Guidance

Rabies quarantine: authorised premises and carriers

Updated 16 February 2024

If you need to put your cat or dog into quarantine when it enters England, Scotland or Wales, you must use one of these:

  • authorised quarantine premises
  • authorised quarantine transporters (known as ‘carriers’) to transport it to the quarantine premises

Read our guidance on putting your pet in rabies quarantine.

For Dogs Trust Kennels, email: ukraine@dogstrust.org.uk

Berkshire

Animal Air Care

Transports:

  • dogs, cats and small mammals between 250g to 50kg
  • carnivora up to 500kg

Not approved to quarantine animals.

Animal Air Care
Unit 579
Sandringham Road
TW6 3SF

Telephone: 07399 226 868
Email : jake@animalaircare.co.uk

Ryslip Quarantine Kennels

Quarantines cats and dogs.

Transports cats, dogs and other mammals up to 10kg.

Church Lane
Binfield
Bracknell
RG42 5NL

Telephone: 01344 424 144
Email: info@ryslip.com
Website: www.ryslip.com

JCS Livestock

Transports cats, dogs and other mammals, including primates, between 250g and 400kg.

Not approved to quarantine animals.

Unit 4 Heathrow Logistics Park
Bedfont Road
Bedfont
Middlesex
TW14 8EE

Telephone: 01753 682 244
Email: phil@jcslivestock.com
Website: www.jamescargo.com

Derbyshire

Calagran Four Paws Hotel

Quarantines dogs up to 50kg

Transports dogs and cats.

Deep Sic Lane
Arkwright Town
Chesterfield
Derbyshire
S44 5DN

Telephone: 01246 211 281
Email: contact@cfourpawshotel.co.uk
Website: www.cfourpawshotel.co.uk

Devon and Cornwall

Cornwall Council

Transports cats and dogs.

Not approved to quarantine animals.

New County Hall
Treyew Road
Truro
TR1 3AY

Telephone: 01209 616 990
Email: communityandenvironmentalprotection@cornwall.gov.uk

Essex and London

London and Essex Kents Farm Kennels and Catteries

Quarantines cats, dogs (up to 50kg) and small mammals (up to 5kg).

Transports cats, dogs, and small mammals (500g to 50kg).

Kents Farm
Kents Lane
North Weald
CM16 6AX

Telephone: 01992 522 183
Email: kris@lekf.co.uk
Website: www.lekf.co.uk

Airpets Ltd

Quarantines cats, dogs and other small mammals up to 50kg.

Transports cats, dogs, rodents, lagomorphs, marsupials, eulipotyphla and other mammals over 250g. Transports carnivores and primates up to 900kg.

Willowslea Kennels
Spout Lane North
Stanwell
Staines
Middlesex
TW19 6BW

Telephone: 01753 685 571
Email: info@airpets.com
Website: www.airpets.com

Ventura Wildlife Services

Transports cats, dogs and other mammals (including primates) from 250g to 1,000kg.

Not approved to quarantine animals.

Unit 32 – Hoddesdon Industrial Centre
Pindar Road
Hoddesdon
Hertfordshire
EN11 0FF

Telephone: 020 3371 8764
Email: info@venturawildlifeservices.com
Website: www.venturawildlifeservices.com

Hampshire

Eyersdown Quarantine Kennels

Quarantines cats, chinchillas, dogs (up to 50kg), guinea pigs and rabbits.

Transports cats, chinchillas, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits and other small mammals (excluding primates) between 450g to 7kg.

Burridge
Southampton
SO31 1ZJ

Telephone: 01489 573 151
Email: eyersdown@mail.com
Website: www.eyersdown.com

Kent

The Animal Inn

Quarantines cats and dogs (up to 50kg) plus rodents and rabbits (250g to 20kg).

Transports dogs and cats between 250g and 50kg.

Dover Road
Ringwould
Deal
CT14 8HH

Telephone: 01304 373 597
Email: mark@kennelsuk.co.uk
Website: www.animalinnkent.co.uk

Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire County Council

Transports cats, dogs and other mammals (excluding primates) from 30g to 40kg.

Not approved to quarantine animals.

Trading Standards Service
Graham Hill House
Electric Avenue
Ferry Hinksey Road
Oxford
OX2 0BY

Telephone: 0845 051 0845

Surrey

Animal Couriers Ltd

Transports cats, dogs, lagomorphs for example rabbits, and mustelidae for example ferrets, from 1kg to 50kg.

Not approved to quarantine animals.

Animal Couriers Ltd
202 Godstone Road
CR3 6RD

Telephone: 01483 200 123

Scotland

Aquithie Boarding and Quarantine Kennels and Cattery

Quarantines cats, dogs (up to 50kg), rabbits and small rodents.

Transports cats, dogs and rabbits between 250g and 50kg.

Kemnay
Inverurie
Aberdeenshire
AG51 5PA

Telephone: 01467 643 456
Email: su@aquithie.co.uk
Website: www.aquithie.com

Wales

Wales Ape and Monkey Rescue Sanctuary

Transports cats, dogs and other mammals (including primates) from 250g to 500kg.

Not approved to quarantine animals.

Caehopkin Road
Abercrave
Swansea Valley
SA19 1UD

Telephone: 01639 730 276
Email: info@ape-monkey-rescue.org.uk
Website: www.ape-monkey-rescue.org.uk

Channel Islands

Guernsey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Transports cats and dogs.

Not approved to quarantine animals.

Les Fiers Mouton
St Andrews
Guernsey

Telephone: 01481 257 261
Email: admin@gspca.org.gg
Website: www.gspca.org.gg