Taking pets to Mexico
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If you are traveling with your pet
During your entrance into Mexico...
You must contact the official personnel of the SENASICA to obtain an Import Certificate for your pet, for such purpose, the official will carry out a physical and documentary inspection to verify the compliance of the following requirements:
- Submit a Good Health Certificate with a maximum validity of 15 days after being issued in original and simple copy including the following elements:
- Issued by an official veterinary physician from the competent authority or, if private, in letterheaded paper, with the professional license number printed or its photocopy (or its equivalent).
- Name and address of the exporter (in the country of origin or provenance) and the importer (destination address in Mexico).
- Rabies vaccine application date and its validity (animals under 3 months old are exempt).
- That during the inspection before your trip, the animal or animals were found clinically healthy.
- That the animal or animals have been internally and externally dewormed, within the six previous months and are free of ectoparasites.
- If you don’t meet the foregoing, you must contact a Veterinary Physician (of your choice and on your own in Mexico), who will issue a health certificate and apply the corresponding treatment.
- Your pet must enter in a carrier or container, clean with no bed, no implements or accessories (toys, candy, prizes or other objects, prepared with ruminant origin ingredients), otherwise, these will be removed and destroyed. The carrier of container will receive a preventive spray treatment by the official personnel of the SADER-SENASICA; its collar and leash can enter.
- You may enter the bulk balanced food portion for the day. We remind you that in Mexico you can find this type of food Registered and Authorized by the SADER-SENASICA.
- If you send your pet as documented cargo, verify the requirements of the airline of your choice and consider the need of using the services of a customs agent for its release in Customs.
IF YOU TRAVEL FROM THE UNITED STATES OR CANADA
You must contact the Senasica official or assistant personnel who will carry out a brief physical inspection of your pet in order to verify:
That it does not have signs of infectious and contagious diseases.
That it does not have fresh or healing wounds.
That it is free of ectoparasites. If during the physical inspection ectoparasites are found, you must contact a veterinary physician of your choice and on your own so that he/she applies an effective treatment.
If ticks are detected, the personnel will take a sample for its diagnosis in the official laboratory. Also verify that all the specimens found on your pet are removed.
The Office of Agriculture and Livestock Health Inspection (OISA) will keep your pet until the laboratory result is obtained in order to rule out the presence of exotic specimens for Mexico or under Campaign.
If it does not represent a risk, the SENASICA, through the Secretariat of Animal Health shall determine the measures that must be applied. The expenses generated as a result will be at your expense.
** If you wish to enter into Mexico with an animal, other than a dog or cat, you must meet the provisions of the Import Zoosanitary Requirements in the Consultation Module