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1. What is dog health certificate?
2. Why is dog health certificate important?
3. Who can issue/ how to get dog health certificate?
Dog health certificate is required to travel with pet. It is required by most countries and airlines to ensure that your pet is healthy and free of diseases. In the below blog we will discuss about the essentials of pet health certificate.
Who can issue/ how to get pet/ Dog travel certificate?
1. Your regular veterinarian:
Most veterinarian are familiar with the requirements for pet health certificate and they can easily issue pet health certificate. The veterinarian should be licensed and accredited through an appropriate authority.
2. Government run animal health clinics:
Government run animal health clinics provide dog health certificates for free.
3. Online:
There are many websites which provide online pet health certificates and cost of which varies depending on the website. You have got the idea of where to get pet health certificate. Now, you should know that what is pet health certificate and what does it include?
What is dog/pet health certificate?
It is an official document that your veterinarian fills out after performing a thorough examination on your pet. Document certifies that your pet is disease free and lists all of the vaccines your pet is up to date on.
What is included in the pet health certificate?
1. Health status of your pet in current situation: The veterinarian will certify that at the time of examination your dog/pet was free of any disease.
2. Vaccination record of your Pet:- A dog/pet health certificate will contain the last date of vaccination of your dog particularly for rabies and canine distemper.
3. General information about your pet: Age, breed, size and gender of your dog will be included in dog health certificate.
Importance of pet health certificate
1. Health certificate assures that your pet is healthy enough to travel.
2. Health certificate prevents your a pet from spreading diseases to the people.
Pet health certificate ensures that your pet is safe from zoonotic diseases such as rabies, Salmonellosis and Leptospirosis. It ensures that your pet is vaccinated against such zoonotic diseases.
3. Health certificate prevents your pet from spreading diseases A pet health certificate ensures that your pet is free from diseases such as parvovirus disease, canine distemper and panluckopenia. It will prevent spreading of such diseases from one pet to another.
We have discussed about pet health certificate, its importance, how can we get it? who could issue the pet health certificate? It is important to have pet health certificate when you are travelling abroad and for maintaining the welfare of your beloved pet.
If you want to know more about it contact our expert doctors on clik4pet.com.
Author: Pashupati Animal Care Services
Pashupati Animal Care Services