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Delta airlines who are part of virgin airlines do not allow rabbits in the Cabin – i believe its a UK thing no animal is internationally allowed in the cabin in or out of the UK which is extremely frustrating.
I’ve only ever heard of good things from lufthansa airlines. I am in contact with a veterinary team that specialise in getting animals ready to fly internationally, they have flown many rabbits so im just waiting to hear what they say to my questions.
i was thinking about going to france and flying from there but i need to look more into the importing procedure etc and due to brexit a lot of things are changing but thats 100% i will look into as like you said finnair travel all sorts in the cabin!
Yes we have myxo, VHD and VHD2 in england so mine are vaccinated yearly and will need to be re vaccinated 30 days prior and then have 30days isolation but you can do this in your own home which is good! It’s all just very stressful and figuring out whats best. My are super friendly and don’t care about noise, dogs any animals and are perfectly find going in the car and also going to the vets its just an aeroplane is 100% a different scenario!
Hopefully the person you mentioned can give me some tips when she moved her buns over to Canada!
thank you !!
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Hi!
Ok, so not to scare you or anything, but the biggest point of concern for me after reading your post is the vaccinations. The vet overseeing Chewie’s quarantine told me that import permits are almost never issued to vaccinated buns because myxo and rhv use live vaccine?? The flying cargo part no longer worries me. From my experience and what I’ve heard from other pet parents, Lufthansa has wonderful facilities and knows how to handle pets properly (KLM too, apparently, but I can’t vouch for them personally). At this point, it’s the import permits I’d be trying to sort out, to be honest.
Also, a heads up: you can crate both buns together, but the crate (if you plan to use a large Sky Kennel) will have to be modified quite a bit. Check out Chewie’s Insta and scroll back to April and you’ll see what we were told to do. Otherwise the buns will have to travel in one of those awful wood and chickenwire livestock crates.
Start acclimatizing the buns to the crate in its final travel form as soon as you can. We did months of weekly car trips, overnight lockdowns, and increasingly louder airport/airplane/cargo hydraulics noise desensitization (say hello to YouTube). By the time he got on the plane, Chewie was lounging and couldn’t care less.
The 30 days with weekly surprise checks of quarantine can be done at home, but certain requirements will have to be met (we did a large run / coop inside an isolation tent inside a designated room).
But again, that stuff is details – it’s the permit you want to get on ASAP.
Best of luck. DM me on Insta if you have any more questions, since I never know when BB will load on any given morning.
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thanks for all that information! Yes I did see something about the vaccines, so i will double check with my fellow veterinary gang. Did you have a good experience and was you rabbit ok afterwards? how long before you you planned when to move did you apply for the import licence as i will apply for mine in January to basically get them over as soon as possible (march/april) is that enough time?
Yes i’m currently in talks with one company that are vets and deal with travelling animals aboard and i’ve requested for them to be together, they love going in a carry case its actually monkeys safety net! Please can you let me know your instagram?
That’s a great idea with the noise and youtube i will 100% be doing that!
thank you for all you advice very helpful!
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Contact the Canadians re the vaccinations your buns have had. Locals, evenvets, won’t always be up to date (the pet shipping company I was initially going to go through fudged up our paperwork because the Canadians had just changed some requirements and these “pros” had not checked. This is even more critical now that there’ve been confirmed cases of rvh in Canada!
Chewie was very relaxed and bouncy at the end of his long ordeal. He did much better than his poor mum. lol I started liasing with the government agency, the airline, and my vet six months in advance – about the same time Chewie started his “astronaut training”. But we started making plans a year in advance because we lived in an iffy part of the world. Which is good sice I had to fire the pro pet shipper and start from scratch myself.
If I remember correctly, the import permit is good for three months, so apply three months before date of travel just in case of delays or hiccups.
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