Paw Passport · For every travel companion
Your bestie gets a passport too.
Dog, cat, ferret, one extremely well-traveled parrot. If they crossed a border with you, they get a page.
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Register your pet
Name, breed, photo, and the countries they have crossed.
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Add border crossings
Entry dates, how you traveled, any good border-control stories.
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Get a public passport
Shareable. Magnus already has his.
Example · so you know what yours looks like
Magnus Waffles
13
Countries
3
Years
2
Continents
"Everyone I meet is a new best friend."
Open his passport →
The Paw Passport · a field guide · PDF
Crossing borders with a dog, without the part where you cry at a checkpoint.
Written from 13 countries and one transatlantic flight, by someone whose dog weighs 35 kilos and has opinions. The law is the free part. What happened at the border at 11pm with a Samoyed in the back is the part you pay for.
On the house · read it first
Four ways to get turned back at a border with your dog.
The four mistakes, in full, because they are the most searched and the most useful. Three of the four are about order, not paperwork.
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Chip first, then the rabies shot. The other way round does not count.
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21 days, counted from the end of the protocol, not from booking the ferry.
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The booster has to land inside the old one. Miss it by a day and the clock restarts.
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Puppies: 12 weeks at the shot, then 21 days. Roughly 15 weeks before a first border.
In the guide
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Leaving the EU: listed vs unlisted, and why no secondhand list can be trusted (four official sources, four answers).
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The one blood draw before you leave that makes the three-month wait to come home disappear.
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The tapeworm window for Finland, Ireland, Malta, Northern Ireland and Norway: 96 hours, and it shuts a day early.
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A 10-minute check before every single trip.
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Hotels that genuinely take a 35-kilo dog, long drives and EV charging stops, ferries, trains, and finding a vet abroad before you need one.
€9
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Built on the 2026 EU pet rules, Regulation (EU) 2026/131. Version 1.0, rules verified 28 September 2026. Every rule carries a source. Find something out of date? Tell hello@thatlayover.life and we reissue it to everyone who bought it.
Not legal or veterinary advice. Your vet has the final word.
On the passport
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Magnus Waffles
Samoyed · 13 countries
Open slot
Any species, with paperwork · Awaiting a first trip
Open slot
Any species, with paperwork · Awaiting a first trip
Add your pet
The logistics that save the trip
EU Pet Passport
What it is, who issues it, and how long it takes.
Large-dog-friendly hotels
Real “large” means over 25kg welcome, verified.
From the Paw Passport