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 know before you flyMicrochip, rabies vaccine, booklet or health certificate — what a "pet passport" really covers, and why the paperwork changes depending on where you're going.
- Flying with an anxious dog: how to actually prepare for the flightCrate desensitization, what veterinary medicine really says about sedation, and how to pick the right flight — the levers that matter for a dog stressed by air travel.
- 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.