Bringing my pup from the U.S

I received a lot of good info regarding bringing my pup up from the U.S. I'm glad I followed it.

At the crossing, the booth guy asked about the dog, sent me in to pay the duty. It was only $26 bucks. BUT then the guy back in the garage gave me the third degree about where I got the dog, how did I find out about the dog, where on the internet I found the dog, why did I get this dog, how I paid for the dog, why did I pay without even seeing the dog, why not get a dog closer to home, what's the breeder's name, kennel name, website.

He went away to check the website. He came back, gain asked why I bought the dog in Boise. I convinced him that he is the best breeder. 45min later, have a nice day.

Couldn't imagine what would happen if I didn't claim the pup, and got pinched! So $26 well spent. Not sure why the third degree though. I'm sure guns and drugs passed through the border in the 45min. he was dealing with a husband and wife, with a new pup and ALL the required paperwork. Doing his job I'm sure, but his boss sure has his priorities messed up.

Just say'n.

I had the same thing happen to me when I got my pup. Only thing was I told them the dog was $200 instead of $500. Had all the paper work and everything. They ripped my truck apart checked my cell phone, wallet you name it they checked it. After the first 2hours went by and me standing in front of the truck in February with no jacket on.....I ask the 2 guys if your looking for the dog he is in that plastic thing with the cage door on it. That didn't go to well and 3.5 hours later and an extra $40 they let me go. These 2 clowns made me laugh.

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Originally Posted by little brit

Only thing was I told them the dog was $200 instead of $500.

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Was the dog truly $200 or did you low-ball the bill to avoid paying more tax on the dog? Sorry but I can't blame the officers for being suspicious, from their perspective, people will drive some distance for a pup costing $500 or more, but probably would not do that for a pup of lesser value.

Whatever the price of the pup, hope you got a good one!!! :-)

I had no issues when I went last year to pick up mine. They asked why I would go to the states for it and I simply told them that I couldn't find the same type up here. The guy shrugged his shoulders and said OK fair enough and away I went lol.

Never had any problems or issues crossing at Buffalo, but Sarnia, and Detroit are the worse, pretty much how you explained it. Or having the pup shipped into Pearson, now there's no comparison here. Honestly thought I was going to get locked up and they would throw the key away. I totally lost it... Never again...

Drugs are often inserted in to a bithc's vagina and anus. Another reason customs has to be cautious. A reason I can't eat kindereggs. :)

Glad you and the pup made it home. Don't have any dog boarder stories, but have some other great ones dealing with those clowns, I guess not fair to paint them all with the same brush, like anywhere, there are good people and bad, but boy can you tell the ones that are angry they didn't make the police force and are now the crossing guards.

My dad recently had one lady ask "sir, do you know how to read"

Because he asked on the declaration form "does place of residence mean, where do I live currently in Canada, or where am I staying inside of the US"

He stated if he didn't know how to read, he'd probably be doing her job.

Awhile later, he found out it means where are you staying inside the US, I think his but hole has since gone back to normal size :joker:

He also holds various work visa's for different countries, forget where he had went, might of been Columbia or South Africa direct from Vancouver, after that he returned to Canada, then went somewhere in the US.

Boarder services say "you recently went to x country" yes I did "well the terms of your visa are you surrender it when you go to another country"

Okay, but I didn't go to the US, who do I surrender it to? "well you surrender it when you went through customers" okay again, I flew direct from Canada, to the country, at no time was I in the US, where in the US would I have surrendered it to?

Apparently this went on for awhile, and they finally let him go, they couldn't fathom you can fly to other places directly from Canada without stopping in the US.

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Originally Posted by zoli 16ga.

I received a lot of good info regarding bringing my pup up from the U.S. I'm glad I followed it.

At the crossing, the booth guy asked about the dog, sent me in to pay the duty. It was only $26 bucks. BUT then the guy back in the garage gave me the third degree about where I got the dog, how did I find out about the dog, where on the internet I found the dog, why did I get this dog, how I paid for the dog, why did I pay without even seeing the dog, why not get a dog closer to home, what's the breeder's name, kennel name, website.

He went away to check the website. He came back, gain asked why I bought the dog in Boise. I convinced him that he is the best breeder. 45min later, have a nice day.

Couldn't imagine what would happen if I didn't claim the pup, and got pinched! So $26 well spent. Not sure why the third degree though. I'm sure guns and drugs passed through the border in the 45min. he was dealing with a husband and wife, with a new pup and ALL the required paperwork. Doing his job I'm sure, but his boss sure has his priorities messed up.

Just say'n.

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Don that's HILARIOUS, that's almost exactly what happened to us except add our crying 10 month old son into the mix . With Jasper, we got the regular questions and for some reason about 25 others LOL. We offered to have him call up the web site and verify info, his response .... I don't have access to the web. At that point we lost our minds . Every jobs got "that guy" .

I have brought many dogs over the border and brought many back as well with only one incident. Standard questions how much did you pay,can I see the receipt with contact persons name etc. The one question they asked me was how much do Labrador Retriever pups cost ? I said between $50.00 and thousands of dollars really depends on the bloodline, titles etc. Overall I would say the experience at the border very good.

Yes I low balled the price from $500 to $200 with a receipt to prove but that didn't matter. If I knew it would only cost $74 in duty I would have just said $500. It was my first time crossing a dog and was a bit nervous. It all worked out and the pup is great. We need one more leg for our FD title and she scored a prize 3 in our navhda test. Not bad for a rookie trainer. I hope to run her in a utility test in September.

And one other thing, in all the years I've been bringing dogs in from the US, not once have I been asked to show a health certificate to see if the dog or dogs are up todate on their shots and in sound health. It's all about the money, how much did you pay for the dog. That one time when I had a pup flown into Pearson they even tried to ad in the cost of the flight to the overall cost of the dog. That's when I lost it...