Owning an animal here runs on a short list of things the city expects of you — a permanent identity, a rabies record, a building that allows pets, and a routine built around the heat. This page puts them in the order they actually happen.
It is easy to arrive at this in the wrong order — the animal comes home first, and the building's rules, the foreign vaccination book and the summer walking hours are discovered afterwards. None of it is difficult. It is a sequence, and it is easier followed before the animal is on your sofa.
The veterinary spine of that sequence is short: a microchip, because every later document points at that number, and core vaccines including a rabies vaccination that has not lapsed. With those in hand, pet registration becomes administration rather than a problem. If you are still choosing an animal, adopting a pet here is where the same file begins from zero; if you ever leave, the same records feed the travel certificate.
The other half — application forms, municipal fees, community and tenancy rules — is not ours to state, and it changes from year to year and from one emirate to the next. Check the current requirements with the authority itself, not with a figure printed on a clinic page. What we do at Petbook in Al Quoz 3 is the veterinary half: the examination, the chip, the vaccines, the certificates, and a record that keeps up with the dates.
A readable microchip and an in-date rabies certificate. Registration and travel paperwork are built on these two; check what boarding, grooming or your building asks for with each of them.
From May to September the pavement decides when a dog can be walked. It is a difference you feel every day, and it has no equivalent in a temperate climate.
Communities and tenancy contracts set their own conditions on keeping animals. Read yours before you commit to a pet, not after.
We hold the chip number, the vaccination dates and the certificates on your pet's digital file.
Reviews from our public Google profile — not written by us.
I highly recommend this veterinary clinic! They truly care about pets as if they were their own babies. Every time my cats have been sick, the team has always followed up to check on their recovery & see if they needed anything else. That level of care & compassion means so much to me 🤍
I had a wonderful experience at Petbook Veterinary Clinic in Al Quoz with my 9-month-old male Turkish Angora cat, Meiko. A special thank you to Dr. Emad and Miss Charrie for their excellent care, kindness, patience, and professionalism.
I had all three of my cats vaccinated at this clinic, and I couldn't be happier with the service. The veterinarians and staff were very professional, gentle, and caring with my cats, making the entire experience smooth and stress-free.
The veterinary half of this page rests on two published prices. A consultation is AED 120 — the examination behind a health check or a new-pet assessment. The AED 199 first vaccination package includes the microchip and passport alongside the examination, first vaccine and deworming, and the AED 199 annual package carries the rabies vaccine and its certificate. A single viral vaccine on its own is AED 80. Municipal application fees are not ours and are not listed here. Everything the clinic itself publishes sits on our vet prices page, and anything without a published price we quote on WhatsApp.
The full physical examination a health record is written from.
120 AED
Includes the microchip and passport — the two things everything else is filed against.
199 AED
Six steps, and the first happens before you own a pet at all.
Buildings and communities in Dubai set their own conditions on keeping animals, and some restrict size or species.
A high-energy dog in a tower flat, through a summer running from May to September, is a harder life than it sounds. Coat, size and exercise needs matter more here than in most cities.
The chip number is the reference every later document points at: vaccination certificate, registration record, travel file. Nothing is tied to your pet until it exists.
The vet reads what the animal has already had, then sets the schedule. Rabies is the vaccination whose date matters most on a pet's file — confirm the current requirement with whichever authority, kennel or destination you are dealing with.
With a chip and an in-date rabies certificate in your pet's name, the application is paperwork. The application itself is handled by the authority for your emirate — start from its own current published requirements.
One annual examination, the booster on time, parasite prevention through the warm months, and contact details kept current against the chip. That is the whole list.
Real photographs from our clinic — the dogs and cats whose chip numbers, vaccination dates and certificates sit on our records.
The first vaccination package covers the veterinary side: the examination, the first vaccine, deworming, and the microchip and passport that every later document is filed against. The authority sets the rest of what an application asks for. The annual package at the same price carries the rabies vaccine and certificate. You take the paperwork home; we keep the digital copy and watch the dates.
Advice written for London or Manila gets you most of the way, then fails on the parts that matter here.
Indoor life on air conditioning, with a balcony instead of a garden, is common here — less movement and less stimulation come with it.
Street rescues, animals flown in with a family, and dogs rehomed when someone leaves the country. Each arrives with a different amount of verifiable history.
Fine dust, months of air conditioning and little ventilation are part of the environment a coat and skin live in here. Coats here need brushing and washing on a regular schedule.
Chip, vaccine course, deworming, neutering and regular grooming all land inside twelve months. Budget for the year, not the appointment — our published prices make that possible.
Where a dog may be walked, and on what lead, is not uniform across the city — check your community's and the authority's current rules. Confirm rather than assume.
From May to September, midday walks are unsafe and pavement burns paws. The walking hours move to early morning and late evening for months at a time.
The application itself belongs to the authority for your emirate and its requirements are revised — start from its own current published rules before you apply. We issue the veterinary documents: the chip, the vaccines and the certificates.
This is a practical order, not a legal timetable. The administrative deadlines belong to the authority; the medical schedule is set by the vet after reading what your animal has already had.
Each of these is avoidable, and each one costs more to fix than to prevent.
It runs on two tracks, and only one of them is ours. The veterinary track is a microchip and a rabies vaccination that is still in date, with certificates issued in your pet's name by a licensed vet — that is what we do at the clinic, inside the <strong>AED 199</strong> vaccination package. The administrative track is the application itself, and the channel differs depending on where you live, so start with the authority for your emirate. Fees and forms are theirs and they are revised, so read their current list rather than a summary written a year ago.
The legal position and its conditions are set by the authority — read its current published rules rather than a clinic summary. What we can tell you is the veterinary side: identification and rabies vaccination are what we issue, and they are what a pet's file is built on. Separately, your building or community can set its own conditions, and some do not allow dogs at all. So whether it is possible for you depends on your tenancy contract as much as on the rules. Check both before you commit to an animal.
Get the veterinary evidence in hand first, because the application will ask for it: a microchip, an in-date rabies vaccination and the certificates that go with them. We issue those at Petbook and keep a digital copy on your pet's file. The application itself — the channel, the forms and the fee — is set by Dubai Municipality and changes, so submit through their own current process. Bring us what your pet already has and we will read it during the consultation and list what is missing.
That is a question for the municipality itself, not for a clinic. Ask them directly — contact points and procedures change, and a clinic page is not the right source for them. What we can tell you is the veterinary side of adoption: a shelter or street animal may arrive with no verifiable history, and then the file starts from zero — examination, microchip, vaccines, certificate — the same first visit any new pet needs.
There is no figure we would repeat as fact, because reliable public counts of cats and dogs in the city are not something a veterinary clinic can verify. What we can tell you is the veterinary side: what a new arrival needs on its first visit — an examination, a microchip, the vaccines it is missing, and the certificates that go with them.
Tell us what your pet needs — we confirm on WhatsApp right away. Emergencies are answered 24/7 on +971 54 888 3686.
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