Boats, ducks and passports

Sy-Revolution

Sy-Revolution

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Hi Folks,
Two weeks ago we bought a duckling from a local market (Portugal) for our son, as a pet, strictly no eating. Please don't ask why, already we're aware that it's not our wisest move to date as we're cleaning up poo every 10 minutes.

It's very cute though, for now. This week we went back to the same market and saw what it's going to grow into and that's about turkey size!

Ok I'm off the point, a fellow liveaboard here has told us that we'll need a pet passport for it when we move on. We'll be heading to Greece via Balerics, Sardinia, Sicily and Italy once the weather breaks. I thought pet passports were a British invention driven by rabies phobia. So is it true, will we need a pet passport for a duck or could we say it's just flown in?

Any ideas?

Cheers,

Crispin
 
How could ya be scared of this little cutey?

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nice idea, but from the duck's POV it might be better if it were in a group. They are social animals.

You might also consider the contents of the poo:

Round worms
Coccidiosis
Mycotoxicosis
Salmonella

and loads of other zoonotic diseases.



Depends how much you value human life, I suppose.
 
This is from www.animalpassports.co.uk/bird-reptile-pet-passport.htm

My pet parrot, Google, told me about it.
It's written from a UK perspective but appears to be based on EU regulations. It seems your duck may be "live poultry."

"Pet birds are considered to be all species of birds (except poultry as detailed below) which are accompanying their owners, or a person responsible for such animals on behalf of the owner during their movement, and which are not intended to be sold or transferred to another owner.
Poultry is defined in Council Directives 90/539/EEC (as amended) as fowl, turkeys, guinea fowl, ducks, geese, quails, pigeons (not racing pigeons), partridges and ratites. These species are not permitted to be imported as “pet birds” but must instead meet the requirements laid down in Community law for imports of live poultry.

If you are bringing five or fewer pet birds into the UK from EU member states, Andorra, Croatia, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Norway, San Marino, Switzerland or the Vatican City State they do not need to be accompanied by a licence, serve home quarantine upon arrival or have any inspection visits by a Local Veterinary Inspector (LVI).

If you are bringing your pet bird from a country other than one listed above, it must be accompanied by a "Family Pet Bird Import Licence", which is issued by Reading Animal Health Divisional Office (telephone 0118 959 6695)."
 
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A few years ago, about 5, we met a German couple who were canoeing round Europe.http://www.ulm-outdoor.de/showpage.php?SiteID=179
We met them in Portugal. They had a duck who traveled from Italy with them. She perched on the bow of one or other of the canoes!

They were stopped in Gibraltar after they made a late night arrival in the submarine pens(another story) and were told the duck had to go! Quick thinking pair they threw her in the air and off she flew on a circuit of the bay before landing back on the canoe! They claimed she was wild and were allowed to continue on....

Mind you if yours grows to the size of a turkey there is not much hope of it flying..


nb some three years later they actually finished the circumnavigation...
www.gerryantics.blogspot.com
 
Hi Crispin

You're not alone. A Cruising Friend of us bought a Duck last spring.
He thought it was male and called it Basar (that's where they bought it).

They have no Papers at all for Basar and they never had any troubles so far.

We already had a lot of Fun with the duck although they fond out that it's a female after all :-)

If you look at our website you'll find Pictures of the Duck in the latest Logbook entry and in the Kemer Party-Movie.

http://www.ti-punch.ch

Fair winds
Wolfgang
 
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