Most DIY pet relocations from the United States to Australia fail for a boring reason: people treat the process like a packing list.

The requirements live in different places — the federal import rules, the approved-country list, the vet paperwork, the airline crate rules. Each page assumes you already know which step is the bottleneck. None of them say: do this first, or the next test is invalid.

If you book the flight before the sequence is locked, you are improvising with a live animal.

That sequence is what we publish. One problem, referenced, in order.

The guide comes with a free timeline chart and a printable checklist: the same sequence, in a form you can pin to the fridge.