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Question:
Do dogs leaving the US to enter Southern Ireland require quarantine?
Answer:
Yes, any dog making the trip will need to have an import license and go through six months in quarantine. (The US does not qualify to be covered by the British PETS Passport legislation, so the open border agreements between Northern Ireland and the Republic are of no help.) The six months quarantine must be at a licensed establishment, of which there is only one in Southern Ireland, at Lisson Hall in County Dublin. You should contact the Irish Ministry of agriculture (MDAFRD) if you require further clarification.
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A more humane (legal) possability is to bring your dog/cat into Ireland from the US would be to move to Europe for a period of more than 6 months, and getting a UK-Ireland pet passport for it there. In most EU countries vets can do this for you, it requires the insertion of a identity chip just below the skin over the dogs shouler, vacination agains rabies (and a few other canine dieseases), and a blood test a few weeks after.
Before entry into the UK/Ireland the dog needs to get a 24/48 hour injection against some parasites.
The passport for pets is in effect equivalent to quarantine (from the point of the risk of rabies etc) - but avoids the trauma of quarantine which actually kills quite a fraction of pets.
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Comment by don2008 on 28th January 2008