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There are no quarantine requirements for bringing your pet to Cyprus as long as the regulations on the pet passport are met.
The first thing to think about in bringing a pet to Cyprus is to start the Pet Passport process, it is a fairly simple process:
- Have the animal Microchipped
- Rabies Vaccination, (At least 21 days before travelling)
- Ticks & Tapeworm 24-48 hours before they check in for their flight.
I am sure if you have read my blog that you know that we bought our German Shepherd Maggie to Cyprus with us from the UK, she was just coming up to 13 years of age, so as you can imagine it was a worry for both of us, our vet told us that she would be fine, but there were many little worries, for example was she going to be terrified on the plane, how frightened was she going to be when put in a cage, I had many sleepless nights thinking about what she was going to have to go through, but she made the journey easily thankfully and it wasn’t stressful at all to be honest, but I think I made it bigger in my mind than it actually was.
There are two ways of sending your pet to Cyprus, you can sort it out yourself which was easier than I realized, or you can pay an online company to sort all of the details out for you
There are many online professional animal transport companies that will come and collect your dog a few days before the flight, give them the last of the treatments that they are supposed to have, they sort out the right size cage for your pet, and make the whole thing stress free for you, but the two disadvantages to that is firstly it costs a lot more money to do it that way, and secondly you are not the one taking your pet to the airport, putting it into its cage and staying with your pet for as long as possible, but of course it’s a personal choice.
With Maggie being close to the grand old age of thirteen, I really felt like I needed to keep her close to me as much as I could, to somehow maybe make her stress level not too high, German Shepherds believe it or not are really sensitive dogs, and Maggie would get freaked out quite easily and more so the older she has got, she had also never been in a cage and that was one of my worries.
We were flying from Gatwick to Cyprus so I found the phone number for the dog transport people that the airlines use, they have a big warehouse at the back of Gatwick Airport which is where you take your pet on the day of the flight.
Animal Aircare Company Limited
Animal Reception Centre
Unit 6, Cargo Forecourt Road
Gatwick Airport
West Sussex
RH6 0SQ
Phone No: +44 (0)1293 555580
It was all pretty simple after calling them, they sorted the cage and the flight, making sure of course that it was the same flight that we were taking.
The hardest thing of all was waiting for Maggie when we landed in Cyprus to get brought into the airport from the plane, no one seemed to know where we were to go or if any dogs had been taken off the plane, so we spent a while franticly running around asking people, I think in all it took an hour and a half for her to finally make it through the gates, and eventually she got brought through the arrival gate, we were really relieved to see her again and in one piece and not the least bit worried.
We donated Maggie’s cage to the airport as apparently they are needed, the last thing I should say is if you are leaving the airport by taxi remember to pre book a taxi telling them you have a dog so the car is big enough.
Moving to Cyprus 