Can you take a stray dog home from Greece?

If you've come on vacation to Greece and fallen head over heels in love with a stray, you will need to take it to a local vet for a comprehensive medical check, vaccinations, and, most importantly, a pet passport, if you want to take it home with you.



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In many Greek cities, walking one block without seeing a stray cat or a dog is impossible. Whether a person is eating, walking, driving, or even at the beach, you are almost guaranteed to find at least one stray animal.

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GREECE ALONE IS ESTIMATED TO HAVE almost 3 million stray and homeless dogs and cats, in a country with 11 million inhabitants. This is HUGE!. Stray pets are a man-made problem. Every stray pet was once someone's pet, or the puppy or kitten of someone's pet that was abandoned.

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Through their brainchild, the “Zero Stray Pawject,” they committed to creating a cruelty-free, sustainable project on the Greek island of Aegina which would reduce the number of stray dogs to manageable levels.

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Ctenocephalides felis was found on 97.4% of the cats and 40.3% of the dogs surveyed. Of the other flea species, with much lower prevalence, Pulex irritans (0.8%) and Xenopsylla cheopis (0.8%) were observed only on the dogs.

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Everywhere you go in Greece, you see dogs roaming about. They're usually large, well fed and quite friendly. Some of them wear collars too.

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