{"id":545756,"date":"2026-04-23T02:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545756\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:54:10","slug":"pet-owners-hit-with-steep-bills-after-eu-passport-rule-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545756\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet owners hit with steep bills after EU passport rule change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mike Walton, the owner of two Bichon Fris\u00e9, from near Manchester, faces a similar problem. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Despite being an Irish passport holder and spending part of the year in Portugal, the fact he is a UK resident means he can no longer travel with the EU pet passport. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 77-year-old the BBC that the EU pet passport, which his dogs currently have, contains much the same information as an animal health certificate. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I spoke to my vet, and they told me we don&#8217;t do health certificates,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The other vets who have said they will only do them for their own clients. I&#8217;ve been with my existing vet for 10 years and they know my dogs. Changing vets is not something I really don&#8217;t want to do.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said he had been quoted prices of about \u00a3300 for his two dogs for the new animal health certificates, with a cost of \u00a385 each for new rabies vaccinations required to get the certification. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Walton, the owner of two Bichon Fris\u00e9, from near Manchester, faces a similar problem. Despite being an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-545756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}