CDC may soon have new specifications for puppies to go abroad

PUERTO PENASCO, MX ( AZFamily ) — The CDC is implementing new rules allowing dogs to enter the United States legally. The dog has to have a chip, and they have to be at least 6 weeks old. People who take vacations with their young dogs and a well-known Rocky Point dog rescue called Barb’s Dog Rescue will have an effect. Most of the puppies they liberate come in famished. Now, the evacuation says they have more than 400 puppies waiting to be adopted, mainly by Americans. The landlord claims that the increased time requirement may sluggish down her activity because of it. We ca n’t stop and we wo n’t stop, which is what I want everyone to be aware of. We have 450 puppies right now at the evacuation, 300 of those pups are ready to go treated, fixed, male, set to travel”, said Gina Benner, the CEO of Barb’s Dog Rescue. The goal of the CDC’s new recommendations is to keep animals protected from rabies, which, according to the CDC, was eliminated in the U. S. in 2007. But, statistics displays canine rabies is never controlled in more than 100 other countries. Anyone who has a 6-month-old or younger dog is unable to take it out of Mexico into the United States, according to Benner. According to Benner, people visit Mexico each day to follow dogs or save ones while on vacation. Your dog had: Look good upon arrival; be at least 6 weeks old; be microchipped; and be accompanied by a CDC Dog Import Form. The new changes go into effect on August 1. ” I do n’t know if they’re going to pull this off on Aug. 1. People who travel back and forth, particularly with their dogs in areas like Rocky Point, are going to be quite an outcry and uproar, she said. Bennett claims that these modifications will have a negative effect on how she can run her recovery and other similar organizations. ” Often, people want to adopt babies, and 6 weeks is definitely going to hurt us. So the query becomes,’ how would they maintain that six months guideline?'” Benner said. According to Benner, some of her customers currently adopt when the puppies reach the age of four months, which is the latest travel requirement. To see if your puppy is go, click/tap around. Discover a typo or grammatical failure in our history? Please visit this to record it. Do you have a picture or pictures of a breaking news story? Give it to us here with a simple explanation. Copyright 2024 KTVK/KPHO. All rights reserved.