Pet travel scheme - Pets
For nearly one hundred years, bringing a pet into Britain involved a six month period in quarantine. The Pet Travel Scheme (PETS) will hopefully put a stop to this traumatic procedure, and will allow people and pets to travel more freely as well as maintaining protection against rabies.

A pilot scheme involving the equivalent of pet passports began in February 2000. The new scheme only applies to cats and dogs coming to Britain from Western Europe, and may also include guide dogs and hearing dogs from Australia and New Zealand.

Owners need to have their pets microchipped, vaccinated against rabies, blood tested, treated against ticks and tapeworms and issued with a certificate.

See the DEFRA website for more information about PETS and quarantine laws:
http://www.defra.gov.uk/