customs.dog checks your pet's documents against the real, up-to-date rules for your route and gives you one answer: cleared, caution, or blocked. Then, at the gate, it puts the right document full-screen in 5 seconds — even with no signal.
It's midnight before the drive south and you're Googling — again — whether the CDC rule changed. Your dog's papers are scattered across email, Google Drive, the vet's portal, and four thousand photos. You think you have everything. You won't know for sure until an official puts out a hand at the booth — and by then it's too late to fix.
A rabies titer takes about three weeks. You can't get one at the airport. The documents you need most are exactly the ones you can't get back if you find out you're missing them at the worst possible moment.
You discover a missing or expired document after it's too late to fix.
Agent waiting, leash in one hand, no signal, scrolling 4,000 photos for one PDF.
They did, and nobody told you. The 2024–25 CDC dog-import overhaul caught a lot of people out.
Pick your pet, your destination, and your travel dates. customs.dog checks every requirement for that crossing — CDC import receipt, health certificate, rabies vaccine and titer, microchip, destination permit, airline letters — against the current rules, and gives you one verdict with every gap spelled out:
Every requirement is met and current through your return date.
Something expires before you're back, or a rule needs your confirmation. Here's exactly what.
You're missing a document you can't get at the airport. Here's what to ask your vet for, today.
Even Mexico — which needs no entry health certificate — still requires a CDC receipt to bring your dog home. customs.dog tracks the outbound leg and the re-entry leg as separate requirements, because they are.
Point your camera at the paper. customs.dog reads the dates and figures out what it is — you just confirm. No typing, no file management.
Get your verdict — cleared, caution, or blocked — with exactly what's missing or expiring, and what to do about it.
Tap once, hand over the phone in Present Mode. The official sees one document, full-screen, even with no signal — and nothing else of yours.
| A folder of screenshots | customs.dog |
|---|---|
| Stores your files | Tells you if you're cleared to cross |
| Knows nothing about the rules | Maintains the per-country / per-airline rules, dated |
| Doesn't know what's expired | Flags expiring & expired docs before you travel |
| Needs a signal to load | Works offline at the gate |
| Shows your whole drive to whoever holds the phone | Present Mode shows one document, nothing else |
| You Google the rules yourself, every trip | The verdict does it for you — and shows its sources |
Doing an international move? A pet-relocation agency runs $1,000–3,000. customs.dog gives you the same checklist confidence — and it's free while we're in beta.
customs.dog is in early beta — and it's completely free right now. Paid plans will come later, and we'll always tell you well before anything ever costs money. No credit card, no catch.
We show our sources and our dates. Every verdict carries "Rules verified for [country] as of [date]" and links to the official authority (CDC, USDA-APHIS, the destination's ministry). You can check our work.
When we're not sure, we say so. If a rule is ambiguous or we can't confirm it for your date, customs.dog will never flash a confident green. It tells you to verify with the authority — and names which office to call.
We ask for less. Your documents contain passport numbers, addresses, dates of birth — so we never ask for those as account fields. Your account is just an email. Present Mode shows an official one document and nothing else. Delete your account and it's really gone.
You're never locked in. Storage is free forever and you can export your documents anytime.
customs.dog is an informational preparation tool. It is not legal, veterinary, or immigration advice, and it does not guarantee admission — only the official authorities decide that. Always confirm requirements with the relevant authority for your travel date. customs.dog is operated by Capital Thought, LLC (Texas).
No — and be wary of anything that claims to be. Only the border authorities decide admission. customs.dog is a preparation assistant: it checks your documents against the current rules, shows you exactly where the gaps are, and shows its sources and dates so you can confirm.
We maintain a per-country, per-airline pet-import rules corpus, watch the authoritative sources (CDC, USDA-APHIS, destination ministries, airline pet pages) for changes, and human-verify updates before they go live. Every verdict shows the date the rules were last verified for your route.
Yes — that's the whole point. Before you travel, one tap downloads your trip-critical documents to your phone. At the gate, the right document opens full-screen instantly, even with no service. customs.dog will never show you a spinner or log you out at a border.
We're launching deep on the corridors that matter most to US travelers — starting with US↔Mexico — rather than shallow coverage of everywhere. We add corridors continuously.
Right now, nothing — customs.dog is free while we're in beta. Paid plans will come later (including options for one-off trips), and we'll always tell you well before anything ever costs money. No credit card to join.
Yes. Invite them to your household as a member or delegate. You can load and maintain their documents from your own phone; they just tap and show at the gate. Billing stays with the account owner.
Your documents are served only to you, never publicly listed. We never ask for passport numbers or addresses as account fields — your account is just an email. Present Mode shows an official only the one document you choose. Delete your account and your files are permanently removed.
We're leading with dogs (the rules are sharpest and change most, and the domain is .dog). The model is built to add other species — stay tuned.
customs.dog tells you if your dog is cleared to cross, and puts the right document full-screen in 5 seconds at the gate — even with no signal. We're launching soon, starting with US↔Mexico. Sign up for the free beta and we'll email you the moment you can check your first trip.
Built by the team behind stormey.dog — a working travel-document app used daily for a family's service dog who flies.