Einreise mit Tier: Tunesien (2026)

Key points

• Tunisia's pet-entry rules are published by the Tunisian Customs authority and sourced on that page to the Ministry of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries, Direction Générale des Services Vétérinaires
• At the point of entry a dog or cat must carry the ORIGINAL official veterinary health certificate issued by the official veterinary services of the country of origin, together with the animal's health booklet (livret sanitaire), and must have been vaccinated against rabies
• If the animal is under 3 months old it can still travel: Tunisia instead requires that its mother was vaccinated against rabies, so a puppy or kitten too young to be vaccinated is not automatically barred the way it would be entering the EU
• Four dog breeds are prohibited outright by Order of the Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries No
• 2083 of 8 July 2010 — Pit-bull, Rottweiler, Tosa and Mastiff/Boerbull — and customs lists them among the absolute import prohibitions, alongside a warning about dangerous or attack dogs generally; the veterinary services' own poster spells them Pit-bull, Bowerbull, Toza Inu and Rottweiler, so expect a customs officer to read the breed off the certificate
• Animals are subject to veterinary sanitary control at the border post on import
• Three things Tunisia does not publish, and which a traveller should confirm with the Direction Générale des Services Vétérinaires before booking: how long the health certificate stays valid, how far ahead of travel the rabies vaccination has to be given, and whether the animal must be identified by microchip or tattoo
• Widely repeated figures for these — a 12-day certificate window, a 30-day rabies delay, entry only via Tunis-Carthage — appear only in commercial pet-travel sites and in no Tunisian government source we hold, so this record does not carry them