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It’s a dog’s life visiting the EU
It appears there are new regulations concerning taking pets to Europe.
We have taken our dog, Marley, across the Channel on numerous occasions – initially on our sailing boat, then post Brexit, on the Harwich to Hook of Holland ferry. He is a rescue dog from Spain and has an EU passport so could go backwards and forwards without his passport even being checked.
This year, however, all has changed. We went to Holland in March to see a boat we hoped to buy. For a change, and possibly because it was less than half the price of the ferry, we went via Eurotunnel from Folkestone.
Arriving at the terminal at 0450 for the early train, we were told Marleys documentation was not valid. His rabies vaccination – which at a cost of £150 was checked by an EU laboratory blood test to make sure it was valid –
