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ekNYONE who has passed through a port this year vvill lave seen the anti rabies poster — La Rage. They warn igainst importing animals arid emphasise the penalties for 3reaking the law Yet, it still happens.
A Spanish lorry driver arrived at Dover last week with is pet dog and thought that was in order because it had a vaccination certificate! It enjoyed the hospitality of Townsend Thoresen's anti-rabies compound British drivers tempted to take Butch or Fido on a cross-Channel holiday should be warned: getting the canine creature back home will be difficult and expensive. There is always the danger of the stowaway; then, the penalty is the same.
Take the case of the driver who came home from Turkey, the other day, with a stowaway cat. How pussy managed to survive from Ankara to Dover. I'll never know. But survive it did, only to be served the equivalent of a deportation order — and the driver got it in the neck, too