✔ You can include a blanket in the carrier paper, shredded newspaper or puppy pee pad ✔ You must include appropriate and proportionate absorbent material e.g. ✘ Doors that have a 'twist clip' around the locking pins ✘ Restraint straps etc., securing a carrier ✘ Latches fixing the top and bottom of plastic carrier ✔ Cable ties must be attached to all four corners of the carrier's door to prevent it from being prised open by the animal ✔ Door hinge & locking pins on rigid plastic carriers must engage the carrier by at least 1.6cm beyond the horizontal extrusion above and below the door opening ✔ Minimum fasteners include one at each corner and at least 1 down each side, carriers longer than 60cm must have minimum of 2 fasteners each side ✔ The top and bottom of a plastic carrier must be fixed together using either 'bolt tightened' or another 2-step method e.g. ✘ Ventilation on the upper and lower sides of a carrier ✘ Entirely welded mesh, open wire, pop-up hatch style carriers ✔ Water container must be fitted in the carrier ✔ Wheels are permitted but must be removed or inoperable when carried Handles should allow easy carriage of the carrier ✔ Spacer bar must be fitted in the middle on three sides (not the door). ✔ The floor must be solid and leak-proof and the interior must be smooth with nothing sticking out ✔ The door must form the whole of one end of the carrier (can be sliding or hinged) and can't be accidentally opened ✔ The door must be open and covered with welded mesh, bars etc., nose and paw-proof ✔ Ventilation holes are only permitted on the upper half of three sides, excluding the door. ✔ Fibreglass, metal, rigid plastic, welded metal mesh, solid wood, and plywood carriers
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