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

Animal Quarantine for Dogs and Cats - at Jakarta Airport

There are many questions regarding Quarantine for Dogs and Cats on arrival at Jakarta, here are some of the information based on our knowledge and experience handling Imported Dogs and Cats.

Based on the regulation dogs and cats into Jakarta or to neighborhood area must go to quarantine for 14 day.

There is no exception for dogs and cats from Rabies Free Country, commercial pets and non commercial (family pets), dogs and cats for showing (exhibition) also pets of diplomatic passport holder's pets. The Quarantine charges for 14 days approximately Rp. 600,000.- to 700,000.- for each dog included food.

What do they do in Quarantine?

Quarantine officers do health checking, Inspecting/observing and taking blood sample at the quarantine station. Blood sample normally taken few days after arrival of the pets (need a minimum number of pets for running the test together) then the result may take around one week time. As our knowledge blood testing mainly for Rabies antibody, not for titer but for low and high / negative or positive.

In case that the animal found low or negative result then the Quarantine Vet must give dog or cat another injection of Rabies.

Can the dog/cat get sick in there?
Quarantine Station is public place, could not expect for only healthy dogs or cats to be there, meanwhile also receiving commercial pets (imported puppies or kittens for sale). The conditions of the imported puppies or kittens could be unhealthy or weak because the treatment prior departing at the origin country may not like the treatment of family dogs or cats.
What the pets' owner can do is to make prevention before the move for dogs and cats. Prior departure give them Bordetella for Kennel Cough (or Pneumadog) and also Flea & tick prevention with spot on (or drop). For cats give them full vaccine, such as: Panleucopenia, Rhinotracheitis, Calici, Chlamidya beside Rabies.

The place & Facilities
Quarantine Station located at the Airport Area, if you enter from the Toll Road after the second Toll Gate then on the left hand side there is a pond after the Airport Entrance Gate. It is on the left side of the pond there is a small road go into the Quarantine Complex. The Quarantine office is close to the cargo area just before the Airport Police Station.

The quarantine kennels are provided with air-condition. There is kennels' staff and Veterinarian in charge all the time.

Visiting Your Pets.
During stay at the Quarantine station your pets may be visited by the owner or representative.

You must take into consideration that your pet will have separation anxiety during the time of moving, then could make your pets in more stress when seeing you for a while at the quarantine but you do not take them home, especially dog who very attached to the owner. Your dog of course like you are very happy when meeting you in there, the dog think that you are going to pick him or her up home at that time. When you are leaving you probably happy have seen him ok and you can plan to see him again next days.What the dog does after you left, might be reversely yours. Dog could be very sad, he couldn't understand why you let him at the quarantine place, he probably won't eat or barking a lot, why you left him etc, etc... depending on how close you and your dog, how he attach to you. He need sometimes to be in stable condition then few days later you show up again, and the story repeated, it could be worse and worse.

Sometimes the quarantine officer offers the owner for bathing their dog or cat. One thing the owner must know, when the dog or cat arrived from traveling need recovery their conditions and adapting to the new environment, some dog or cat even in very weak condition because of traveling time, and some could have dehydration for a while.

Bathing is not a good time for those kind of situation, that can make the animals easily get sick or get respiratory problem such as pneumonia or coughing. It is better to say no to them at the first days in quarantine for bathing your pets, until you know exactly that your dog or cat is in good condition or wait until return out from the quarantine station. Bathing is an additional services that you must pay in addition of normal charges.

Our Importation service will include pick up from the quarantine station and delivery to client's new residence. While we are at the quarantine station for dropping or collecting other customer's pets, we also can visit dogs and cats those still not finished the quarantine period.

Early Released.
Early release sometimes allowed by Quarantine officer. Please check with our representative if you wish for pets early released, for additional cost may involve.

Animal quarantine map:

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Limitation on the number of pets for United Airlines (UA)

United Airlines imposes strict limits on the number of animals allowed in the lower deck cargo holds.
According to UA, the limits are:

For flights under 2 hours:
Extra Small = 15,
Small / Medium = 6,
Intermediate = 4,
Large = 3,
Extra Large = 2,
Giant = 1,

For flights over 2 hours:
Extra Small = 7
Small / Medium = 3
Intermediate = 2
Large = 1
Extra Large = 1
Giant = 1

About Kennel size (Guidance only):
Extra Small = for kennel size of 19 x 12 x 11 inches and 23 x 14 x 12 inches
Small / Medium = for kennel size of 21 x 17 x 18 inches and 27 x 20 x 19 inches
Intermediate = for kennel size of 32 x 22 x 23 inches
Large = for kennel size of 36 x 24 x 26 inches
Extra Large = for kennel size of 40 x 27 x 30 inches
Giant = for kennel size of 48 x 32 x 35 inches

Source: IPATA/UA