After PETA appeal, India eases norms for bringing back pets from Ukraine

The vaccination of the animal has to be within 12 months of travel, with the latest round not less than one month prior

The government on Tuesday issued a memorandum promising “a one-time relaxation measure” for bringing back pet dogs and cats along with stranded Indians who are being evacuated from war-hit Ukraine.

The measure by the government followed an appeal from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India after the non-profit noticed a video on social media on Saturday. In the video, Rishabh Kaushik, a final-year undergrad student of software engineering at the Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics in Ukraine, complained that he had been trying to contact Indian authorities but they repeatedly asked him for documents in order