Travelling abroad requires you to have a passport. Your pet’s vaccination certificate is an important document. Not only a proof of vaccination, but it also serves as their pet passport, and is important to maintain as you would yours. Here are a few details your pet’s vaccination record must contain:

• Pet’s date of birth
• Pet’s microchip number, date of implantation, and location on body
• Date of rabies vaccination
• Vaccine manufacturer and product information
• Vaccine batch number
• Vaccine expiration date
• Vet’s signature and contact details
• Description of your pet
• Tapeworm treatment (dogs only).
  
  

**Note: Ensure your vaccination records is stamped twice against each vaccine. Also, ensure to check if your vaccine manufacturer is accepted in the U.K. If you plan to move abroad, consult your vet, and make sure that the vaccines you’ve administered in the country of origin are accepted in the U.K as well.

Your pet must be vaccinated against rabies before any travel to the U.K. Make sure to get them vaccinated at the same time as their microchip. Your pet cannot travel if their vaccination was less than 21 days ago. Since India is listed as a country with high rabies, you will require the results of a titer test before travelling, which can take a while.

A titer test measures the number of antibodies in a particular blood sample. Once your pet is vaccinated, wait for at least 30 days, and then submit a blood sample to a titer testing lab. The lab must be an EU-approved testing facility, which can be inside or outside the European Union.

Once the sample has been submitted to the proper lab and you get the results, the certificate of the blood test must show that the vaccination was successful with a minimum rabies antibody level of 0.5 IU/ml. Your vet should then hand over a copy of the results and update a health certificate with the day and date of sample extraction. The titer test results will remain valid indefinitely, provided you keep your pet’s vaccinations up to date.