Passport help!!

[K8]

Lea, out percheron mare came from Belgium, she was bred as a meat horse, as far as we know she went via france to the UK, I know of 2 of her owners since she got to the uk, I guess there have been more but, we are trying to get the address changed from the original owner / breeder...

We have been in contact with the passport company, they can't help, they say we need to contact their uk counterpart, I asked for their email address... they don't have it!!

So we call DEFRA, they can't help either, they say we need to change the address with the original passport issuer!!!

ARGH... So we're stuck! Go round and round in circles....

Does anyone have ANY ideas??

[cuffey]

Which passport company is she registered with?

Ask BEF [e-mail] what is the daughter PIO in the UK

[K8]

The passport says 'confederation wellonie-bruxelles du chaval'

[Deleted]

I'd try contacting one of the passport inssuing offices and ask them to give you a new british passport. Talin's got a Spanish one which showed change of ownership when he was imported but he also now has an English one from the Horse Passport Agency.

[K8]

Thanks Michelle... When we asked our vet to issue a new one... they said they can't do it while we still have the current one???

[horsefeed]

I had similar with my donkey, he has a french passport and we went round and round in circles trying to get it updated, in the end (vet recommended), applying for a new one with horse passport agency, he didn't have a microchip so we got him done and then filled in a new application using DOB etc of original passport. I now keep the original inside the new with a covering letter from my vet. So we are aparently legal if we get stopped when transporting or anything.