Rabies quarantine: authorised premises and carriers
Updated 8 May 2025
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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.
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 (up to 50kg).
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: office@cfourpaws.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
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
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