Quarantine isn't a yes or no badge on a destination. Where a country needs it, the facility, the length, the booking and the papers all belong in the file before he flies.
Route by route
- Singapore
- At least 30 days at the Animal Quarantine Centre, booked in advance, and a rabies vaccine again on arrival.
- Malaysia
- A MAQIS quarantine booking number goes on the import permit application, so the place comes first.
- Australia
- Post-entry quarantine near Melbourne, at least 10 days if the identity check came before the blood test, at least 30 if not.
- New Zealand
- At least 10 days on arrival, booked ahead.
- Hong Kong
- The Special Permit terms for India's group decide whether a government quarantine place is needed.
- South Africa
- The live import permit decides whether it's quarantine, further control or neither.
- United States
- For a dog, a booked place at a CDC-registered facility at the arrival airport. Without a valid titre, that booking includes 28 days of quarantine.
Where he'd actually be
At an approved facility we arrange and stay in touch with, not wherever has a kennel free. The same team that planned the departure runs the file through it, which matters most here, because this is the stretch where you're in the country and he isn't yet.
Read on NParks AVS, MAQIS, DAFF, MPI, AFCD, the South African Government and the US CDC between 31 August and 1 September 2026, and checked again for each move.