Puppies can travel the following ways (all are completely safe and enjoyable for the Frenchie).

Puppy transport
Frenchies are traveling in a temperature-controlled and pressurized space of the airplane. They are definitely not stacked on top of suitcases, they don’t feel cold or hot. There are expert pet shipping companies, they are taking care of the puppies during the period of the flight. The puppy is absolutely treated as a human passenger: during layovers, they are taken off the plane and placed in a pet hotel, where they get fresh food and water.

Traveling with a nanny
This can happen when at least four puppies are traveling together. The puppies can either be with the nanny in the cabin or in a special space like we mentioned before when they travel without the nanny. Approximately bimonthly, Geri, the co-founder of Tom King Puppies travels with the puppies to check if the process goes well and to hand over puppies himself to the happy parents.
In each case, the puppy is in a portable travel crate provided and paid by us.

Our puppies are our children, we would never risk their health, we deliver them by the experts of pet shipping, and there is always someone with them during the flight. More than 300 of our puppies live all over the world already, we never had a single issue 🙂

Flying in an airplane is just as safe as traveling in a car and possibly less stressful then a long car ride. A lot of people think animals are drugged, put in a box, tossed around with the rest of the baggage or left in hot planes for hours etc.. If this was true then we would never ship our puppies!! After
more than 6 years of shipping puppies all over to the USA and worldwide, we have never had one problem besides normal flight delays and that is fairly rare as well.

Your puppy will not be stacked on top of suitcases. Airlines have special places for pets so that they will be protected from cargo and luggage. It is temperature controlled and pressurized just like the cabin. Puppies are never drugged.
They’re shipped in a new airline approved plastic crate in which they can easily look out on the sides and on the front, with food, water and a blanket. During layovers the puppies are taken off the plane and placed in a temperature controlled holding room until they can be put on their connecting flight.

Extra food is taped to the side of the crate in the event of an unexpected layover/delay. Shipping pups takes a lot of time and planning. Pups must be taken to the vet just before shipping to get a shipping health certificate.

Please check out this video.

Please send the rest of the amount to Stripe or PayPal latest 10 days prior the shipping!

As soon as the shipping company notifies us about the flight date, we'll contact you. You will know the exact date of arrival at least 10 days before it occurs. 

We have collected some amazing Frenchie products from Chewy that we recommend for your fur baby. Visit our webshop to find these and also read our blogpost about the topic!

A 3 months old puppy is about 8-10 lbs, and the estimate neck size is 13-14 inches. As he/she will get bigger, a 14-16 inches collar will soon be needed. I recommend you to only get the collar once you have your pup in your hands as you can easily buy a wrong size. The best is if you buy an adjustable harness, as it is much better for a Frenchie.

Here you can find posts of other Tomkings Frenchie Family members about accessories and harness:
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In some of the cases, you get an email or a call from the airline detailing the documents you should obtain, the place where you have to go to clear customs and where you then have to go to pick up your puppy. In other cases, though, you have to call the airline to get this piece of information. At Tom Kings Puppies we always send a detailed email to our clients on what to do.

You can usually check the map of the airport online and be prepared where to go and how much time it takes. Make sure you are looking for Cargo and not the normal Arrival section at the airport.

When you use a broker, he or she will communicate with customs in your name. The broker needs to prove to the customs that you are a legit person. That is why the broker asks you to fill the Power of Attorney document which includes your SSN and requests a copy of your valid photo ID.

I have to tell you, that our company handles your personal information on the highest level of security. As TomKings Ltd. is based in the European Union, we are legally required to follow the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) rules. Therefore, we never share your confidential information with anyone besides the broker.

That is one of the reasons why we always work with the same broker, Unity Customs Brokers. We have done this process over a hundred times without any issues, and we completely trust them.

You can bee sure that we are not only taking care of our puppies but also the data of our new family members as well! 🙂

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We do our best to arrange everything for you and inform you about all the steps. We send you a couple of emails with all the necessary pieces of info:

-In the first email we inform you about the arrival time, phone number of the airline, airwaybill number, flight numbers.
-In the second email, we inform you about the necessary items to take with you (including the documents).
-Photo of the puppy at the airport. (In some cases number 2 and 3 are included in one single email.)
-The day before the journey we email you the photocopy of all the necessary documents you will need at the airport. We cannot send it earlier as there is a last medical checkup after which we get the last stamp in the passport.

We are not just breeders who raise and sell dogs. 
Our goal is to have only healthy and happy puppies and satisfied adopters, who are more like our family than our buyers.
We are ready to do anything to reach that. 

We believe that one of the reasons that our Frenchies are so popular is that they a very well socialized.

We start socialize our puppies with other dogs and children as young as possible in order to have friendly and calm puppies.

Please watch this video of one of our Frenchies who lives in the States with his little buddy:
Watch it

Other dogs: 
Read it

Your puppy has been started on the following food: Hill's Chicken Puppy Medium** 
** You should continue this same food when you take your new puppy home to prevent any dietary upset such as vomiting, diarrhea, not eating, or general undue stress on your puppy. Later on you can gradually switch to another type of food. Please follow the instructions about the age-appropriate amount written on the bag  (adult size: 24 lbs = 11kg) . You can add water to the dry food as well. (please never exceed the advised amount, otherwise your puppy will have diarrhea). 
In case of diarrhea: please reduce the amount of his/her portion for 2 days. Or you can give her/him boiled rice and carrot. Similar to humans, the puppies' tummy needs a little remedy with a reduced amount of food. If the diarrhea continues after 2 days with the reduced amount of food then your puppy needs antibiotics and probiotics, so please visit your vet. At a young age the puppies' digestion is very sensitive, similar to human babies.

Before arrival