Our Services
Explore our comprehensive pet relocation services, covering every step from your front door to your pet’s new home. Pet Travel Advisors is an insured pet transportation service with an IATA Live Animals Regulations certified team: one coordinator owns your move end to end, choosing vetted airline live animal programs, the right routing for your pet’s breed and the season, and the exact paperwork your destination requires. Export health certificates are prepared by accredited veterinarians and endorsed by the CFIA on the correct timeline.
We move dogs, cats, birds, and exotic pets for families relocating for work, Canadian Armed Forces households on posting, breeders placing puppies and kittens with new owners, and companies moving employees. Routes cover every province and more than 30 international destinations. Every move is planned around the same priorities: your pet’s safety, exact compliance, and clear communication at every step. The services below can be combined into a full door to door move or booked for just the part you need.
Explore our regional coverage: British Columbia, the Prairies, Ontario, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada. Browsing first? Our pet relocation FAQ answers the questions Canadian owners ask most.
Popular international routes: the USA, the UK, Australia, Germany, the UAE, and Japan, or browse all destination guides.
Dogs, Cats and Birds
We move dogs, cats, birds and small exotic pets, and the three are genuinely different jobs rather than one service with the animal swapped out. A dog is routed and priced by its crate, so breed and size decide the route before anything else does, and out of a smaller Canadian airport the crate can decide whether the first leg is a flight or a drive at all. A cat usually fits in the cabin, which makes a cat move the cheapest and simplest of the three. A bird or a reptile turns on whether the species is permitted to travel, which is a permit question long before it is a booking question.
Each animal has its own airline restrictions, its own container rules and its own realistic routes, so start with the guide for yours rather than a general one. What does not change is how we run it: one coordinator, collection from your home, the CFIA endorsement appointment booked against the flight rather than the move date, and delivery to the new address at the other end.
Dog Transport
In the cabin, as checked baggage, as manifested cargo, or door to door by road. Breed and size decide the route before anything else does, because the IATA crate your dog needs is what sets which aircraft can carry it, and a large container will not fit the regional jets serving many Canadian airports. Domestic and international dog relocation, handled end to end. See our dog transport services.
Cat Transport
Most cats stay under the roughly 10 kg cabin limit for their whole adult life, which makes a cat move the cheapest and simplest version of this. We handle the carrier, the cabin slot the airline will not sell you online, the CFIA export certificate and both ends of the journey, across Canada and abroad. Multi-cat moves and rabies-free destinations are where it gets complicated. See our cat transport services.
Birds and Exotic Pets
Parrots and other birds, plus reptiles and small mammals, wherever airline and destination rules allow. These moves begin with an eligibility check rather than a quote, because CITES and the destination country's own import rules can disagree with each other, and the honest answer is sometimes no. Permits before tickets, always. Ask us and we will tell you whether your species and destination work together.
Booking the Right Flight
Most delays in pet travel start with the wrong flight. We choose routings that keep time in transit short and connections safe. Where a route offers a choice between a cheaper connection and a shorter journey, we tell you plainly which one we would choose for our own dog.
Domestic Flight Arrangements
We book cargo space for your pet on flights within Canada and to the United States, choosing routings that avoid tight connections and the cold-weather embargoes out of Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, Regina and Saskatoon that can close a route for days. You see the flight plan before anything is confirmed. See how a move across Canada works.
International Pet Relocation
We plan and book the full move abroad: the import permit, any rabies titre testing, the destination health certificate and its CFIA endorsement, the airline and routing out of a Canadian gateway, customs clearance on arrival and delivery at the other end. See our international pet shipping service.
Paperwork and Compliance
Every destination has its own entry rules, and most refusals at the airport are paperwork problems. This is the part we watch most closely. You will always know what has been filed and what comes next. For moves from Canada to the US the paperwork is lighter, and we will tell you when a simple road trip beats a flight.
Veterinary & Travel Document Verification
We check your pet’s rabies certificate, microchip record, and vet paperwork against the destination’s requirements before anything is submitted, so problems surface weeks early instead of at check-in.
Government Health Certificate Approval
We prepare the health certificate with your vet and manage the CFIA endorsement so it is signed and stamped inside the validity window for your flight.
Issuing Travel Permits
Some destinations require an import permit before your pet can fly. We apply for it, track it, and time the flight around it.
Travel Day, Door to Airport
On the day itself you have enough to think about. We handle the pet. Print our free travel checklist to see every step in order.
Pet Pickup from the Residence
We collect your pet from your home at the agreed time, with the crate prepared and labelled in advance.
Travel Crate Preparation
We size and supply an airline-approved crate, fit it with bedding and water bowls, and build in time for your pet to get used to it before the flight.
Airport Delivery
We drive your pet to the cargo terminal, timed to the airline’s acceptance window so there is no long wait before boarding.
Airline Check-In Assistance
We handle the cargo check-in: documents, crate inspection, and airline fees, and we stay until your pet is accepted for the flight.
Arrival and the Last Mile
The move is not over when the plane lands. We stay on it until your pet is home. If a flight is delayed or a connection changes, we rework the plan and tell you before you need to ask.
Customs Clearance Support
We coordinate customs and border clearance at the destination airport, working with local agents where the country requires one.
Airport Meet and Greet
Your pet is met at the destination airport, checked over, and given water and a break where facilities allow.
Delivery to the Final Destination
We drive your pet from the airport to the new home, whether that is across town or a connecting leg away.
Regular Travel Updates
You hear from us at every milestone: pickup, check-in, departure, landing, and delivery.
Pet Tracking Information
You get the airline’s tracking reference for the flight, so you can follow the journey yourself instead of waiting by the phone.
How a Move Comes Together
Every move follows the same backbone, whatever the destination. Here is what working with us looks like from first call to delivery day.
1. Tell Us About Your Pet
Start with the quote form or a phone call. We ask about breed, age, size, and health, plus where you are moving from and to and when. Snub nosed breeds and very large dogs change the flight options, so we ask early. A quote costs nothing.
2. Get Your Route and Quote
We come back with the routing we recommend, what the paperwork involves for your destination, and a written quote for the full move including our coordination.
3. Paperwork and Preparation
Depending on the destination this stage runs from a few weeks to several months. Vaccinations, titre tests where required, crate practice at home, and the health certificate timed to your flight. For Australia and New Zealand the titre wait alone sets the timeline, so starting early matters more than anything else.
4. Travel Day
We collect your pet, deliver them to the cargo terminal, and handle check-in. You get confirmation when your pet is accepted and again at departure.
5. Arrival and Delivery
Customs clearance, a check and water at the destination airport, then the drive to the new home. The move ends at your door, not at the airport.
Ready to start? Request a quote and we will map your pet’s move end to end.
Service Areas
Ontario (ON)
British Columbia (BC)
Saskatchewan (SK)
Quebec (QC)
Alberta (AB)
Manitoba (MB)
Nova Scotia (NS)
USA
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