither of which we want to do at all. He is aggressive towards other people and other dogs, has food and crate aggression, pulls on the leash, barks at anyone at the door or when one of us leaves and whines the whole time in the car. We used to also have two rabbits which we also unfortunately had to rehome due to our Australia plans. It still saddens us deeply when we think about our rabbits. The cost to get both dogs to Australia is also incredibly steep (over 4000 euros) and we would also be driving over 600km to the Netherlands to fly them from there as that seems to be the cheapest option. In Australia we would most likely not have that much time for the dogs either due to work. What to do? :sad: