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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Simon Calder

Pet passports: What are the rules for international animal travel, and how might they change?

Man's best friend: Simon Calder with golden retriever - (Charlotte Hindle)

British travellers have been hit hard by Brexit – from tight restrictions on length of stay to complicated red tape at European Union frontiers. Ryanair passengers have even found themselves stranded overnight in Portugal because their UK plane developed a fault, and an EU jet was not permitted to fly them home.

But at least human British travellers do not require a rabies jab and treatment against tapeworm before being allowed to visit Ireland. Those are among the unfortunate canine constraints to which Boris Johnson’s government signed up.

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