The vets' professional order delivers a petition to parliament on Thursday asking for VAT on pet care to fall from 23 to 6 percent. Here is what owners pay now, the signature bar for a plenary debate, and the IRS deduction you can already claim.
Both laws come from PAN bills and were approved over the votes of PSD and CDS-PP. What they say, the 90 days the Government has to regulate, and what is not known until the texts are published.
A new DGAV order moves special-use authorisations for veterinary medicines not sold in Portugal onto an online platform, with a seven-day decision, no fee and a five-day limit for antimicrobials. What changes for pet owners and farmers.
When your dog or cat can ride Portuguese trains, metros, buses, and trams, what carrier, lead, and muzzle it needs, and what its ticket costs.
From 4 October dogs may enter the gardens of the National Palaces of Sintra and Queluz and the Capuchos Convent. Pena Park and Cabo da Roca stay closed to them.
The GNR's nature protection service counts 982 abandonments and 1,668 cases of death or mistreatment, rescued more than 7,500 animals and asks the public to keep reporting neglect.
Found a wallet, phone, or pet in Portugal, or lost one? What the law asks of finders, the one year rule, what you can claim, and where to report.
