South America

Guyana

Import permit neededRabies vaccine neededRabies titer test neededVet certificate neededQuarantine of 3 months

Before you sail

Import permit — apply at least 3 days before arrival
Rabies vaccine between 1 year and 30 days before arrival
Rabies titer test
Veterinary health certificate, endorsed by the exporting country's veterinary authority
Parasite treatment — internal and external
Quarantine of 3 months
Dogs vaccinated against: Canine Distemper, Hepatitis, Leptospirosis, Parainfluenza, Parvovirus
Cats vaccinated against: Feline Calicivirus, Feline Panleukopenia, Feline Rhinotracheitis
Dogs at least 4 months old

Not documented Microchip

Fees

Permit

G$20,000 per animal for imports. The Consulate General of Guyana in New York publishes this as advice received from GLDA; the figure appears in no GLDA or Ministry document this file could read. The same page gives G$5,000 per animal for exports, which matters if you intend to sail on with the animal.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[6]

No other charge is published anywhere — no inspection fee, no veterinary attendance fee, no overtime rate for a weekend or after-hours arrival, and no quarantine tariff. Those silences are gaps in the record, not evidence that entry is otherwise free.^[1,2,3,4]

The consular figures are quoted in Guyana dollars only. No US-dollar equivalent is given, and no payment method, account or point of payment is named — so the amount is known but how and where to pay it is not.^[6]

Timeline

1 year – 30 days before arrivalRabies vaccine given in this window
4 weeks before arrivalHave the US rabies certification form endorsed before you sailGetting home again — a rule of where you sail from, not Guyana's (Leaving from the United States) · See it on the departure countdown
ONLY NEEDED IF your route touches a country CDC treats as high risk for dog rabies — and it cannot be arranged once you have left. CDC readmits a US-vaccinated dog from a high-risk country on a Certification of U.S.-issued Rabies Vaccination form, and "The form must be submitted to USDA and endorsed BEFORE the dog leaves the United States". "USDA endorsement of the form may take several weeks", so this is the step to start first. WITHOUT IT, YOUR DOG CANNOT COME HOME ON THE BOAT. It falls under the rules for foreign-vaccinated dogs from a high-risk country, and those close every seaport: such a dog "Can only enter at a U.S. airport with a CDC-registered animal care facility where the dog has a reservation". Land borders are closed to it as well. The only sea exception is a qualifying service dog with a titer, travelling with the person it assists. The alternative CDC used to accept — a USDA-endorsed export health certificate — covers only certificates issued "no later than July 31, 2025", so it is closed to anyone arranging travel now. Eight destinations on this site are on CDC's high-risk list — Belize, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Suriname and Venezuela — and the Dominican Republic is the one most likely to catch an eastern-Caribbean itinerary. The Bahamas, Turks & Caicos and the BVI are not on it.
3 days before arrivalApply for the import permit
ArrivalPresent the permit and certificate; clear the animal before going ashore.

On arrival & aboard

At the dock: The Ministry's four-step procedure is about ISSUING A PERMIT and nothing else — application, determination, preparation, collection. It describes no inspection, no port of entry, no presentation of the animal and no formality on arrival. The only ARRIVAL POINT named by any official source is none at all; a commercial site names Cheddi Jagan International Airport at Timehri for air arrivals, together with the usual IATA crate expectations that go with air freight. NO OFFICIAL SOURCE DESCRIBES A SEA ARRIVAL, and none names a seaport for animals. The cruising press does name ports — Noonsite lists Bartica and Georgetown as ports of entry and also names Parika — and states plainly that "All animals must be declared", but it is secondary and it does not say to whom, where, or at what point in clearance. A yacht clearing in at Georgetown on the Demerara, or upriver at Bartica, deals with Customs, Immigration and the port authority; how the animal is presented to a veterinary officer within that process, or whether it is, remains unresolved. Step 4 of the Ministry procedure also requires the permit to be collected in person by the applicant or a written-authorised representative, which is a real problem for a boat with no agent ashore — and Bartica is a long way up the Essequibo from Georgetown, where the Ministry is.
By yacht: What applies while the boat lies in the river is the open question none of this answers: nothing found says what, if anything, binds the animal once it is cleared. Settle it with GLDA before arrival.

Quarantine

Required^[7,5]

Duration

90 days (SECONDARY, NOT OFFICIAL — AND THE MOST CONSEQUENTIAL FACT ON THIS PAGE. Two secondary sources describe it differently, and the difference decides passages. PetTravel makes it contingent: "At the time of permit application, it will be determined whether your dog or cat's country of origin is a high-rabies country and whether up to 90 days of quarantine will be required." Noonsite, writing for cruisers and updated March 2024, makes it the DEFAULT with a named escape list: "Animals will be quarantined for 90 days unless arriving from the following countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Dominica, Ireland, Jamaica, Montserrat, New Zealand, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, and the United Kingdom." Seven of those are jurisdictions in this dataset and they are the Eastern Caribbean chain a boat sails down — so on Noonsite's account a boat arriving from Saint Lucia or Barbados is exempt while one arriving from Trinidad, Suriname, French Guiana or the ABCs is not. Ninety days is longer than many cruising seasons, and on either account the decision is taken before departure rather than on arrival. No Guyanese government document this file could read mentions quarantine in Guyana in any form — both accounts are secondary, they do not agree, and neither list has been confirmed with GLDA. Recorded as required so that no reader plans a season assuming it will not happen.)^[7,5]

Where it is served

Not published. No facility, address, operator or standard is named in any source consulted, official or commercial.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,2,3,7]

What it costs, and who pays

Not published. No daily rate or bond is named. The commercial source states only that the importer bears all costs.confidence: Secondary. From a non-government source; treat as a lead, not gospel.^[7,1]

If your papers are not in order

The same commercial source says quarantine will not be imposed where the requirements are met, and lists countries it says Guyana generally treats as rabies-free — Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Dominica, the Republic of Ireland, Jamaica, Montserrat, New Zealand, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and the United Kingdom — adding that the list "can change without notice". That list is NOT published by Guyana anywhere this file could reach, it is not the same list as any other jurisdiction's in this dataset, and it must not be carried across to one. The same source also states what happens to a non-compliant animal: quarantine if facilities are available, return to the country of origin, or euthanasia, with the importer bearing all costs. Both halves are unverified and both are too serious to leave out. It also advises contacting GLDA to confirm space exists before travelling, which implies capacity is finite.confidence: Secondary. From a non-government source; treat as a lead, not gospel.^[7,5]

Open questions

High priority

HIGH PRIORITY — CONFIRM THE QUARANTINE EXEMPTION LIST WITH GLDA. Noonsite publishes a named list of countries whose animals escape the 90 days: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Barbados, Dominica, Ireland, Jamaica, Montserrat, New Zealand, St. Kitts-Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, and the United Kingdom. If that is current it is the most valuable fact on this page for a boat working down the island chain, since seven of those are jurisdictions in this dataset — and it equally means a boat arriving from Trinidad, Suriname, French Guiana or the ABCs is NOT exempt. But no Guyanese government document names any such list, and PetTravel describes the same 90 days as a case-by-case determination at the permit desk instead. Two secondary sources, two different mechanisms, no official confirmation of either. Get GLDA to state the rule in writing before planning a season around it.

Also open

HIGHEST PRIORITY — the 90-day quarantine has no official source in this file. Only a commercial pet-travel site states that a high-rabies-country assessment made at permit application can impose up to 90 days. No Ministry or GLDA document that could be read mentions quarantine in Guyana at all. Ask GLDA directly: is quarantine ever imposed, on what assessment, for how long, where, at what cost, and is the decision given in writing with the permit? Ninety days decided before departure is the difference between a season and a write-off, and it currently rests on an unofficial claim.
HIGHEST PRIORITY for a live-aboard animal — the six-month residence attestation. Both requirement sheets make the exporting Veterinary Authority certify the animal was born in that country and never left, or has been there the previous six months. A cruising animal cannot normally satisfy that in the port it clears out of. Ask GLDA how it applies to an animal resident aboard a yacht: is "the country" the port of departure, the vessel's flag state, or the owner's residence, and is there any documented alternative? There is no cure written into the sheets.
The 72-hour parasite window is official and reads as running to EXPORT rather than to arrival, which is the workable direction for a passage. Confirm that reading with GLDA, and confirm what "export" means for a yacht — the date of outbound clearance from the last country, or the date of departure. Ask also what happens when weather delays a boat past 72 hours: is re-treatment and a fresh certificate required, and will the exporting authority re-endorse?
The official rabies clause is CONDITIONAL — vaccination at least one month before export is required only "if rabies has occurred" among animals in the exporting country in the preceding six months. This file records rabies as required regardless. Confirm with GLDA that it is treated as a flat requirement in practice, and confirm whether an outer limit on vaccine age applies; the 12-month ceiling recorded here is secondary only, and no official document says whether a three-year vaccine is accepted on its own validity.
A rabies titer is recorded as required on a commercial source alone, with no threshold, no approved laboratory and no waiting period stated by anyone. Ask GLDA whether serology applies to your departure country, and if so what titre, which laboratory, and how long after the blood draw the animal may travel. An unquantified serology requirement can add months.
Two different contact addresses circulate. The official GLDA import permit application form gives gldaceo@agriculture.gov.gy and a fax number, 220-6557. Commercial write-ups give a Gmail address, glda1910@gmail.com, and telephone numbers that could not be verified in any official document; the Gmail address is deliberately NOT recorded here. Confirm the current address for lodging an application and for sending supporting documents before emailing anything.
The canine and feline sheets diverge on identification and age: dogs must be four months or older and ISO-microchipped, cats need neither. Confirm whether that is policy or an omission, and confirm whether the microchip must precede the rabies vaccination — no document says so, which is unusual for the region.
No official document prohibits any breed. A commercial site states plainly that Guyana publishes no banned-breed list, and separately bars wolf hybrids and Savannah and Bengal cats unless five generations removed from the pedigree. Both are recorded as secondary. Confirm with GLDA in either direction before assuming a hybrid or a listed cat is admissible.
The assigned-veterinarian arrangement, and the 24 hours' notice said to be owed to that veterinarian, come only from a commercial site. If genuine it is an ongoing obligation for the whole of the animal's stay, which is unusual and would affect a boat that plans to move between anchorages or leave and return. Ask GLDA whether a veterinarian is assigned, what the obligation consists of, who bears the cost, and what is required when the animal departs.
Establish the arrival procedure for a vessel. The Ministry's four-step procedure ends with the permit being COLLECTED in person by the applicant or a written-authorised representative, and describes nothing at the border. No port of entry, veterinary inspection, appointment or clearance step is published officially for any mode. The only airport named is Cheddi Jagan International, by a commercial site; the only SEAPORTS named anywhere are Bartica and Georgetown as ports of entry, plus Parika, and those come from the cruising press rather than from GLDA. Ask how an animal arriving at Georgetown on the Demerara — or at Bartica, well up the Essequibo — is presented, to whom, and whether the permit can be issued or forwarded to a boat with no agent ashore.
The import permit is single entry and valid three months. Confirm what a boat that leaves Guyana and returns in the same season must do, and confirm the export side — a G$5,000 per-animal export fee and an export health certificate taking four working days are published by the consulate, which means sailing on is itself a procedure to plan for.
Fees are quoted only by the consulate as advice received from GLDA (G$20,000 import, G$5,000 export per animal) and appear in no GLDA or Ministry document. Confirm current charges, currency and payment method, and whether any inspection, attendance, after-hours or quarantine charge applies on top.
The Ministry procedure page is dated 2016 and the consular requirement sheets were posted in 2024 with no date on their face. Confirm all of them are current, particularly the vaccination lists and the six-month residence clause.
Nothing addresses an animal that stays aboard and never lands, so no transit section is authored here.

About this page’s sources

GLDA's own website did not resolve when this file was written — glda.gy returns NXDOMAIN from the .gy registry and glda.gov.gy returns HTTP 522 — so the GLDA "General Provisions" document could not be read and the Wayback Machine has no capture of it. Nothing in this file comes from it. When the site returns, that document must be read and every secondary grading here re-tested against it, particularly the quarantine, the titer and the vaccine-age ceiling.

Page status

South America · Independent republic; member of CARICOM and the CommonwealthDataset status Inferredconfidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.Last checked 2026-08-12 Recently checkedfreshness: Recently checked. Sources were last re-read 61 days ago, well inside the 180-day window. Recent is not reviewed — this page is still an unreviewed draft.

Evidence

Import permit

Permit

Required^[1,4]

Apply ahead

3 days (Step 3 of the Ministry procedure: "Preparation of permit and specifying conditions of import by the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (three (3) working days)." Working days, not calendar days, and it covers only the preparation step — steps 1 and 2, the application and the determination, are untimed, and step 4 requires the permit to be COLLECTED by the applicant or an authorised person. Nothing says it can be issued electronically to someone still at sea.)^[1]

Evidence for Apply ahead

Step 3: – Preparation of permit and specifying conditions of import by the Guyana Livestock Development Authority (three (3) working days).

Validity

90 days ("This permit is valid for three (3) months (single entry) from the date thereof." Single entry matters to a boat that intends to leave Guyana and come back — a second call means a second permit. Three months is also the figure that commercial sites report as a limit on the age of the health certificate; that appears to be this line misread, and no official document places any validity window on the certificate.)^[2,3]

Evidence for Validity

This permit is valid for three (3) months (single entry) from the date thereof.

What it costs

G$20,000 per animal for imports, per the Consulate General of Guyana in New York, which states that GLDA "has advised that there is a processing fee of: G$20,000 per animal for imports / G$5,000 per animal for exports". Neither requirement sheet nor the Ministry procedure names any fee, and nothing says how or in what currency it is paid — the figure is the Consulate reporting what the agency told it, not the agency's own published tariff.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[6,1]

Email: gldaceo@agriculture.gov.gy
Official page: https://agriculture.gov.gy/2016/06/27/procedure-for-the-importation-of-animals-into-guyana/

Rabies

Vaccination

Required^[2,3]

Min. before travel

30 days ("Vaccinated against rabies at least one (1) month prior to the date of exportation." The clock runs to EXPORT, not to arrival. Note also that this figure is a floor with no official ceiling — see max_vaccine_age.)^[2,3]

Max. before travel

365 days (SECONDARY, NOT OFFICIAL. A commercial pet-travel site states the animal "must be vaccinated for rabies between 30 days and 12 months prior to entering Guyana". Neither requirement sheet sets any outer limit at all, names a vaccine type, or says whether a three-year vaccine is accepted on its own validity. If you carry a multi-year vaccine given more than a year ago, do not assume either that it passes or that it fails — ask.)^[7]

Boosters, and what the certificate must show

READ THE OFFICIAL RABIES CLAUSE CAREFULLY — IT IS CONDITIONAL, NOT FLAT. Both requirement sheets first make the exporting country's Veterinary Authority certify that "there has been no rabies among dogs [cats] that have not been quarantined, or other animals in the country from which such animal has been exported during the six (6) months preceding the exportation", and only then add: "If rabies has occurred among such animals, the dog (s) [cat(s)] to be exported has/have been vaccinated against rabies at least one (1) month prior to the date of exportation." So on the official text the vaccination requirement is triggered by the rabies situation in the country you sail FROM. This file records rabies as required regardless, because almost every departure point a boat would use in the Caribbean, the Americas or Europe has had rabies in the preceding six months, and because a commercial source states the requirement flatly and unconditionally. Do not read the conditional wording as permission to arrive unvaccinated. No vaccine type, manufacturer standard, batch recording or certificate wording is specified anywhere.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[2,3,7]

Rabies titer test

A blood test that measures rabies antibodies, to show the vaccination actually took. The sample has to be drawn a set time after the jab, and some places then make you wait months more before the animal may land — so this is the requirement most worth checking before you plan a route, not after.

Blood titer

Required^[7]

Required level

NO THRESHOLD IS DOCUMENTED, THOUGH SEROLOGY IS MENTIONED. Neither the Ministry procedure nor either requirement sheet mentions serology. The Consulate General's page does, in the EXPORT direction: "rabies vaccine should be administered 30 days prior to travel in some cases result of a titer test is required" — an official Guyanese mission page, so a titer is not a purely commercial invention, but that sentence is about animals leaving and it attaches the test to unnamed "some cases". A commercial pet-travel site states that "a rabies titer test is required when entering Guyana from high-rabies countries" and that it should be drawn more than 30 days after the vaccination. Between them they name no antibody threshold, no approved laboratory and no waiting period between the sample and travel. Since a titer typically forces a wait of weeks to months, and since Guyana appears to decide the high-rabies question at permit application, an unquantified titer requirement is a planning risk on the same scale as the quarantine. Ask GLDA whether serology applies to your departure country, and if so to what threshold and with what wait, before you fix a date.^[6,7]

Veterinary health certificate

Certificate

Required^[2,3]

Completed within

NOT DOCUMENTED. Neither requirement sheet puts any validity window on the health certificate. A three-month figure circulates in loose summaries and is not recorded here — no cited source states it, and it appears to be the IMPORT PERMIT's validity transposed onto the certificate: both sheets close "This permit is valid for three (3) months (single entry) from the date thereof." Treat any three-month certificate window as unsourced until someone produces it. In practice the binding clock is the parasite treatment — the certificate has to attest to a treatment given within 72 hours of export, so the certificate itself cannot sensibly predate that by more than three days.^[2,3]

Gov. endorsement

Required^[2,3]

Arriving by sea

NONE PUBLISHED, AND NONE IMPLIED. No Guyanese document consulted mentions a yacht, a vessel, a sea arrival or a voyage of any length. Every timing in the requirement sheets is pinned to "export" or "exportation", terms written for a consignment that leaves and arrives the same day. Do not read the absence of a sea provision as a concession to boats.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,2,3]

What the certificate must say

"The animal (s) must be accompanied by the necessary Health Certificate (s) signed by the Veterinary Authority of the country of origin, certifying that:" — followed by the species-specific attestations set out under other_health, covering vaccination, freedom from infectious and contagious disease, six months' residence in the exporting country, the rabies situation in that country, and parasite treatment within 72 hours of export.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[2,3]

Parasite treatment

Internal

The health certificate must certify that "the animal has been treated for external and internal parasites 72 hours prior to export." No drug, class, dose or manufacturer instruction is specified, and tapeworm is not called out separately.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[2,3]

External

Same clause, same 72 hours, same certificate. No persistence or efficacy period is required of the ectoparasiticide, unlike several neighbouring jurisdictions.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[2,3]

Timing

72 hours prior to EXPORT — and the direction of that clock is the whole question for a boat. It runs to departure, not to arrival, so a passage of any length does not by itself break the requirement. What it does instead is compress everything into the three days before you sail: the treatment, the veterinary examination, a health certificate that attests to the treatment, and that certificate's signature by the exporting country's Veterinary Authority all have to fall inside the window, and then the weather has to let you go. A two-day delay on the dock puts you outside it with paperwork that no longer says what the sheet requires. What "export" means for a yacht — outbound clearance, or slipping lines — is defined nowhere.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[2,3]

Nothing says the animal must be kept free of parasites during the passage, and nothing addresses re-treatment if departure slips. Neither is a concession; both are silences.^[2,3]

Identification

Standard

"Identified by an ISO standard microchip" — the canine sheet's words, without citing ISO 11784 or 11785 by number. A commercial source adds the usual gloss that a 15-digit chip to ISO 11784 or Annex A of ISO 11785 is the most widely accepted form and suggests carrying your own scanner; that gloss is not Guyana's and is not recorded as a requirement.^[2,7]

Evidence for Standard

must be identified by an ISO standard microchip.

Chip before rabies

No ordering requirement stated^[2,3]

The microchip requirement appears ONLY on the canine sheet, alongside the four-month minimum age, so it is recorded against dogs rather than here — see the Dogs section. The feline sheet requires no identification of any kind: no chip, no tattoo, no age. Two documents of otherwise parallel construction differ on this, which reads more like an omission than a policy. Chip the cat anyway and confirm with GLDA. Nothing in either sheet says the chip must be implanted before the rabies vaccination, so that ordering rule — standard in much of the region — is simply absent here rather than waived.^[2,3]

Animals & vaccinations

Dogs

Microchip

Required^[2]

Evidence for Microchip

Animal to be imported must be four (4) months or older and must be identified by an ISO standard microchip.

Min. age

120 days ("Animal to be imported must be four (4) months or older and must be identified by an ISO standard microchip." This is on the CANINE sheet only. The FELINE sheet sets no minimum age and requires no microchip, so on the face of the two documents a kitten of any age may be imported unchipped while a puppy under four months may not. That asymmetry may be real or may be an omission — do not assume either.)^[2]

Evidence for Min. age

Animal to be imported must be four (4) months or older and must be identified by an ISO

Vaccinesconfidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[2]

Canine Distemper
Hepatitis
Leptospirosis
Parainfluenza
Parvovirus

Breed restrictionsconfidence: Secondary. From a non-government source; treat as a lead, not gospel.^[7]

Wolf hybrids (prohibited unless 5th generation removed from the pedigree)

Cats

Microchip

Required^[7]

Vaccinesconfidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[3]

Feline Calicivirus
Feline Panleukopenia
Feline Rhinotracheitis

Breed restrictionsconfidence: Secondary. From a non-government source; treat as a lead, not gospel.^[7]

Savannah cats (prohibited unless 5th generation removed from the pedigree)
Bengal cats (prohibited unless 5th generation removed from the pedigree)

Other health requirements

Note

THE SIX-MONTH RESIDENCE RULE is the official requirement most likely to stop a cruising animal, and it is easy to read past because it is buried as clause (c) of a certification list. The exporting country's Veterinary Authority must certify that the animal "was born in and has/have never left the country, or if not born in or has/ have left and returned to that country, has/have been in the country for the previous six (6) months." An animal that lives aboard and has been working its way down the island chain has not been in the country it is clearing out of for six months, and the vet signing the certificate has no basis to say otherwise. No titer, fee, wait or quarantine is offered as a route through it — the sheets simply state it as something the certificate must say. Whether GLDA reads "the country" as the port of departure, the flag state of the vessel, or the animal's country of residence is not addressed. NO TESTING of any kind is required by either sheet — no heartworm, no leishmaniasis, no brucellosis, no serology — and no breed or type of dog is prohibited by any official document consulted; a commercial source states in terms that "Guyana does not publish a list of banned breeds", while the same source separately bars wolf hybrids and Savannah and Bengal cats unless five generations removed from the pedigree.

Dogs: Vaccinated against canine distemper, hepatitis, leptospirosis, parainfluenza and parvovirus. No interval before export is specified for these, unlike the rabies clause. A commercial source contradicts the requirement, stating that "Guyana does not require other vaccinations for personal imports" and listing these five only as vaccinations to discuss with a vet.confidence: Conflicting. Sources disagree — verify before you rely on it.^[2,7]
In good health and free from signs of infectious and contagious diseases.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[2]
Born in the exporting country and never having left it — or, if not, having been in that country for the previous six (6) months.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[2]
No rabies among dogs that have not been quarantined, or other animals, in the exporting country during the six (6) months preceding export.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[2]
Treated for external and internal parasites 72 hours prior to export.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[2]
Four (4) months or older and identified by an ISO standard microchip.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[2]
Cats: Fully vaccinated against calicivirus, feline panleukopenia and rhinotracheitis. Feline leukaemia is NOT on Guyana's list. A commercial source contradicts the requirement, stating that "Guyana does not require other vaccinations for personal imports" and listing these three — plus leukaemia — only as vaccinations to discuss with a vet.confidence: Conflicting. Sources disagree — verify before you rely on it.^[3,7]
In good health and free from signs of infectious and contagious diseases.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[3]
Born in the exporting country and never having left it — or, if not, having been in that country for the previous six (6) months.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[3]
No rabies among cats that have not been quarantined, or other animals, in the exporting country during the six (6) months immediately preceding export.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[3]
Treated for external and internal parasites 72 hours prior to export.confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[3]

Sources

1
Procedure for the Importation of Animals into Guyana — Guyana Ministry of Agriculture
agricultureAccessed 2026-08-12Published 2016-06-27archived copy
2
Canine Requirements — Guyana Livestock Development Authority, Ministry of Agriculture — published by the Consulate General of Guyana, New York
agricultureAccessed 2026-08-12archived copy
3
Feline Requirements — Guyana Livestock Development Authority, Ministry of Agriculture — published by the Consulate General of Guyana, New York
agricultureAccessed 2026-08-12archived copy
4
Import Permit Application — Guyana Livestock Development Authority — Animal Health Unit, Ministry of Agriculture
veterinary authorityAccessed 2026-08-12archived copy
5
Guyana — Pets, Arriving in Guyana with a Pet onboard — Noonsite (Cruising Association)
secondaryAccessed 2026-08-13Published 2024-03-01archived copy
6
Animals Import — Consulate General of Guyana, New York
agricultureAccessed 2026-08-12archived copy
7
Guyana Pet Import Requirements — PetTravel.com
secondaryAccessed 2026-08-12archived copy

Last checked August 2026 · 1 high-priority open question · Sources & questions

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