2. Moving to a Rabies-free Country Complicates Things
You may be surprised to learn that most countries in the world, including those of North America and Europe are not officially classed as rabies free. If you’re moving your pet from one of these places to a country that does have rabies-free designation, you’re in for a whole world of pain with veterinary paperwork – lot’s of paperwork.
We moved from Canada (not rabies free) to Australia (rabies free) so the Australian government required a whole set of vaccinations, blood tests and documentation before letting our pets into the country.
I totally understand why – if they let animals without proof of proper vaccinations, they’d risk the possibility of transmitting rabies. However, it’s important to plan ahead as there is a long waiting period between administering the rabies vaccine and taking the blood test to determine whether it’s worked or not. We had to leave our two with family to wait this out.
