The Pawmit blog
Practical guides for what the route-by-route pages don't cover — preparing the paperwork, the flight, the crate.
- Pet passport: what you actually need to knowMicrochip, rabies vaccine, health certificate: what a "pet passport" really covers, and why it changes depending on where you're going.
- Flying with an anxious dog: how to prepareCrate desensitization, what veterinary medicine really says about sedation, and how to pick the flight — the levers that matter for a stressed dog.
- IATA-compliant crate: how to choose the right sizeThe IATA "5 freedoms" rule, how to measure your dog or cat correctly, and the sizing mistakes that get an animal turned away at check-in.
- Brachycephalic breeds: what airlines actually banBulldogs, pugs, boxers, Persians: short-nosed breeds are excluded from the cargo hold by most airlines — what's still possible in the cabin.
- Flying to Colombia with a pet: what the ICA requiresHealth certificate, rabies vaccine, minimum age: the real ICA rules for Colombia — and the one requirement travelers assume exists but doesn't.
- Bringing a pet into Argentina: what SENASA asks forInternational veterinary certificate, rabies vaccine, import permits: what SENASA really requires — and what it doesn't.
- Chile: the microchip became mandatory in July 2026Ten-day certificate, rabies vaccine: since July 27, 2026, the SAG requires a microchip for every dog or cat entering Chile.
- Peru: the microchip you keep hearing about isn't for entryMandatory vaccine from three months old, fixed fees in soles, deworming: the real SENASA rules for entry — the microchip everyone mentions is about leaving.
- Ecuador: this time, the microchip is mandatoryThirty-day certificate, full vaccination list, mandatory microchip: what Agrocalidad actually requires — the opposite of neighboring Colombia.
- Uruguay: the test they ask for isn't for rabiesTen-day certificate, mandatory microchip for dogs since 2018, praziquantel deworming: the real MGAP rules for entry.
- Paraguay: one rule shared by four countries since 2024CVI, rabies vaccine, microchip, up to five pets per traveler: what SENACSA requires — and why it's no longer a Paraguay-only rule.
- Bolivia: the only country where the permit comes firstPrior zoosanitary import permit, the Gran Paitití system, quarantine only if symptoms appear: what SENASAG actually requires.
- Hawaii: the only US state that quarantines your petTwo rabies vaccinations, a FAVN titer, a thirty-day wait, paperwork filed ten days ahead: Hawaii's regime, on a flight that never leaves the country.
- Health certificate for a US domestic flightNo federal rule requires a veterinary certificate between states. Eleven states explicitly exempt personal travel — the airline can still demand one.
- Banned dog breeds in the USNo US state bans a breed. Twenty-two states even forbid their own cities from doing so — seven hundred municipalities regulate anyway.
- Screwworm in the US: what it changes for travelling with a petSince June 2026, a parasite eradicated from US soil in 1966 is back. More than forty states have imposed movement restrictions that reach dogs and cats.
- The regulation every guide still cites stopped applying in April 2026Regulation 576/2013 has not been the framework for pet travel in the EU since 21 April 2026. What replaced it, and why France was never a single regime.
- Buenos Aires or Bogotá: the same dog, the same Madrid, months apartArgentina and Chile are on the EU's listed third-country annex. Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay are not. That single line decides the whole timeline.
- EU pet health certificate: what changes on 1 October 2026A new certificate model for entering the Union with a dog or cat. Five dates people are about to confuse, read in Regulations 2026/705 and 2026/848.
- Bringing a dog or cat to Great BritainApproved route, a travel document that depends on where you start, tapeworm treatment 24 hours to 5 days out, banned breeds. And the five-day rule almost nobody knows.
- Flying a dog from Colombia to the US: 8 airports onlyColombia is high-risk for dog rabies under CDC rules: a dog vaccinated in Colombia can only enter through 8 airports. Requirements, timeline and official sources.
- Flying with your dog for the holidays: book the pet spot firstPet spots in the cabin are capped per flight and go first-come. What to book first, what the big US airlines allow, and the paperwork for a trip abroad.