Limitations and safety

The boundary

This site provides general information assembled from cited official sources. It is not veterinary advice, not legal advice and not customs advice, and it is not a party to your move.

Nothing here guarantees:

• that your pet will be granted entry;
• that an airline will accept your animal or your crate;
• that quarantine will run for the minimum period, or release on any particular date;
• that your animal is medically fit to fly.

Those decisions belong to the destination authority, your carrier, the quarantine facility and your veterinarian. Every one of them can override anything you read here, and each has information about your specific case that this site does not.

Where automated answers break

Being explicit about failure modes is more useful than a disclaimer:

• Stale evidence. Rules change without notice. Every answer here carries the date it was verified; if that date is old relative to your travel, re-check the source yourself.
• A case the rules were not built for. Unusual routings, residency questions, contested breed determinations, animals travelling unaccompanied — these get an explicit refusal, not a best guess.
• Ambiguity in the source. Where an authority’s wording genuinely admits two readings, the page says so and points you to ask the authority. It does not pick the convenient one.
• Conflicting layers. A government may admit an animal that an airline will not board. Both are true at once, and only the airline’s answer gets you on the aircraft.
• Individual discretion. Officials and veterinarians exercise judgement that no rule engine can predict.

The welfare boundary

Some things this site will not do, regardless of demand:

• It will not help route around a restriction that exists for animal-welfare reasons.
• It will not advise on whether an individual animal — snub-nosed, elderly, unwell, anxious, very young — should fly. That is a veterinary judgement, and this site will consistently send you to your veterinarian rather than answer it.
• It will not present a timeline so tight that meeting it depends on nothing going wrong.
• It will not encourage travel where the honest answer is that the animal should not travel.

If you are short on time

The single most expensive mistake in this domain is starting late and then compressing steps that cannot be compressed. If your dates do not fit the required waiting periods, the options are to move the travel date, to travel without the animal for now, or to hand the move to a professional shipper — not to look for a shortcut. This site will not invent one.