🇨🇦 Bringing pets to Canada
CFIA requires rabies vaccination certificate (English / French). Microchip not mandatory but recommended. No quarantine.
Preparation timeline
- Total preparation
- 1 months
- Rabies status
- rabies-controlled
- Microchip required
- Recommended
- Rabies vaccination
- Yes
- Antibody titre test
- Not required
- Wait after titre / vaccination
- 30 days
- Post-entry quarantine
- None if paperwork correct
Authority + permit
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
https://inspection.canada.ca/importing-food-plants-or-animals/pets/eng/ →
Species covered
dog, cat
Last verified 2026-04-28.