The ingenuity of crooks is often a source of wonder. Who would have thought that the simple business of taking your pet on holiday would give rise to major fraud and considerable cruelty?

Agromenes remembers when first we were able to travel with our pet dogs and cats. Before, pets had to be put into into quarantine for six months, which meant that only about 8,000 dogs and cats passed through British ports each year. The coming of effective vaccines and later of pet passports meant that the UK could maintain its rabies-free state and allow people to travel with their pets without any need for quarantine. We jumped at the opportunity and, last year, not 8,000, but 368,000 pets were moved in and out of the country.

These numbers remained high even when Brexit meant pet passports could no

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