Honduras

NO PERMIT AND NO PERMIT FEE FOR ONE OR TWO ANIMALS — SENASA's instructivo is explicit: "Cuando la importación es solo de 1 o 2 mascotas a la vez, no se requiere el Permiso Zoosanitario de Importación." What one or two animals pay is the arrival inspection charge, not a permit fee; see the fees section. FOR THREE OR MORE the permit is required and costs Lps. 750.00, paid as a TGR1 through online banking to the Servicio Nacional de Sanidad e Inocuidad Agroalimentaria, plus two Colegio Médico Veterinario stamps (timbres) of Lps. 10.00 each bought at any bank in that Colegio's name. The TGR1 is generated first on the SENASA website, then the applicant files the Solicitud de Permiso Zoosanitario de Importación on SENASA's Plataforma de Importaciones, attaching the exporting country's veterinary certificate, the vaccination card and a Constancia de Cuarentena Fiduciaria from a private colegiado veterinarian who will carry out the quarantine at the owner's home. SENASA says a technician reviews and approves it through the platform and the permit reaches the applicant's email "en instantes" — within moments. No processing time in days and no validity period are published, which is why neither is recorded as a value here. The exact URL of the Plataforma de Importaciones is not given in the instructivo, which names only www.senasa.gob.hn, so no application_url is recorded rather than guessed.◈confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[2]

The vaccination card, not the certificate, is the governing document for vaccines, and Acuerdo 331-2009 item IV.1 says what it must show: "Se deberá hacer constar en cada caso la fecha de la inmunización, tipo y marca del producto utilizado" — in each case the date of immunisation, the type and the brand of the product used must be recorded. The feline sheet adds that the card must contain the record of the vaccines applied "en orden" — in order. A bare "rabies, in date" line will not satisfy that. No approved vaccine type, manufacturer or registration list is named, no inactivated vaccine is specified, and nothing distinguishes a primary course from a booster. Nothing addresses an animal from a country that does not vaccinate against rabies, and no titre substitutes for the vaccine.◈confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,4]

THERE IS NO CLOCK TO BE EXCEEDED, SO THERE IS NOTHING FOR A PASSAGE TO BREAK — no certificate validity period in days is published at all, which is the reverse of the problem most of this dataset poses to a slow boat. What Honduras does have is something better and rarer: an express sea limb. Acuerdo 331-2009 brings arrival "por vía terrestre marítima o aérea" inside its own scope, and its condition III.5 gives animals arriving BY AIR OR SEA without sanitary documentation a route in — conditional on a Honduran colegiado veterinarian's certificate and a ten-day cuarentena fiduciaria — where condition III.4 gives an animal at a LAND post only refusal until the papers appear. A yacht is therefore on the favourable side of the only mode-of-arrival distinction the instrument draws. What is NOT addressed is the vaccination card, which both requirement sheets insist must be current "a la llegada de la mascota al país" — on arrival, not on departure. A booster that lapses mid-ocean lapses, and no sea allowance touches that.◈confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[1,3,4]

From "REQUISITOS IMPORTACIÓN CANINOS (PERROS)" — the feline sheet is materially identical: "Certificado Veterinario Internacional de Exportación, en original, emitido por la Autoridad Competente del país exportador, conteniendo los siguientes datos: a) Nombre y dirección del exportador, b) Nombre y dirección del importador, c) Cantidad: N. de animales, d) Peso (kilogramos), e) Raza, f) Sexo, g) Edad, h) País de origen, i) País de procedencia, j) Aduana de salida, k) Aduana de ingreso, l) Nombre y Firma del Funcionario de la Autoridad Competente, m) Sello. CERTIFICACIONES: 1. Al examen clínico por parte del Médico Veterinario, el animal fue encontrado sano, sin síntomas de enfermedades infectocontagiosas, tumoraciones, ectoparásitos y sin heridas frescas o en proceso de cicatrización. 2. Fue tratado con medicamentos contra endo y ectoparásitos, con 15 días de anticipa[ción a] la exportación (indicar fecha de aplicación, principio activo, marca comercial y número de lote). 3. Fueron vacunados contra Distemper, Hepatitis, Leptospirosis, Parvovirosis, Parainfluenza y Rabia (perros adultos y cachorros de 4 meses en adelante)." — In English: an ORIGINAL International Veterinary Export Certificate issued by the COMPETENT AUTHORITY of the exporting country, stating the exporter's and importer's names and addresses, the number of animals, weight in kilograms, breed, sex, age, country of origin, country of provenance, the CUSTOMS POST OF DEPARTURE and the CUSTOMS POST OF ENTRY, and the name, signature and seal of the competent authority's officer; certifying that on clinical examination the animal was found healthy, free of symptoms of infectious disease, of tumours, of external parasites and of fresh or healing wounds; that it was treated against internal and external parasites 15 days before export, naming the date of administration, active principle, brand and batch number; and that it was vaccinated against the listed diseases. Note the phrase "con 15 días de anticipa la exportación" is a grammatical slip in SENASA's own document; the sense is plainly "15 days in advance of export".◈confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[3,4]

Treatment against internal parasites (endoparásitos) is required and must be certified. The canine sheet: "Fue tratado con medicamentos contra endo y ectoparásitos". The certificate must name the date of administration, the active principle, the commercial brand and the batch number. No product is named or approved, and no minimum efficacy or persistence is imposed.◈confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[3,4]

Treatment against external parasites (ectoparásitos) on identical terms and in the same window — Honduras treats the two as a single requirement. The feline sheet spells out what the clinical examination must exclude: "sin ectoparásitos (ácaros, garrapatas, pulgas)" — free of mites, TICKS and FLEAS. That is an inspection standard as well as a treatment standard, and a boat dog that picked up ticks at the last landfall can fail it on the dock with perfect paperwork.◈confidence: Inferred. Backed by an official source but not yet certified by a human reviewer.^[3,4]

THE OFFICIAL SOURCES DISAGREE, AND THE DIFFERENCE IS FIFTEEN DAYS AGAINST THIRTY. SENASA's 2023 requirement sheets say the treatment must be given "15 días" before export — the canine sheet, "con 15 días de anticipa[ción a] la exportación"; the feline sheet, "desparasitados endo y ectoparásitos 15 (quince) días antes del embarque", fifteen days before shipment. Acuerdo 331-2009 item IV.2 instead says the card must show that the animals were treated against external and internal parasites "PREFERENTEMENTE en los 30 días previos a la fecha de embarque" — PREFERABLY within the 30 days before the embarkation date. Two differences, not one: the number, and the fact that the 2009 text is a preference while the 2023 sheets read as a requirement. Note also that both count to EMBARKATION rather than arrival, so unlike the vaccination card the treatment does not lapse on a long passage. The safe reading for a boat is to treat at fifteen days before sailing, which sits inside both windows.▲confidence: Conflicting. Sources disagree — verify before you rely on it.^[3,4,1]