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I'm Fiona Tankard, a British writer and animal lover and I've lived in Italy since 1994.

Catfood and Dogfood Vocabulary in Italian

You can buy many familiar brands of petfood in Italy from the supermarket although the brand name pronunciation may be different. Whiskas is weezkass for example! You’ll also find some rather oddly named pet products like Alan the dog food (my husband loved that!) or Clumpy the cat litter (bit too graphic thanks!) Some words are ‘false friends’ that is you […]

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Useful Links

  Here are a variety of useful links related to pets and also ex-pat living. I’ll be adding to this all the time. Please contact me to add any that you know of. ANIMAL CHARITIES and ORGANIZATIONS Great list of organizations and associations which help animals in Italy from Animali e Animali http://www.animalieanimali.it/entieassociazioni.asp Rome association

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Bringing Pets into Italy – the Pet Passport

  For bringing pets into Italy from the EU: ·        Each pet cat, dog or ferret must have its own EU pet passport ·        The animal must be over three months old ·        It must have been vaccinated against rabies at least 21 days before travel ·        Each pet should be microchipped ·        Generally you

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