Blood Test. How to get this done in Jakarta

Pets Travel to: EU, UAE, Hawaii, Japan, Taiwan etc require blood test preparation

Blood test for Rabies Titre should be prepared before your pet traveling to EU country, Japan, Taiwan, and Hawaii (with no quarantine on arrival). At this moment the requirements for Blood Test Certificate is to show your pets have Rabies Antibody Titre Equal or greater than 0.5 I.U/ml (I.U.= International Unit).

Rabies Injection
First thing is that you must give Rabies Injection to your dog or cat. Puppies and Kittens have their first Rabies injection on age of 3 month. You must wait at least 1 month before we can take the blood sample for test. For Japan and Taiwan the requirements must give 2 times of Rabies Injection before the sample can be use for testing. This is good to make sure that your pet has sufficient amount of antibody in order to pass the test. After the second injection need to wait for 14 days for blood sample taken. Usually single dose of Rabies Vaccine will be more effective than all in one dose, except that you give your pets regularly every year.

Identification
Make sure that your pets has identification required, such as microchip, or tatoo. For Tatoo there are only few country still accept Tatoo, the other require only microchip.
For microchip please select according the country requirements whether ISO standard or AVID only.

Blood Sample.
Our Veterinary Clinic knows how to take blood sample and to prepare a quantity of serum for the blood test. Please make a schedule with our Veterinarian for the blood sample, for dog may be done at home but for cat will need to be in the Clinic. Please ask the Veterinarian to check or to scan the microchip on each pet.

Information and Data:
To fill up the submission form Certificate we will need information as follows:
Pet Owner name and address, Pet Name, Microchip/Tatoo number, Pet's Date of Birth, Date of Injection, Rabies Vaccine (name, batch number, manufacturer).

Sending to Laboratory
Unfortunately we cannot use any Laboratories in Indonesia. Only approved Laboratories on the list of requirements by EU, Japan, Taiwan and Hawaii.
One of them is Biobest Laboratory in UK that we always send the blood sample. For Hawaii we send to Laboratory in USA. After your blood take by our Vet then our Vet will take care for sending and get certificate for your pets, it will take around 3 weeks time to get the Certificate back. The result may be known after 2 weeks time.

In case of failed.
When you have your pet/s failed, then you must repeat to give injection to your pet and wait for 14 - 30 days before the new blood sample taken.

Please consult us for the Blood test requirements, we have been sending many blood sample for Rabies test since the requirements of EU countries started.

Blood Test Certificate Validity.
Some countries like Japan requires 2 years validity with the condition of the Rabies Injection given every 1 year.

You might need to check EU Requirements and Japan Erquirements

Rehydration Therapy for travelling dog and cat

In many cases dogs and cats got sick when traveling because of of dehydration. Dehydrated cat or dog can cause many sickness later on.

During transportation Water container is mandatory available i.e. drinking bowl or bottle or both that attached to kennel door. Your dogs or cats can't ask from the cabin crew when they are really thirsty.

Dehydration can be avoided with preparation few days prior transporting your dog or cat by giving Oral Re-hydration Therapy and also post transportation as well. Especially is recommended for the pets going to be in quarantine after shipment.
One that we use is a two in one sachet of Lectade* for Oral Rehydration Therapy, a pair of powder sachets content Active Constituents.

Section A (1 part): Glycine 6.18g, Citric Acid Monobasic 0.48g, Potassium Phosphate Monobasic 2.08g, Potassium Citrate 0.12g, Sodium Chloride 8.58g.

Section B (3 parts): Glucose 44.61g.

It contains totally absorbable nutrients and electrolytes and replaces lost fuids and electrolytes in scouring and dehydrated dogs or cats. Section A and Section B must be always be used together.

Direction for use (available on each pack):

This treatment is good to be given few days prior shipment. Please consult your veterinarian for the supplies and direction.

For Jakarta please call Groovy Vet Care: 021-72800617.

How To Measure Your Dog When Buying A New Kennel.

This is Guidance how to measure your dog when buying a new kennel for traveling. This measurements is minimum requirements. Taken from British Airways Guidance, but also a requirements from IATA.

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Moving Your Pet/s. What To Prepare?

As being part of the family, your pets move must be prepared very carefully and at earliest possible and some expertise advise will be required.

Annually updated vaccination:

Please check the vaccination records of your pets, for most destination countries required yearly vaccination records for your cats and dogs, especially for the Rabies Vaccination. When it is due, immediate action required to bring your pets to the Veterinarian or the animal clinic.

Although most country required (officially) only for the rabies vaccine but as for your love ones better to give complete vaccination, no point to just sufficient for moving, because that can cost you more later.

Searching for the country requirements to bring pets.
To know the earliest possible time will secure your pets move in time. Some country need special arrangement few months prior departure of your pets. Such as:
Blood test & Microchip.
Like Japan, Hawaii(USA) and Europe (EU) require implantation of microchip and blood test for Rabies Titre Antibody, it must be greater than 0.5 IU/ml. It should be done several months (3-6 months) prior departure date. See links on it.

Kennel size and type of Airline Approved Kennel.

Looking for the kennel for your cats or dogs to travel on the plane must be done properly. First you need to measure the dog, for cat/s you need to weight the cat/s, or you bring your pets to the shop for suitable kennel available.

For the guidance, dimension of the kennel must be high enough so your pet's head not touching the ruff, in some country need to have 8 cm space above the head. For the wide minimum is double its body width of the dog, so your dog can turn around easily. For the length it should be long enough for your dog to lay down in relax and straight position, back leg not touching the back and the front legs not touching the door.

For a Large breed such as Labrador or Golden Retriever puppy you must consider to have the size that suit for your dog until fully grown up few months/years later, otherwise you will need the bigger size for the next moving.

Better to have bigger kennel than smaller size it should be. Most Airlines now is very strict on checking the proper size of kennel, they will refuse to carry when it is too small.

Time frame.

Export document usually can be prepared within a month or 2 weeks time prior departure, it depends on the destination country requirements. Some country need additional documents such as translation into other than English.
Transit permit also needed for country like in Singapore, Taiwan etc.

Where for some destination countries also need an import permit prior shipment.

Check with the Airlines.

Some Airlines like Singapore Airlines and some others refuse to carry certain breeds, like snub nose dogs or cats, Terrier etc, they have a list of breed that banned.

Also when you plan to carry your pets as checked baggage, ask the Airlines if for that time no restriction to carry pets as checked baggage, some Airlines have restriction during Summer time and peak seasons.

What to put inside the kennel.

Do not put dog food or cat food inside the kennel, your dog or cat won't eat it during travel. Buy a water bottle such as Bunny bottle is good for the dog travel, cat using hamster bottle too, but nowadays there are pet stores sell dog and cat bottle for travel. Water is more important for pets traveling.

Do not fill up the kennel with dog toys or blanket, it is important to have space for your dog move during travel, collar for dog will be useful, but leash will be possibly lost on the way during travel.

Old Newspaper or shredded papers will be good to put on the floor of the kennel to absorb wet.

Last Feeding time and portion

If you dog will travel at the afternoon, give only half portion as usual in the morning and no more. In case of transit or stop over you may put in the plastic bag (with zip lock) a portion of meal dry food.

Tranquilizer or Sedative.

Tranquilizer or sedative pills will make blood pressure lower, and on the plane with high altitude usually also make blood pressure low, it would be uncontrollable when the pets at the belly of the plane, nobody around watching it. Pets traveling like human passenger needs good stamina and condition. It's better not to give it. Spray for calming pets might be used, but don't have to.

When the time comes your pets ready to go ask the shipper to put proper stickers on the kennel.

Finally let us deliver your pet to the new home