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luckydawg
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BRINGING YOUR PETS WITH YOU

13 years ago

From what I have read on the Ecuadorian Customs website, you can import up to 2 animals, dog, cats or birds at one time. That is two per person, so a couple can import up to 4 animals. Please do the following in order.

1. First make your airline reservations, because you have only 10 days from the date of the USDA certificate to leave the country. Then take your animals to your Vet to make sure they are current with all medications. Your Vet will give you a health certificate that says that. If you have more than one animal, ask the Vet to put both on the same certificate. It will save you $37.00 There is some misunderstanding about the 10 day rule being an Ecuadorian customs regulation. That is not true, it is an airline regulation--so says American Airlines and the USDA office in Gainesville Fl

2. FEDEX that document overnight to the nearest USDA field office that processes paperwork for animal exports. Make sure you include an addressed overnight return FEDEX envelope along with a check for their services. The cost is $37.00 per certificate, if your Vet will put all the animals on one certificate, $37.00 is the total cost.The USDA office is used to this process and will get the documents back to you in a few days. I live about 100 miles from the office in Florida and asked if I could bring the papers in personally, to speed things up, the answer was no. This office processes about 200 health exports per week and they get them out in 2-3 days I was told.

Here is the link to the Ecuadorian Customs website: www.aduana.gov.ec/contenido/procviajeros.html.If you have the Chrome browser installed, it automatically translates the pages for you.

USDA website: www.aphis.usda.gov/regulations/vs/iregs/animals/
When the page opens, look on the right side of the page and click on the link "Find an Area Veterinarian-in-Charge". That will take you to the list of state Veterinary offices. NOTE Don't use the Safari browser, the USDA website doesn't like it.

Hope this helps
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