Travel Tips
Travel Tip: Adopting Pets Overseas
WAIANAE, Hawaii -- A dog peers over a wall as volunteers clean its living area at the Friends for Life Animal Rescue Shelter here March 13. The shelter rescues animals, restores them to health and prepares them for adoption into a loving family.
More and more travelers return home with an unexpected souvenir.
Travelers are adopting pets overseas. And with few exceptions, it has become easier for you to bring home a dog or cat from a foreign country.
And some countries or destinations may even help with shipping it home. First, you always need to get the pet examined and get a health certificate. And all entering pets, into America, must have a rabies vaccination unless the country is deemed rabies-free. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a list on its website.
Then, there are airline rules. Delta, for example, requires a pet to be at least 16 weeks old. But, here’s the best part, you don’t
necessarily have to travel abroad to physically rescue an animal.
SPCA International maintains a database of animals all over the world in urgent need of adoption.
Also, Pilots and Paws is a volunteer group of pilots and shelter workers who can often work with you to bring your new pet home with a minimum of cost.
By Peter Greenberg for PeterGreenberg.com
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