Your Family Pets
If you bring your pets with you, you will have to have medical documents showing that the animals are healthy, and follow some border crossing procedures. Please remember that all documents for your animals must be in English or French.
1 Cats and Dogs
If you bring puppies or kittens under 3 months old, you do not need to show them medical documents. For all cats and dogs dogs more than 3 months, they will prove that they do not have rabies.
If you are coming from a recognized rabies-free country (that is, a country in which there has been no case of rabies for some time), you will need a document from a veterinarian who works for the government veterinary service. in your land, asserting that there had been no rabies in your land for six months, and that your cats or dogs had been in the country all that time. Currently, the following countries are recognized by the Canadian government as rabies-free:
- Antigua
- Australia
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Bermuda
- Cayman Islands
- Fiji
- Finland
- Iceland
- Jamaica
- Japan
- New Zealand
- Norway
- St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla
- St. Lucy
- St. Martin
- St. Pierre and Miquelon Islands
- St. Vincentius
- Sweden
- Taiwan
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- The Teubnerian Library of Greek and Roman Scripts
- Uruguay
Ireland
If you cannot obtain this certificate, you will have to follow the lower steps for people coming from countries that do not know the rabies of children.
If you come from another country, you will ask the veterinarian for a document, so that you know that your cats or dogs have had a current rabies vaccine. If your animals do not have current vaccinations, you must ask your veterinarian to get them up to date before coming to Canada.
Your veterinarian’s current vaccination certificate should include the following information:
- Wisdom and description of the animal: name, breed, breed, color, age, weight, etc. (if you have more than one pet, you will get a separate bill for each.
- Trade name rabies vaccine
- See the number of rabies vaccine
- Amount of years for which it is valid (maximum 3 years);
Unless you come from the United, you will have to pay at the point. entrance The current fees are:
- $30 for the first animal
- $5 for each additional animal
or
- $55 for the first animal if you don’t have the necessary documents
- $30 for each additional animal if you do not have the necessary documents
If you do not have the necessary documents when crossing the border with your cats or dogs, the customs agent at your point of entry will instruct you to bring your pet to a licensed veterinarian in Canada within a certain period of time, so that they can be immunized. Then you will have an immunization certificate from the customs agent.
When you cross the border, make sure your cats are safely in their cars, and your dogs on your leash shackles and cloaks. If you cross the border by car, please make sure that the animals do not roam freely, and remove them easily, so that you can be asked to leave the car, and the customs agents can investigate. If you arrive by plane, ask your customer-service-tips airline what their rules are. Some bows indicate the amount of carriage cats and the length of dog leashes, how many pets you can take on the flight and where to stay on the flight.
If your dog is certified as a special dog (such as seeing eye, guide dogs, etc.), it is not necessary follow any of the above procedures.
2 Birds
Under this writing it is forbidden to import certain birds from the countries of Asia because of the “river of birds”. If you are coming from a country in Asia, contact your local CFIA office to find out if you are allowed to bring your bird into Canada.
You can only take with you those birds that breed and live in cages. You cannot bring pigeons, country birds, or wild birds.
If you are coming from the United States, you will need to sign a declaration at the point of entry stating that;
- Birds are personal care and sell them in Canada
- Birds are healthy
- Neither you nor your family have hired birds in Canada in the last 90 days.
- The birds have been with you for the last 90 days and are not in company with other birds
. You do not want
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If you cannot meet the latter condition, you will need to obtain an Import Permit from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. Please make sure to submit your application at least 2 weeks before the deadline. A Food Inspection Agency employee will contact you approximately 3 days after the Agency receives your application.
If you come from another country, you will have a home;
- Import permit from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. This does not have to be processed in the country you are leaving, so you need to contact your local CFIA office and request an application for your country. You must apply for the application at least 3 months before you arrive in Canada, with several other steps you will need to complete before you can import your bird.
- Contact the CFIA office in the area where you plan to live. You should do this after you already know where you live. A CFIA employee will need to inspect the area where you live. He will then contact your local office and will be able to proceed with your application.
- Write and write a statement stating:
- Birds are personal care and sell them in Canada
- Birds are healthy
- Neither you nor your family members have contributed birds in the last 90 days in Canada
- The birds have been with you for the last 90 days and are not in company with other birds
. You do not want
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Once all these documents are ready, ask your CFIA or Import office to give you a Permit or explain why you cannot bring your bird into Canada.
3 Rodents
You are not allowed to import prairie dogs, Gambian Rats , or squirrels in Canada. Any other rodent concern, such as mice, chinchillas, guinea-pigs, beavers, chipmunks, porcupines, lemmings, groundhogs, etc. There are no restrictions on what can be brought into Canada, and you do not need to obtain any documents for them.
4 Fish
There are no restrictions on bringing your aquarium fish into Canada. You don’t need to get any documents for the fish.
