Quarantine For Imports

[Brookestar]

There are very few countries in which you can bring in young pups at the moment. Most of them do require a rabies vaccination and titre test and then wait 3 months from then. The first rabies vaccination can be given at 12 weeks. I am pretty sure a second is required, 4 weeks later, 16 weeks. 4 weeks after that a titre test can be done, 20 weeks. 90 days after that is the first eligible important time, assuming all goes according to plan. I would say at best guess, you could bring a dog in at 8 months. There are plenty of tests and will be many more tests that are required to be done in the 30 days prior to import, and that is the primary thing that is changing. At present over 80% of dogs are imported from UK, US and Canada and they all require this at present. What is changing is the number of treatments, blood tests, etc in the final 30 days. It is about treating them before they enter Australia, to minimise the risk here, and hence you can minimise the number of days in quarantine. There are a small number of countries that do not currently require rabies vaccinations and that will change for them.

Like others I would not be counting on it happening in the immediate future and would simply assume current requirements. Some currently have 60 days, so for them the reduction to 10 days will be even bigger.

[espinay2]

Norway for one will require dogs to be older before they come out. In my breed it is notoriously hard to get breeders to run dogs on and bringing in a larger dog can be a big deal for those with larger breeds as costs skyrocket with the extra weight. I know of quite a few dogs imported from Norway (three dogs in my own dogs recent pedigrees were imported to Australia from Norway).Do a google search for Australia on the words 'imp Norway'. Quite a sizeable list!

Edited October 8, 2012 by espinay2