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Defra celebrates Pet Travel Scheme's 10th birthday

Published by Arlo Guthrie on Mon, 01 Mar 2010 5:56 PM - 0 Comments
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The Department for Environment Food and Rural affairs has marked the 10th anniversary of the Pet Travel Scheme with the release of some interesting facts and figures... The scheme started on 28 February 2000 when owners were first able to travel to and from the UK without placing their pets in quarantine, as long as they fulfilled certain important disease control criteria. A pug called Frodo Baggins was the first animal to travel with a pet passport and since then, 660,000 pet journeys have been made using pet passports. 60 per cent of the pets that have travelled under the scheme belong to UK...
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