Microchipping the cats

My dog has a home again chip and was fine getting in last year.

One more question.....All the paperwork and the pet passport.  Do we need to fill out some forms for this stuff?  My vet is clueless and I didn't see any forms on line to fill in.  So I'm assuming that they come from the USDA vet??  Is a pet passport like a humans'??

The forms come from your vet, unfortunately.  One is the Third Country certificate (no pet passport as those are for animals coming from the EU), which your vet fills out detailing the microchipping, vaccines, and flea/tick/tapeworm treatments.  Then there is the APHIS 7001 form, which is a triplicate form and is a USDA form.  This you get from your vet too.  Once everything is filled out, you take the whole lot to the USDA vet (the main one for your state) and have it signed, stamped, sealed, etc.

Here are links to two threads which explain the whole process:

http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=22296.0

http://talk.uk-yankee.com/index.php?topic=22297.0

There are links to the forms that you need in the second topic I posted above.  The only one you can't print off is the APHIS 7001 because it is a triplicate form.

Hope that helps!

Here is a link I found for that third-party certificate:  newcomer link: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/NCIE/iregs/animals/no_cn_hc.pdf [nonactive]

SO, I went to the vet today and they said they didn't have an ISO chip, I would have to get one myself and they would inject it for me. So I have spent all night reading about the Avid/HomeAgain/Banfield/Crystal fiasco. What a mess.  I was going to go to Banfield so I could get a Crystal one, which is ISO (134.2 kHz) but from what I am reading here the Avid and HomeAgain chips work at the scanners?  They are only 125 kHz; are you sure they work?  Although it would seem to make more sense for the UK airport to just have a 125kHz scanner rather than have us all jump through hoops to get the 134.2 chip, but since when does international travel make sense?    There'd be no adventure in that!

Thanks, friends!

but from what I am reading here the Avid and HomeAgain chips work at the scanners?  They are only 125 kHz; are you sure they work? 

Seeing as at least five of us on this thread have successfully moved pets with Home Again or Avid chips to the UK without having to provide our own scanners.....I'd say they work. 

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The FAVN lab is actually at Kansas State, in Manhattan (KS).  I'm fairly sure you won't be able to courier the blood sample to and from the lab, though, so it's a bit of a moot point.

Why couldn't the sample be sent by courier?  Ours was.  The lab certainly didn't want the cat, just the blood. 

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The FAVN lab is actually at Kansas State, in Manhattan (KS).  I'm fairly sure you won't be able to courier the blood sample to and from the lab, though, so it's a bit of a moot point.

Why couldn't the sample be sent by courier?  Ours was.  The lab certainly didn't want the cat, just the blood. 

I meant "you" as in "you personally" - that we mere mortals (aka the pet's owner) aren't able to carry the sample to the lab - it has to be sent via a real courier/postal service.

Wow - due to the cluelessness of your vets, seriously think about calling up your main USDA vet of your state, as they will then fax over info and advise your vets on the correct protocol for the scheme.

My vet was completely clueless when my cat and I moved over to the UK. But this was four years ago in the very early days of PETS. I didn't mind so much that she didn't know the rules and regulations, though, because she was really eager to learn. We were both constantly looking stuff up on the DEFRA site and printing things out. I was on the phone to her nearly every day and it was a big learning curve for both of us. She was really enthusiastic about it. As long as your vet is interested in doing the right thing by you and anxious to follow the correct procedures, I wouldn't worry too much if he/she doesn't know the ins and outs of it all straight away. Of course, a vet who's completely familar with PETS would be best, but that's not always possible.