IMPORTANT UPDATE ON HORSE PASSPORTS

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I am sure you are aware that all horses have required a passport since February 2005. The current law has been seen by many as lacking teeth but this is expected to change next month.

* You are not probably aware that new legislation will come into force in the UK from the 1st July 2009 requiring all animals that need a passport after that date to be microchipped and the application form must be signed by a vet. If your horse already has a passport the law does not require that they are microchipped.

* Horses will automatically be signed out of the food chain when the passport is issued unless they are registered as foals.

* Livery yard/land owners will be liable to heavy fines if they have horses kept on their premises without passports from 1st July 2009

* Veterinary Surgeons will now be required by law to check a horses' passport before treating it with most medicines

If you have any horses, ponies or donkeys that have yet to get a passport we would strongly advise that you apply before 30th June 2009.

For further details

http://www.horsepassportagency.co.uk

PO Box 6578
Derby, DE74 2ZW

+44 (0) 870 241 8263




Regards

Horse Passport Team
http://www.horsepassportagency.org
 
I appreciate that the advice is meant in good spirit but adding contact details for ONE particular PIO out of the many available smacks of advertising.
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I appreciate that the advice is meant in good spirit but adding contact details for ONE particular PIO out of the many available smacks of advertising.
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Smacks? Pretty blatent if you ask me...
 
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I appreciate that the advice is meant in good spirit but adding contact details for ONE particular PIO out of the many available smacks of advertising.
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Smacks? Pretty blatent if you ask me...

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Also as the HPA have seemed to be the most unreliable when changing ownership details (see thread the other day about a loanee changing details without owner permission and HPA denying all help to owner. That's very scary!)

How about advertising.
The SHBGB for anything over 14.2. The BHS or Weatherbys. All three do general ID passports and are far more reputable than some others.

I'm sure there must be other reliable and reputable ones, but personally, for me, HPA ones are not worth the paper they are written on, sorry; they have far too many loopholes for a secure system IMO.
 
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I appreciate that the advice is meant in good spirit but adding contact details for ONE particular PIO out of the many available smacks of advertising.
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Oh good lord get a life! It is meant to be informative advice you daft so and so!
 
And if you don't want foreign bodies implanted into your foal what do you do? Seriously I keep my horse's organic and vegan, it would damage her chi if I had to get her micro chipped
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