Rabies Vacination Certificates REQUIRED @ PATRICK

ANYONE with a pet be advised that Patrick now Requires Rabies Certificates to be displayed for all Pets at Check in. Fortunately we had ours for our indoor cats. A fellow camper did not and finding a weekend VET ended up costing him about $300 by the time he got out the door.

Found out the same thing and it makes no difference - indoor or outdoor cat. You also need the same for dogs. Need the actual certificate - tag on collar not enough.

I feel that this policy is a bit over the top for house cats that seldom get out. We have come clear across the country from east to west, north to south, and have yet to encounter a similar one ANYWHERE else. I am sure there must be a few, but this is the only one we have encountered as of now. Good judgment and common sense (as well as some sort of notification that this is the policy) should prevail. Rote bureaucratic adherence rules results in waste and evasion/avoidance. We had to dig ours out. Tags and our word were not good enough. stupid.
Bill

I agree this is over the top. Last time we were there was about 3 years ago and had one house cat with us and we knew ahead of time about the rabies vaccination so took our document with us. All four of our cats are now over the rainbow bridge so no longer need to concern ourselves with these rules. When I asked about the reason the only response was we do not want to show favoritism to cats over dogs as cats have been known to get out of RV's and could attack a person same as a dog.

Re: "as cats have been known to get out of RV's and could attack a person same as a dog."

That is hilarious! Thanks for sharing.

I posted somewhere here that I find it amazing/dumb that us folks that are/have been in the iron jaw of discipline for decades are subjected to this stuff. We can go to a KOA and no problem. Yet on a Post/Base/Camp of our brethren we are treated like children. Many FAMCAMPS give you several pages of rules (most of which are common sense) yet civ CG's usually give you nothing except what is printed on their CG map. So, pay little and get treated like a child or pay a lot and treated like an adult.

I must agree with belgique, we have been told by most of the civ RV parks we stay at that they don't care about our two cats, that it's dogs they want to know about.