Furious owners not told of kennel cough in quarantine

Owners of dogs imported into Australia via the Spotswood AQIS quarantine station in Victoria are furious that they were not informed prior to the arrival of their dogs that the kennel cough virus was present in the complex.

Animals coming into Australia are subject to the strictest regulations you will find anywhere in the world. Yet despite this, the virus has resurfaced at Spotswood, with staff restricting movement of dogs within its boundaries for over 3 months now.

James Camac will get his Australian Silky Terrier bitch out of quarantine on June 11. She is due to whelp a litter of puppies the following week. He told Dog News that the first he had heard of kennel cough at Spotswood was when staff told him on his first visit, on May 12, that he could not walk his bitch on the grass. "All I have been able to do is carry her to the hydrobath and back", he said.

source: dognewsaustralia