Border Pets
Bringing your pet to Australia
About 7 months of preparation: rabies vaccine, a rabies blood test and 180 days of waiting, an import permit, then tests and parasite treatments in the last 45 days. Pets fly as cargo into Melbourne and stay at least 10 or 30 days in quarantine.
- Exporting from Romania — it isn’t on Australia’s list of approved countries.
- Starting late — the 180-day wait only begins when the blood sample reaches the lab.
- DogsUsing a rapid Leishmania test or a 2ME-RSAT Brucella test — Australia only accepts the standard tests.
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Step by step
- At least 213 days (~7 months) beforeISO microchip + rabies vaccine
Pet at least 84 days old at the rabies shot. First vaccine? Wait 3–4 weeks before the blood test. The vaccine must stay valid until export. - At least 186 days (~6 months) beforeIdentity check (optional, cuts quarantine to 10 days)
Done by your government vet service before the RNATT blood draw (not at the same visit) and at least 180 days before export.
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Watch out
- Every step must be done by a government-approved vet in an approved country, with the microchip scanned at each visit.
- Australia only accepts standard Brucella tests (RSAT, TAT, IFAT) — not 2ME-RSAT, 2ME-TAT or AGID.
- Banned dog breeds include pit bull terriers, dogo Argentino, fila Brasileiro, Japanese tosa and Presa Canario, plus wolf hybrids. Non-domestic cat hybrids are banned too.
- + 2 more warnings for this route in your personal plan
Official sources: www.agriculture.gov.au · www.agriculture.gov.au · www.agriculture.gov.au. Not legal or veterinary advice — confirm with your vet, your airline and the destination's authority.
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