To make a hunting trip outside the Italian borders, it is essential to obtain a series of essential documents to cross the border with your hunting companion. In this article we will provide a series of useful information to clarify the subject, however inviting the reader not to stop inquiring at the structures responsible for issuing such documents.
In conjunction with the opening of the hunting season in Italy, many hunters are also inclined to make hunting trips abroad. When preparing a trip of this kind, with the intention of taking your dog with which you always go hunting, it is necessary to know well the procedures that allow the transport of the animal and its entry into a foreign country.
In this regard, to leave the Italian borders and travel throughout the European continent with your dogs, it is mandatory and essential to follow the following procedures: first of all, you need to register with the registry and apply the microchip; secondly, the anti-rabies vaccination is mandatory, which is valid for one year, the latter carried out at least one month before departure and certified by a veterinarian; finally, it is necessary to issue a passport.
If even one of these requirements is missing, the animal is blocked and not allowed to cross the border, greatly complicating the journey that was prepared.
In particular, the passport, written and drawn up in Italian and English, is the same throughout the European Community and is issued exclusively for dogs and other pets. In the passport, in addition to the identification elements of the animal such as the registration microchip, optional photograph, sex, race and date of birth, the data of the owner are available, while also containing spaces for the basic health certificates for enter non-EU countries. In the passport you can write down all the vaccinations, visits, therapeutic treatments and the results of the laboratory tests to which the dog has been subjected, in order to provide more information to the competent authorities and avoid problems at the border.
For hunting trips within the European Union, with the exception of the United Kingdom and Sweden, the latter countries in which additional requirements are envisaged, only the rabies vaccination registered in the passport is essential. For travel to non-EU countries, regulations that vary from state to state may be in force. In all cases it is advisable, before leaving, to inquire as much as possible about the necessary documentation to be produced at the Italian consulate or embassy of the country in which you want to make the hunting trip, since the European passport alone may not be sufficient.
To obtain the issue of the passport it is necessary to follow several operations that require a certain period of time. For this reason it would be advisable to activate these procedures sufficiently in advance, to be ready at the time of departure.
In order to provide a complete overview of these procedures, we feel the need to list them all. First of all, the dog must have inserted the microchip at their trusted veterinarian or at the AUSL veterinary clinic. In addition, the pet must be registered in the canine registry in the municipality of residence of the owner, a procedure that can be performed by the veterinarian after the application of the microchip. Finally, a passport can be issued at the AUSL veterinary clinic, only if the animal has a microchip.
We have mentioned the particular legal provisions for the entry of animals into Ireland, Sweden, Great Britain and Malta.
In these countries, the only accepted means of recognition for introducing dogs to Ireland, Sweden, Great Britain or Malta is the microchip and not the tattoo, and the owner must be in possession of a passport certifying the rabies vaccination. '' performance of a blood test for neutralizing antibodies against rabies virus in a laboratory recognized by the European Commission, the latter carried out 30 days after vaccination and at least 6 months before travel to the United Kingdom and Ireland and 120 days after vaccination for introduction to Sweden. This test must be successful, ie it must demonstrate the presence of a sufficient level of antibodies. The blood sampling and the sending of the test is carried out by the trusted veterinarian.
The dog passport lasts the entire life of the animal and its renewal is not essential.
With this article, we hope to have clarified the procedures and its documents that are needed to hunt outside the Italian borders, bringing your animal with you. We realize that some hunters prefer to rely on the dog with which they often go hunting, without having to rely on dogs hired on the spot chosen for the hunting trip. Through the trusted veterinary clinic and the consulates or embassies of the country where you will go hunting, all the information regarding not only the procedures to be followed for issuing the documents, but also the timing to obtain them will be available. In this regard, we invite all hunters to dedicate themselves in time to this aspect of the journey, in order not to encounter problems at the border.