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Location: Washington | Who's done this before?!?! Give me the run down!
Also suggestions on hauling for hire/not for hire. Husband will be hauling horse to new home.
We have passport and vet work and brand inspection all scheduled/taken care of. |
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  Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | well we sold one and had to have a state vet health certificate, coggins, brand inspection and bill of sale is what we sent them with. Horse was registered bay but he was more brown...we made sure everything mathced his reg papers saying bay. I have heard it is easier for a buyer to cross the boarder and get the horse across than for a shipper to go into Canada, but I am sure there are plenty that do it. |
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Location: Canada | The horse will need a bill of sale, the health and coggins papers to be imported into Canada. Depending on what province you are importing into you'll need you pay tax on the horse. If it is mare or stallion I believe it's just GST if it's a gelding you'll have to pay GST and PST (depending on if your province charges PST). You will likely be asked where you found the horse for sale and if there is a listing. If you bought it through word of mouth or other means make sure that the seller is available the day it's being imported in the event the border agent wants to verify the sale price. If you have all your ducks in a row it usually takes about 45 mins to an hour to get through customs depending on the import location.
You need to check the list of quarantine states (typically Florida, New Mexico, Texas and Colorado but that does change). The list will be on your health papers or you can call the border to find out. If you buy a horse from the quarantine state you'll need to place them somewhere for the quarantine period prior to importing into Canada. If you're hiring a shipper make sure they are NOT travelling or stopping in the quarantine states, or hauling a horse from those states, or your horse will have to be quarantined.
I have typically had the horse hauled up to a closer US town and gone down to get it. This way the importer is me and I'm not paying extra fees to import the horse into Canada.
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 Total Germophobe
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Location: Montana | Bill of sale, brand inspection, international health certificate and coggins, and I think that is all. Also, be sure to have lots of copies of each, in the event they want to keep a copy, that way you have a copy for yourself as well. I made sure the people I sold my horse to had 3 copies of everything, and everything went just fine! |
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| We live just south of Canada and my husband does a lot of international health certificates and brand inspections, and I agree with what everyone else is saying. International HC, negative coggins within the last 30 days (typically), brand inspection and bill of sale. Plus papers saying the transport company is allowed to be hauling the horse, etc. Make sure you have plenty of copies and cross your t’s and dot your i’s! I’ve seen them turn horses away for simple things, but I’ve also seen them not even look in the trailer. |
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| My friend up here in Canada does a twice weekly Vlog and she did a "random thoughts Thursday" on importing a horse to Canada. Here's the link, it might be worth the watch https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hnl43lKOrGk
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