Pet Shipping from Canada to Vietnam

Not for up to two animals arriving with their owner: Vietnamese quarantine rules set no holding period for them. They provide for an inspection at the border gate, where the officer reads the certificate you carry from Canada, examines the animal and, only where it is needed, vaccinates it or takes samples. After that inspection, the gate agency issues the import quarantine certificate.

Vietnam is not among the countries the CFIA has negotiated a specific export certificate for, and the CFIA lets its Canadian International Health Certificate stand in where a country prescribes no format and its import requirements can be met. A veterinarian licensed in Canada completes it and an official CFIA veterinarian endorses it. That endorsement is by appointment, the fee is worked out by a CFIA officer and paid online at least three days beforehand, it is not refundable, and it has to be done while your pet is still in the country. Book the slot before you book anything else.

Yes. Vietnam’s quarantine circular lets one traveller bring two through the border gate procedure, for keeping as pets, for household life, or for travelling with. A third animal is registered with the Department of Livestock Production and Animal Health before arrival, and that is a conversation worth having while flight dates are still open.

Not for up to two animals. Where an owner arrives with them, the circular has the owner register the import quarantine with the agency at the border gate on the day. Plenty of pet shipping pages describe a ministry application weeks ahead, which is not what the regulation says for those animals; a third is registered with the ministry’s department before arrival. Sending an animal ahead as cargo is a separate procedure, so we settle which one applies to you first.

No. Article 14 of Vietnam’s Circular 01/2026, read 29 October 2026, names no titre test for an animal arriving with its traveller, and the CFIA’s certificate records the rabies vaccination with the date it is valid until.

Vancouver (YVR) and Toronto Pearson (YYZ) carry most of this traffic, and there is no non-stop service to Vietnam from either, so your pet will change aircraft at least once. The connecting airport is worth as much attention as the departure one, since that is where an animal spends the longest stretch on the ground. We choose the routing on handling quality and temperature at both ends, not on price alone.

The official costs are modest by the standards of this work: the CFIA endorsement fee, calculated by an officer and paid before the appointment, and your veterinarian’s charges for the examination, the microchip check and any vaccination. Nothing goes to a laboratory before departure, and Vietnam needs no advance permit when an owner brings one or two animals. What the budget really turns on is the flight and the crate. Our Canadian cost breakdown takes it apart line by line.

We count the animals, secure the CFIA endorsement slot, and build the veterinary appointment and the flight around that date. Your coordinator prepares the Canadian International Health Certificate for endorsement, checks it the way a Vietnamese quarantine officer will read it, arranges an IATA compliant crate, picks a routing whose connection handles animals properly, and tells you exactly how the border gate registration goes. One person owns the file throughout.