In present times Polish emigrants have even bigger amount in Europe than it was ever before. Plenty of people are moving out to United Kingdom, Netherlands or Norway, looking for better job. Nowadays it isn’t hard to move out, we can use offer of airline companies. But what to do with our beloved pets, which we can’t leave behind in Poland?
How to transfer animals across the Europe?
It isn’t bigger problem if we are choosing to travel by our own car, cause we only need to buy special container to make journey for our cat or dog a lot safer. Also, there are many buses who are offering transfers to Western Europe, however during long, lasting 12 hours trip, our pets will be very tired. That is why the best idea seem to be a journey by plane, especially if we are living to European country, like United Kingdom for example. But before you even buy a ticket you need to know all the regulations to make sure, that your pet will be able to enter the plane.
Formalities
If we are about to travel with dog or cat, first we need to get a special passport for a pet, otherwise journey by plane won’t be possible. We need to go to our vet and make a basic tests for an animals to make sure, that it don’t have any illnesses. Next step is to visit local government and make an appointment. The formalities are very similar like with regular passport. It will contains each information about our pet, like race, name, weight, height, age and more. This document will be also helpful after our relocation, cause local vet will have easier job to open a card file for his new patient.
Transportation
Small airline companies are offering special types of plane tickets for animal. The final price depends on type of an animal. If you are owner of a cat, even big one, you will pay a lot less. Big dogs are more costly, cause type of transportation for them is different. Smaller dogs and cat may travel with us on board, we are buying extra seats for them, but price is lower then regular ticket. Also, if we like our pet to enter the plane, we need to buy for him special container, and it should be inside of it during entire flight. Another case is with big dogs and other types of animals. They also need to be transferred into the container, however they won’t be on board with you but into the st6orage cabinet. You don’t have to be afraid that something bad happen to your pet. If you want to make sure that it will be calm you may give it special type of medicine, your vet will subscribe it for you.