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Passengers with family pets at Shanghai Pudong International Airport
What do you require to do to bring your family pet cat or dog to Shanghai?
According to China’s General Administration of Customs, everyone is just allowed to bring one family pet at a time.
All family pets taking a trip to China should have a rabies vaccination within a year of departure and be older than one month at the time of travel.
At the port of entry, customizeds officers will examine and quarantine all family pets entering into the nation.
Pet owners will be needed to complete a form with basic details about their family pets. There are 2 kinds of family pet entry concerns.
1. Pets from designated nations and areas
Pets originating from such locations will be exempt from quarantine, consisting of New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Hawaii, Guam, Jamaica, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Cyprus, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan, Singapore, and China’s Hong Kong and Macau.
They must, nevertheless, reveal the on-site customizeds officers legitimate quarantine certificates and vaccination evidence for their family pets provided by main organizations of the nations they are from.
Pets should likewise be implanted with legitimate 15-bit electronic chips that fulfill the global requirements ISO 11784 and 11785.
Pets without electronic chips will be quarantined for one month in designated places.
Pets should go through a medical health assessment by the main organizations of the exporting nation or area within 2 week of arrival to make sure that they are not contaminated with any of the contagious and parasitic illness in the “List of Quarantine Diseases for Animals Imported to the People’s Republic of China,” that includes rabies.
The following concerns should be dealt with on the family pet’s main quarantine certificate:
1. Information about the family pet (such as breed, taxonomic name, gender, fur color, date of birth, or age);
2. Implanted electronic chip’s number, date and area;
3. Clinical assessment results and dates for animals.
2. Pets from other locations
Apart from legitimate quarantine certificates, vaccination evidence and electronic chips, family pet owners who are not from the designated locations should likewise prepare a rabies antibody test report provided by a lab acknowledged by Chinese Customs.
The antibody titer, or quantity of immune antibody, ought to be higher than 0.5 IU/mL.
If owners cannot offer a rabies antibody test report or an implanted chip, their family pets will be quarantined for one month at designated places.
Based on the preceding 2 circumstances, family pets whose owners are not able to offer quarantine or vaccination certificates will be rejected entry.
Extra ideas prior to travel
- If you plan to bring your family pets to China, please make sure that they remain in health and fulfill the above requirements.
- Some family pets, such as cats with brief noses, disagree for long-distance flight.
- Also, prior to buying air ticket, consult the airline company to see if they use family pet seats or pet transport services. Different airline company business might have various cage size and design requirements.
- Make bookings a minimum of one to 2 months beforehand so that there suffices time to prepare yourself.
