Pet care in France

[coogan]

Advice please- we are moving to North East France and would like to set up a livery stables, cattery and boarding kennels. Do we need licences, qualifications, etc.

[Russethouse]

Pretty sure there are some previous posts on this - it may be worth doing some searches under the seperate parts of your question, Kennels, cattery, livery etc.

The name of member Penny29 comes to mind as I believe she looked into starting a cattery.

[Penny29]

Yes it was me!

Can't find the long, explanatory posting I wrote as it was at least 12 - 18 months ago but here are the sites I used to find out about qualifications and regulations etc. There are strict regs about how near to another house you should be etc. However, like most things in France I know a fair few people who have set up, advertise, charge & basically ignore all the rules so I guess you can take your chances & risk paying the price afterwards!!!!!!

http://perso.club-internet.fr/denac/Denac/CertificatCapacite-01.htm

http://www.cyno.org/

http://www.sfcyno.org/faq-sfc-6-La.html+loi+les+chiens+et+vous#62

If you do a serch under  my name you may come up with the long detailed posting which I MAY have popped on the "pets"  forum at the time.

 

[Deimos]

The thread you probably want is http://www.completefrance.com/cs/forums/569671/ShowPost.aspx

Ian

[Opalienne]

Where are you moving to?   Round where we live (between Calais and Boulogne) there is a real dearth of good boarding kennels for dogs.   We've found good ones for cats and horses, but all the dog places we looked at were really depressing.   We ended up advertising for a private individual and found someone excellent, but I am sure there would be a market for a kennel which looked a bit less like the SPA......