Pet passport check on return from Germany

[Devongirl]

Please can someone recommend a vet in Germany, close to the border en route to Calais, for worming tablet and checking our dog’s pet passport prior to our return to UK in just over a week. We are in the Mosel region travelling from Trier to Koblenz or Zell (exact itinerary yet to be decided). We’ll be returning to UK via the tunnel and want to avoid quarantine if possible hence wanting the vet check done in Germany. Also please could you explain the exact requirement and how much it is likely to cost. Our dog obviously has a pet passport but it’s the first time we’ve taken him abroad so unsure of the process . Thank you in advance

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

There was a thread with a map of Europe vets, if you put a search into fun for 'vet map' and scroll down a few post there is a link.

 

[DBK]

If you don't get any strong recommendations just use Google maps and search for "vetinarian" as shown in the screenshot below of Koblenz. Check the reviews of places and you may find some in English although I suspect language won't be an issue.

 

[Marty Gilly and Pup]

Christian Marks. Bernkastel-Kues. Best entertainment you’ll ever have for a worming. Also efficient and cheap. We’ll be there next week I think. Again.

 

[JockandRita]

There was a thread with a map of Europe vets, if you put a search into fun for 'vet map' and scroll down a few post there is a link.

Christian, the vet at Bernkastel Kues gets very good reports, and is very reasonably priced apparently. I do believe Theonlysue, zulurita, bobandjanie, and Red Sonja are all happy customers.

Good luck getting sorted.

Jock.

Edited...... Marty Gilly and Pup beat me to it.

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[Oscar]

We can second Christian Marks too. You can park the motorhome just down the road (first hour free), he speaks excellent english, has a superb sense of humour, expect to pay somewhere between 6 - 12 euros & that is including the wormer(s). You can email or ring for an appointment, he usually just tells you to turn up during surgery hours.

 

[Theonlysue]

Charged €7 for my chi.
Phone up first thing, as he may have to go out. Moho parking a few mins down the road .
Red mark is parking. Gold star is vet

 

[Bilbo Baggins]

Don't forget it has to be between 5 days and 24hrs before crossing.

 

[Minnie]

Wow that’s cheap. We have been charged anything up to €80 minus tablets ( Sweden)
It’s good to know there is a good one in Germany. We are returning to uk next week so will give him a call
Thanks for the help !

 

[Devongirl]

Thank you very much everybody for the advice. Think we will use Christian Marks, sound like a great recommendation. Also thanks for the advice that it has to be done 5 days to 24 hours before crossing as I wasn’t sure on that

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[DBK]

Thank you very much everybody for the advice. Think we will use Christian Marks, sound like a great recommendation. Also thanks for the advice that it has to be done 5 days to 24 hours before crossing as I wasn’t sure on that

Technically it is before arriving not departure. This shouldn't be an issue on the train but it can be on long ferries from Spain.

 

[Glynbo]

The problem you might have is that you will be setting foot in France when you have to go into the Pet Passport center at the Tunnel so therefore technically you will have to Quarantine when you get back.

 

[Devongirl]

The problem you might have is that you will be setting foot in France when you have to go into the Pet Passport center at the Tunnel so therefore technically you will have to Quarantine when you get back.

Oh dear, hadn’t thought of this. Is this definitely the case? We always knew we were taking the risk of quarantine but would rather not!

 

[Glynbo]

If you have a pet you have to use the pet center so you will have set foot on French ground.

 

[Landy Andy]

You are allowed to set foot in France, you just aren’t allowed to mix with people in France, or other naughty countries. Although they don’t count people who are involved with the customs procedures. They are also offering a ”drive through” option which is what we did in our motorhome. We didn’t actually drive through their building, but they came to our window where they handed us a chip checker, and we handed them the passport.

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[Landy Andy]

Oh dear, hadn’t thought of this. Is this definitely the case? We always knew we were taking the risk of quarantine but would rather not!

No you will not need to Q for customs procedures.

 

[Hirsch]

If you have a pet you have to use the pet center so you will have set foot on French ground.

Just hover

 

[Lynne Roy]

Be careful at pet passport, there are people looking to hitch a ride, I took the dog and hubby stayed in the van

 

[Devongirl]

No you will not need to Q for customs procedures.

Phew!

 

[Devongirl]

You are allowed to set foot in France, you just aren’t allowed to mix with people in France, or other naughty countries. Although they don’t count people who are involved with the customs procedures. They are also offering a ”drive through” option which is what we did in our motorhome. We didn’t actually drive through their building, but they came to our window where they handed us a chip checker, and we handed them the passport.

I‘m going for the drive through option too if offered!

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[zulurita]

Depends when you arrive as the Drive Through for Pets Passport check isn't always open.

 

[zulurita]

All went well at Christian Marks vets, we had our own worming tablets and charged us 8€ for the two dogs. Never had it so cheap before

 

[Minnie]

All went well at Christian Marks vets, we had our own worming tablets and charged us 8€ for the two dogs. Never had it so cheap before

He charged us €8 for two dogs and he used his tablets !! Cheap as chips !
we told him funsters we’re recommending him. He was quite chuffed

 

[Chris Laing]

All went well at Christian Marks vets, we had our own worming tablets and charged us 8€ for the two dogs. Never had it so cheap before

Some guy Christian Marks not a vet you want to go to if your easily offended

 

[emjaiuk]

Some guy Christian Marks not a vet you want to go to if your easily offended

Definitely not PC, spent most of the time we were with him commenting on the French, hilarious. We spent quite some time trying to get in but no answer from the door bell. Eventually we spotted this bloke moping the floor inside, bangd on the door and he let us in. This was Christian. He explained the door bell rang on his phone, but he leaves the phone on his desk Took us upstairs and there were 2/3 people in the waiting room, god knows how long they'd ben there. He took us straight into his surgery, explaining to the people waiting. IN ENGLISH, that we were on our way to England and he had to serve us first.
Best €8 I've ever spent, worth it for the entertainment alone.

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[Minnie]

Definitely not PC, spent most of the time we were with him commenting on the French, hilarious. We spent quite some time trying to get in but no answer from the door bell. Eventually we spotted this bloke moping the floor inside, bangd on the door and he let us in. This was Christian. He explained the door bell rang on his phone, but he leaves the phone on his desk Took us upstairs and there were 2/3 people in the waiting room, god knows how long they'd ben there. He took us straight into his surgery, explaining to the people waiting. IN ENGLISH, that we were on our way to England and he had to serve us first.
Best €8 I've ever spent, worth it for the entertainment alone.

We stood around like fools outside for ages trying to decipher the paper note written in German by the bell. Eventually the cleaner let us in and told us to wait. He came in 10 minutes later with a bottle of pop and a pie !
He was talking about the French with us. Definitely not pc but cheap

 

[Jaws]

Christian Marks. Bernkastel-Kues. Best entertainment you’ll ever have for a worming. Also efficient and cheap. We’ll be there next week I think. Again.

He even clipped Dillons claws for free !
Only charged us €8 including the worming tablet..
BUT !!!!
Do make sure he stamps and signs the passport !
He forgot to sign Dillons and we got rejected to the chunnel
Had to shoot in to Calais and pay another €35 to go through it all again without a tablet !

 

[Minnie]

He even clipped Dillons claws for free !
Only charged us €8 including the worming tablet..
BUT !!!!
Do make sure he stamps and signs the passport !
He forgot to sign Dillons and we got rejected to the chunnel
Had to shoot in to Calais and pay another €35 to go through it all again without a tablet !

Oh no !!! How annoying , just when you were feeling smug at the saving ! Was it the vets where you have to pay cash , they don’t take cards ?

 

[Parrot Face]

I really liked him. He told me of a 93 yr old English guy who is one of his customers . The old guy drives a motorhome and got stopped for speeding by the German police . When they asked him for his licence he gave them his second world war licence for driving tanks. They accepted this. He then told me of a 80yr old woman he is friends with in Brighton who received a medal from the Queen Mum. He told me that she wears it everyday and is proud of it. He talked a lot about his love of Britain and the Queen Mum so I told him about my dad who was badly wounded defending the naval base near the Forth Bridge on HMS Edinburgh and that he was the first wounded in the second world war on uk territory. When he was in hospital the German Stuker pilot who attacked him was in the next bed. He had the last rites and heroin and the queen mum came to see him and gave him a pair of pyjamas. I also told him that later when he was on HMS Prince of Wales he hunted the Bismark and was sunk in the South China Sea . He listened intently and at the end of my stories he told me that Germany had caused us enough damage and then gave us a silly charge. A really nice guy who was not only generous with his charges but more importantly generous with his time. As we were leaving he escorted us out into the waiting room, that was now getting busy, and showed us all of the things he'd been given by customers. Somebody had given him 3 handmade Welsh shepherds crooks. We left the surgery unsure of what had just happened.

 

[Devongirl]

Having every intention of taking the advice on this thread and visiting Christian Marks, we had travelled further up the Mosel and didn’t want to head back to Bernkastel-Kues. We ended up visiting a vet in Cochem called Dr Frank Feiden Tierarzt, in walking distance of the town centre, who was very pleasant and knew exactly what to do. However he charged €48, including the worming, which was a bit of a shock after reading the prices mentioned on this thread. He did have a lovely view of the castle from his waiting room though!
Pet passport control at the tunnel was very efficient. We didn’t exactly drive through but she came out to us, took the passport away, got it all checked and came back with a sticker for the windscreen.
Sounds like we missed a lot of entertainment not going to Christian Marks. Not to mention the possibility of a free claw clipping!

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