Taking dog on holiday to South

Redwine


Joined: 15/01/2009
Posts: 565

Message Posted:
08/05/2011 09:19

Any one know if the greeks will let a dog into south. All injections upto date.

Poor thing needs a holiday and thought would be nice to show her what the south is like. (Probably want to come straight back anyway)

beeches


Joined: 17/03/2009
Posts: 134

Message Posted:
08/05/2011 09:46

No you can't take dogs across to the Greek side.

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
08/05/2011 09:57

If you succeed in getting your dog across the border, the Greek Cypriots will cheerfully shoot it for you - ouch!



Perhaps KAR should take a van-load across, rather than releasing them on the streets to die a lingering death of deprivation and suffering.



That would give GC border control a bit of a shock - 'Gamoti skilo mou!'

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
08/05/2011 10:29

The trouble is Ten, KAR are "Full to the Gunnel's,"..I believe that there "Tag and Release" is the only thing left for them to do!!........And is far away from my Idea of "Animal Rescue"more an act of desperation......The Dogs are not regularly monitored or Health Checked ( Wormed,Frontline Treated),and often just simply starve to death......

blade


Joined: 19/06/2010
Posts: 1286

Message Posted:
08/05/2011 17:46

Firstly our neighbours in the south are Greek Cypriots not Greeks.

Then how do you know they will shoot a dog if you take it over there. Do you have some proof of what you are saying? Back up your statement or retract it!

tomsteel


Joined: 22/06/2009
Posts: 482

Message Posted:
08/05/2011 18:04

Seek 'accurate' information from both the RoC and TRNC respective authorities to ascertain if dogs are 'legally' permitted to cross the border in either/both directions. Then you will have the correct advice. I have heard it is not permitted, but having never attempted to do it, I am not best placed to advise. I have close expat friends, with dogs, who live in Paphos and they were told it was not possible to transit the crossings with dogs.

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
08/05/2011 22:34

I wonder if the foxes, cats and rats, that 'cross the border' several times a day, have 'pet passports'?



Surely it's past time the Cyps. of both sides made this law!



What a load of 'political tit-for-tat b*ll*cks' it all is!



A friend of mine who'd brought her dogs with her [all pet passport legal] from RoC, soon had a gutsfull of TRNC and wanted to take her dogs back after 18 months - she got a friend to bring anaesthetic from an RoC vet [friend] and injected both dogs and covered them with her coat. Luckily she got through Metehan and across and away without incident.



She told me that a TC had advised her that she could get through with them by going to a 'certain house' on the 'Green Line' which was not separated by 'No Man's Land' - i.e., straight from North to South and unpatrolled. However, yes, you guessed it right first time - the TC wanted some absolutely exhorbitant sum for allowing her to 'avail herself of his facility!'

Marion


Joined: 06/03/2011
Posts: 1816

Message Posted:
08/05/2011 22:43

Whatever one may be able to achieve by foul means, the fair means is that you can't! It is illegal to take animals from one side to another. What the birds of the air, foxes and other wild beasties may do is one thing, but what we two legged folk do with our four legged friends is another.

Just ask KAR for confirmation.

Actually a similar thread has been on here before, with some of the usual (unnecessary) banter but sadly it is a no no. i would LOVE to take my dog to Limassol and walk around my old haunts, and I don't think for a moment that anyone in the south would shoot her (she has relatives over there - other cypriot poodles) but she wouldn't be allowed to get that far.

Maybe one day.............who knows................but not yet.

ronie


Joined: 11/02/2009
Posts: 67

Message Posted:
09/05/2011 09:12

Is this stupid or what??

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
09/05/2011 09:20

Prolonging this sort of antagonism, in the fervent hope that the outside world will take a blind bit of notice, is patently pathetic and simply reflects a retarded mentality!



It's a reciprocal challenge of: 'You can stick your dog's nose up my dog's arse!'