Animiyo guides

Documents and paperwork

Administrative procedures for animals have specific deadlines and offices. These guides point to the forms, the timing, and what to do when something does not add up.

12 guides

Open the guideBeginner15 min
Registering your cat in the pet identification register
Pet registers were built for dogs, but more and more regions extend them to cats. Here is how to proceed, what to prepare and what to keep on file.
Cat
Open the guideBeginner20 min
Handle the paperwork for an animal you found
Finding an animal does not mean you may keep it. Here are the correct practical and administrative steps, from reading the microchip to reporting to the authorities.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner20 min
Preparing a care authorisation for your animal while you are away
When someone else looks after your animal, a written authorisation with data and contacts prevents misunderstandings and saves precious time in an emergency.
DogCatAll species
Open the guideBeginner20 min
Update the pet registry details after moving house
A microchip is worthless if the linked number no longer answers. Here is how to update your address and contacts in the registry after a move, step by step.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner60 min
Filing and finding your pet's health records
An archive is only useful if it hands you the right document while you are on the phone with the clinic. Categories, file names, which originals to keep and how to rebuild a broken history.
DogCat
Open the guideIntermediate90 min
Moving abroad permanently with a pet
A relocation is not a holiday with the dog in the car. What genuinely changes when your residence moves, with a backward calendar and the documents that must never go into a shipping container.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner40 min
Reporting a lost pet in Italy: the first hours
The right sequence between searching on site, reporting to the health authority and publishing notices, with the channels to open in the first two hours.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner20 min
Removing a pet from the animal register after death
The method for reporting a death to the animal register and closing the microchip record, with the useful documents and the references to verify.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner45 min
Changing the registered owner of a dog or cat
The microchip stays the same, the name beside it does not. An eight step procedure to register the transfer, hand over the records and verify the outcome.
DogCat
Open the guideIntermediate40 min
Claiming veterinary costs on your Italian tax return
A routine for gathering invoices, receipts and proof of payment through the year, working out which costs qualify, and reaching the tax return without chasing paperwork.
All species
Open the guideBeginner30 min
Microchip and registry: registering a dog in Italy
The Italian procedure step by step, with the deadlines regions typically apply, the updates you must file and how to check the record really exists.
DogCat
Open the guideBeginner45 min
European pet passport: how to get one and how long it takes
Microchip before the vaccine, a twenty one day wait and the checks that get you turned away at the gate: the Italian procedure in chronological order.
DogCat