If you are traveling to Brazil with you pet, this step-by-step will help you find out what documents you need and offer you some other planning tips.
Before you get started, set aside a folder for you pet's travel documents, checklists and notes. Decide ahead of time how you will keep your pet's travel documents in your carry-on luggage. It's very important to be organized in your planning, especially during the 10 days before departure, when you will go through a bureaucratic tour de force.
Ideally, pet travel planning starts when you are choosing your airline. Analyze carefully each airline company's requirements and fares. Call and ask plenty of questions.
Be especially inquisitive about:
Pet carrier, or crate, requirements - Ask about size, kind, material, tags, plastic locks, size of openings and attachments, such as water dispensers.
Procedures prior to check-in - How much earlier should you arrive? Where do you take
your pet?
Where you will retrieve your pet - This is extremely important. Your pet will not necessarily be placed on the luggage
shuttle at your final destination. Depending on the airline, maybe
your pet will be taken directly to another building at the destination airport
and you will need to take a cab to get there. Inquire both about the arrival
in Brazil and the arrival back home.
Where your pet will be if he arrives before you do - If your pet gets transferred to the correct connection and you stay behind for some reason, where will he be taken upon arrival at the destination airport?
Once you decide which airline you will travel on, write a detailed checklist with all their pet guidelines and save it in your pet's travel folder.
