I thought I would give a heads up to any of our UK members who use the Pet Passport Scheme. Sandy recently had his latest vaccination against rabies and instead of the usual circular OV stamp our veterinarian used his own practice stamp and simply wrote down his SP number.
Queried this and was informed that was the new procedure.
Decided to double check with the Animal and Plant Health Agency and really glad I did, it transpires that the circular OV stamp must be used on all old passports. The veterinarians practice stamp and hand written SP number is only for the new passports. Certain you can imagine the chaos had we turned up at passport control with an incorrect passport 🙁
If anyone would like an image of the correct and incorrect stamp just drop me a pm, I don't want to name and shame our veterinarian on open forum.