Pets on Private Boats

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   Name: Janet Cutts on Dec 21, 2012

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   Name: Anonymous on Dec 21, 2012

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   Name: Sue Leaman on Dec 21, 2012

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   Name: Roger Leaman on Dec 21, 2012

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   Name: Ceridwen Ponzi on Dec 22, 2012

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   Name: Nick Cutts on Dec 23, 2012

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   Name: Spencer DeFriend on Dec 24, 2012

   Comments: We used P&O this year crossing by car with the dog and not a problem, but I can foresee a time when we will bring the boat and dog back to the UK. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

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   Name: Anonymous on Dec 24, 2012

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   Name: Peter Dukes on Dec 25, 2012

   Comments: DEFRA, pease apply some common sense and do something!

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    Name: Anthony Dorrian on Dec 29, 2012

    Comments: There must be a legal way to handle this issue. If not, people will try and smuggle pets into the country. The pet owners responsibility is to ensure that their port of entry to UK will administer the DEFRA requirements.

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    Name: Jodie Normoyle on Jan 3, 2013

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    Name: Ray Payne on Feb 8, 2013

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    Name: Mark Freeman on Feb 25, 2013

    Comments: The current situation is ridiculous, even opening up one marina in France or the UK to this scheme would be a step forward. The current lack of a scheme is discriminatory to Private boat owners and the previous one exposed single handed sailors to unnecessary risks . private boat owners need to be accommodated now. Retired Police Inspector

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    Name: M.Cowen on Feb 25, 2013

    Comments: What is Defra doing about it-With all correct documents, there has never been any problem with taking our dogs abroad to date.

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    Name: Richard Gurney on Feb 25, 2013

    Comments: Could not agree more wholeheartedly. I have a passport and I can travel, why can my dog not travel although correctly documented?

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    Name: J.Q.Ballardie on Feb 25, 2013

    Comments: What is this country coming to when we can't bring our pets home even with all correct documentation. How sad!

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    Name: Michele Gurney on Feb 25, 2013

    Comments: Something needs to change!

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    Name: Michele Gurney on Feb 25, 2013

    Comments: Something needs to change!

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    Name: Anonymous on Feb 26, 2013

    Comments: I fully support this petition. I am not happy that my husband has to do a long crossing singlehanded whilst I and the dogs have to travel by car on a ferry.

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    Name: Anonymous on Feb 28, 2013

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    Name: Helen Thomson on Mar 5, 2013

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    Name: Jon Schneider on Mar 6, 2013

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    Name: Colin Campbell-Dunlop on Mar 6, 2013

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    Name: Ali Pery on Mar 15, 2013

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    Name: Shane Warriker on Mar 15, 2013

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    Name: Roland Green on Mar 29, 2013

    Comments: The law needs to be changed.

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    Name: Luc DHAESE on Mar 29, 2013

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    Name: Claire Clark on Mar 29, 2013

    Comments: I have a dog who is micro-chipped, has her annual vacanations and a healthy dog who is part of the family, she should be able to come on passages with us

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    Name: Michaela Gregory on Mar 29, 2013

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    Name: Nicola on Mar 29, 2013

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    Name: Stephanie Kershaw-Marsh on Mar 29, 2013

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    Name: Lucy Whelan on Mar 29, 2013

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 29, 2013

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    Name: Ian Edwards on Mar 29, 2013

    Comments: I think a pets passport should be sufficient to allow entry of a pet into the UK. The procedure outlined in the petition is sensible and practical and should be adopted by DEFRA. Government needs to start listening,

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    Name: R.WALKER on Mar 29, 2013

    Comments: Let our pets come home.

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 29, 2013

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 29, 2013

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    Name: Robert Dorey on Mar 29, 2013

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    Name: Peter Barrett on Mar 29, 2013

    Comments: It is easier, and less costly for Defra to do nothing, rather than for someone to apply their grey matter and make sensible provision for people other than those taking cars across the channel. More profitable for ferry companies to hide behind 'animal welfare' to try to force people into using a car.

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    Name: Robert Wilson Thomas on Mar 30, 2013

    Comments: For very little change and additional administration, an unfortunate gap between the the carriage of an animal on board a private yacht and one transported on a commercial ferry may be plugged. There is no practical way to the carry an animal on board a private yacht. The recommended solution is for yachtsmen to avail themselves of cross channel routes as a foot passenger, accompanying a dog. This is no longer practical for returning an animal to the UK.. If I wish to take my dog with me, the only route available was P&O from Calais to Dover. P&O have just announced that they will no longer accept reservations for foot passengers with pets on their Calais Dover service. This means there is no way sailors can legally return to the UK with a pet. With ferry companies not willing to convey pets unless they are in cars it does seem that the options open to sailors with pets are totally unworkable and consequently there are no options. Unless DEFRA was minded to change the rules the likelihood is that many more crews will just sail home with their pet despite it not being legal and risk the pet being placed in quarantine and the owner being fined. As a proposal to resolve this position my suggestion is that:- 1. All pets sailing across the Channel to be required to have a pet passport, 2. All pets to be treated and checked by a vet in France prior to travel to the UK, 3. All owners to be required to e-mail DEFRA with their intended crossing date, their boat and pet details and their ETA into the UK and their port of entry. This information to be passed to the port of entry, 4. When all of the above has been completed pets should be allowed to travel on private boats, 5. On arrival in the UK all pets should remain securely on board in their port of entry until their pet passport has been checked. Checking of the pet passport to be done by a body other than the ferry company. This would require DEFRA to authorise other bodies to check pet passports in addition to the ferry companies. The threat to the UK can be minimised if these rules are followed. Without a change in the rules, the law is likely to be honoured more in the breach than in the observance. The UK is isolated in Europe. With the exception of Ireland, no other country places such restrictions on the free movement of animals. Respectfully I call on DEFRA to pursue a change in the regulations.

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    Name: Judith Pennell on Mar 30, 2013

    Comments: System seems to be getting worse when it should be getting better..........

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    Name: Judith Pennell on Mar 30, 2013

    Comments: System seems to be getting worse when it should be getting better..........

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    Name: Richard Pennell on Mar 30, 2013

    Comments: about time these stupid regs were updated ,french and dutch boats just seem to ignore them judging by how many have pets aboard.

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    Name: Judith Pennell on Mar 30, 2013

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    Name: Christine Davis on Mar 30, 2013

    Comments: I sail single handed and enjoy the company of my dog when sailing, he is actually an extra pair of eyes and ears on board, he tells me when there are ships coming before I can see them. I am very much restricted in where I can sail because of the rules, and I could not risk getting caught out by the weather and having to seek shelter where I couldnt bring my dog home from.

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    Name: David Dean on Mar 30, 2013

    Comments: Either we have an E U or we don't. Lets have a level playing field right across the E. U. - OR - "Slam the door shut" and look inwards. We've had plenty of that imposed on us by bigots, in our history. Plenty of wildlife gets across the channel as well as the worlds oceans. Why do we have to be treated as ignorant fools by incompetent organisations like DEFRA? Look at the latest - the wonderful "Common Fisheries Policy". Not a failure despite legislation, a failure because of legislation. Inmates are running the asylum it appears at times. How else would Europe and the Euro be in this mess?? Take great care how you vote. Regards Dave

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    Name: PETER LOUGHLIN on Mar 30, 2013

    Comments: Stenna Line into Harwich allows foot passengers with dogs.

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    Name: David Tyler on Mar 30, 2013

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    Name: Anonymous on Mar 30, 2013

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    Name: Wim Vandenbossche on Mar 31, 2013

    Comments: Better to have a procedure in place than have people smuggle pets in illegally.

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