The travel agent for pets!

Karen Jones offers some animal magic for travelling pets.

It’s a travel agent with a difference in fact, it’s for pets.

Pets on the Move can transport any animal across the globe, a godsend for people moving or travelling abroad who don’t want to leave their four or two legged friends behind.

The pet courier company, which caters for creatures great and small, is the brainchild of Karen Jones who, 15 years ago, quit her job as a hotel sales director to focus on what she loves most animals.

Karen, from Ayrshire, has countless pets, from cats and dogs to horses and rabbits. And in 1999, she decided to help look after other people’s by setting up her own boarding kennels and small pet hotel.

Two years later, she realised the demand in the UK for help importing and exporting pets and established Pets on the Move. The pet travel specialists take care of all the logistics of moving a pet from one country to another.

“It could be that the owners are emigrating to/from Scotland for a fresh start or coming or going for work for a few years and can’t bear to leave their pets behind,” Karen explains.

“Some people even take their dogs on a two or four-week holiday.”

Pets on the Move arranges everything from collection to delivery, from travel documents, pet passports and vet requirements to flights, air kennels and customs clearance.

To date, they’ve helped transport hundreds of pets, from cats, dogs and horses to rabbits, parrots and guinea pigs and everything inbetween.

Last year, Karen opened the first state-of-the-art animal reception centre at Glasgow Airport meaning pets can check in on-site and wait in comfort before boarding their flight.

Costs range from £400 to £5,000, depending on the animal and where it’s going to or coming from.

For more information, visit the website at petsonthemove.co.uk.