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Guidance and legislation covering pet welfare and animal cruelty.
When your pet must go in quarantine, how to book a pet carrier and quarantine premises, and how to get your pet released from quarantine.
Advice and guidance on protecting animal welfare.
What you must do to bring your pet to the UK from Ukraine if you are seeking refuge.
What you need to do if you find, own or look after a listed invasive non-native (alien) animal in England and Wales.
How to unload, handle and hold animals at sites where animals not for human consumption are killed, and how the site must be designed.
Apply for a licence to move and keep certain non-native (alien) species for animal welfare purposes.
If you’re responsible for a farm animal you must make sure that you care for it properly.
Rules for feeding, watering, prioritising, holding animals for slaughter, and the design and layout of a slaughterhouse.
Find out what you must do before you get a pet pig, how to register as a keeper and get a pig walking licence and what you can feed pet pigs.
Report a dead or injured animal such as a badger, fox or domestic pet found on the road
Rules of shackle line operations, waterbath and gas stunners, and facilities for slaughtering poultry, rabbits and hares in abattoirs.
How to get a licence to sell animals as pets, and the conditions you'll need to meet.
Information on the legal responsibilities of people who own or care for domestic pets
Animal by-products (ABPs) you can use to make pet food, how to provide samples, and how to package your products.
Where you can build a pet cemetery, the animals you can bury there, how it must be built and how to register.
Apply for an authorisation to manufacture extemporaneous preparations, autogenous vaccines, stem cell products or blood products for non-food animals.
If you buy a pet dog or cat, it’s important that you make checks to help combat the illegal trade in pet animals.
Information to help you answer your query before you contact us.
Operating principles for commissioners and providers of night shelters for people experiencing rough sleeping.
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