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News from Doris - The Roving Reporter
- November 2022

Bonjour pals, it's adventures in France again.
Well, if you count visiting chaotic family and driving for days adventures (I do!)

As many of you know we have relatives that live in Montpellier so I am regularly being wheeled around the cobles and back streets in the endless search for the perfect baguette. Personally, I prefer the Spanish version but that's doesn't go down very well with the French side! Anyway, we stayed a week with them and had a super time between there and Palavas les Flots which is a fishing/tourist village just on the coast outside Montpellier. It's where one of my French vets is so I popped in for my worming tablet to come home.

  What they didn't do, and Elaine didn't notice, is stamp the passport by the worming tablet record. It was all signed and stickers in but for some reason the vet forgot the stamp. This wasn't spotted until we were obliviously at French pet passport control in Calais wondering why the receptionist was pulling a face. Can you imagine, lot of head shaking and discussion when you are limited due to pet times and not on a flexible ticket with only an hour before the shuttle. 'No' she said.... Elaine felt sick, I sniffed the wall. 'It is not valid as the stamp is missing' Oh dear. 

  Luckily, the lady was very understanding and as it was a vet error and I as had many, many stamps in my passport she waivered the problem.

There exists a form called the Pet Travel Scheme Non-compliance Return for Dogs, Cats, and Ferrets. It's a few pages long but has a Failure section that allows travel. There are 11 sections within that can be ticked and allowed through, some relating to rabies vaccine times, some relating to stickers. 



So, the moral of the story is, double check your passport and make sure the vet fills and stamp all the parts and if refused entry on a with a passport double check compliance possible waivers. And smile nicely at the receptionist!
Doz, thankfully back home. 

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