International pet travel has become more common nowadays, whether you’re relocating with pets to a new city or country or extending your vacation. While planning a full relocation, from flights to pets’ comfort, one important step is often looking for the microchipping. It’s true that in the most international country, microchipping is not only a recommendation, but it’s also compulsory. Ensuring that your pet has a microchip could mean the difference at the border between smooth entry or being rejected entry.
Here is a simple guide to why microchipping is important for international relocation. What are the processes involved in microchipping, and how does it protect both your pets and travel costs?
What Is Microchipping?
Microchipping is the most important and permanent method of identification. A microchip is a small-scale device; roughly, it will be the size of a grain of rice implanted under the pet’s skin with the help of a syringe between the pet’s shoulders. That can carry the unique identity number that can only be scanned by the portable scanner. The number is copied in the pets’ recovery data collection with owner contact information. Unlike the pet’s collar or the tags, which can be removed, the microchip will act as the permanent identification number.
Why is microchipping important for international relocation?
Most countries will mandate the microchipping. The many countries around the world include the European Union, the UK, Australia, and major parts of Asia. This country allows the pets to enter only if the pets are microchipped. In some of the cases, the pets should be microchipped before the rabies vaccination. If the pets do not meet these requirements, then they are denied entry or sometimes even sent back to the country of origin at the owner’s cost.
Each and every country has a bunch of rules and regulations for importing pets.
EU pet travel requires the ISO-compliant 15-digit (11784/11785) microchip.
Japan mandates microchips and additional health documentation.
Australia has the strictest biosafety rules and regulations, including microchipping, health examinations, and quarantine.
Checking country import regulations in advance and riveting with proper order is a crucial part of shifting.
Health records
The microchipping not only provides your pets’ identity but also links your pets to vaccination and health records. This is important because many countries require proof of vaccination, which must be traceable to the microchip.
In fact, if your pets are vaccinated before being microchipped, the vaccine will not be accepted by the authorities. Always microchip before the vaccination to avoid the unexpected cost and delay.
Microchips protect pets against loss of pets during international travel.
Traveling internationally is disconcerting for the pets. From the airport transfer and cargo hold to new surroundings, because of unfamiliar situations for the pets, chances of getting lost increase. If your pets become lost or separated from you, the microchip is the best tool for reuniting with your pets.
Airport and animal control agencies and rescue animal shelters typically have the scanners that can read the microchip. This indicates that if your pet is lost anywhere in the world, the authorities can easily identify your pet and contact you, and there is a high chance of your pet returning to you.
Microchips help with stress-free traveling.
Knowing the pet is microchipped, you can feel stress-free in case your pet is lost. Your documents are lost, or the pet escapes; there is a substitute for identification that is internationally recognized. The registration details provide the proof of ownership; it can be critical if the clash arrives in the destination country.
How are pets microchipped?
The procedure: The microchipping is a simple and painless procedure that takes only a few minutes and can be done by your vet. The microchip is injected into the skin with a needle similar to a routine vaccination.
Your pets won’t need the anesthesia for the implanting of the microchip. Your pets need no recovery time for the microchipping. Most of the pets don’t notice the implanting, which means it is a painless process.
Registration process:
Having the microchip implanted is not enough; the pets should have a non-ISO-compliant microchip, and it should be registered with a reputable pet registry. And the most important thing is to keep your contact information up to date to avoid unnecessary complications.
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