meekdrill
New Member
Hello everyone !
I was hoping some of you could help me deal with this situation that is stressing me out lately.
I'm from Canada, but currently living in California and I bought a Russian Tortoise about 5 years ago here. I'm currently in the process of returning to Canada and thought all I needed was the CIFA Import Permit to bring him with me... Apparently you need more than this ?
I was planning of bringing him with me on my trip from California to Quebec ( about 5 days ) and now I'm glad I didn't ! My uncle ( who owns many reptiles and often ships some from within Canada ) told me that the trip would stress him and is too long... and said I should ship him using reptile express.
Now I feel a bit worried to ship my little guy. Apparently they deal with all the export/import and inspection paper.
Any of you ever shipped a Russian Tortoise ( CITES II ) from USA to Canada ? Is it safe ?
I'm also worried because on reptile express they say it may take 2-3 months for the permits to be accepted... that mean we would be close to January, which is really cold in Canada.
Any information would be immensely appreciated as this is one of my biggest worry about this whole trip. I really don't want to lose him
Thanks in advance
I was hoping some of you could help me deal with this situation that is stressing me out lately.
I'm from Canada, but currently living in California and I bought a Russian Tortoise about 5 years ago here. I'm currently in the process of returning to Canada and thought all I needed was the CIFA Import Permit to bring him with me... Apparently you need more than this ?
I was planning of bringing him with me on my trip from California to Quebec ( about 5 days ) and now I'm glad I didn't ! My uncle ( who owns many reptiles and often ships some from within Canada ) told me that the trip would stress him and is too long... and said I should ship him using reptile express.
Now I feel a bit worried to ship my little guy. Apparently they deal with all the export/import and inspection paper.
Any of you ever shipped a Russian Tortoise ( CITES II ) from USA to Canada ? Is it safe ?
I'm also worried because on reptile express they say it may take 2-3 months for the permits to be accepted... that mean we would be close to January, which is really cold in Canada.
Any information would be immensely appreciated as this is one of my biggest worry about this whole trip. I really don't want to lose him
Thanks in advance