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At midnight on Friday, September 18, Svinesund customs officials stopped a car with Norwegian registration number that entered the customs station in the green zone. The man who was driving the car lives in western Norway, but of foreign origin.
– He said that he had been and visited a friend in Sweden, a very short visit in just 10 minutes. Customs officers saw that he had a dog crate in the passenger seat, with a dog inside, and asked if he had bought this now, says office manager Per Kristian Grandahl at Svinesund customs.
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Banned in Norway
To this, the man first replied that the puppy had been bought in May, but it eventually emerged that it had recently been transported from Spain and had now made a quick trip across the Swedish border to pick it up.
– He said that he had paid 400 euros for it, but that he did not have a receipt to prove it. We also didn’t do anything else to find out if this was true, Grandahl continues.
It turned out that the dog was of an illegal breed in this country, the Czechoslovakian wolfdog. This breed is a cross between wolves and German Shepherds, which were raised in the former Czechoslovak Republic in the 1950s and 1960s.
The man also did not have all the health certificates and other papers to be able to bring the puppy to the country.
– He had received some vaccinations, but some were also missing It’s not good either, says Grandahl.
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– Not good for anyone
Since it is not legal to introduce this breed of dog into Norway in any case, the dog was seized on the spot and handed over to the Norwegian Food Safety Authority. The usual procedure in such cases is that the dog should be euthanized, and this will most likely happen in this case as well, says Grandahl.
– That’s what is so sad when people get animals this way. That is why it is so important that people adhere to the laws and regulations in force for the importation of animals. It’s not good for anyone who goes as far as killing, he says.
According to the office manager, Friday’s dog seizure is the fifth in Svinesund since the corona pandemic entered Norway in March this year. The Democrat has previously mentioned several of the other cases.
By comparison, one or two dogs were seized in the same period last year, without Grandahl wanting to characterize it as a significant increase.
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The puppy was cared for by customs officials before handing it over to the Norwegian Food Safety Authority. Now you probably have to pay with your life. PHOTO: Customs
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