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Move, fly or bring home a pet, with every rule and cost worked out

Free tools and plain-English guides for the big decisions: flying or relocating with a dog or cat, and owning an exotic or small pet. Every rule is checked against the airline or government source, with the date we checked it.

Moving or flying with a pet

Airline rules, entry requirements, paperwork deadlines and real costs, for trips in the US and abroad.

Thinking about an exotic pet

Check the law in your state, what it will cost and how long it lives, before you commit.

Moving to Hawaii? One missed date can mean quarantine

The Hawaii Pet Move Kit turns the state’s rules into an 18-page printable plan: count-back dates, a one-page brief for your vet, the document checklist and the 14 mistakes that send pets to quarantine.

Exotic and small pets

All exotic pet guides →

Laws, costs and care for the pets most people know least about.

How we research

Official sources firstAirline policy pages, the CDC, USDA APHIS, state agencies and veterinary references. Every guide lists its sources.

Dated and re-checkedRules change. Each airline box and tool shows the date we last checked it, and we update pages when the rules move.

Plain EnglishWe turn regulations into steps, dates and costs, and flag what we couldn’t confirm.