Need to move your pet to and from Denver, Colorado (DEN)?

Our Denver pet shipping services include:

• Door-to-door transportation, both international and domestic
• Travel consultation, planning, and flight reservations
• Coordination and communication for health requirements and documentation
• Local pet taxi service to and from the airport, your home, veterinarian or kennel/boarding facility – available in the Denver area as well as throughout the surrounding areas
• USDA endorsement of health certificate
• Pre-completion of the correct health certificate for country of import
• Local and long-distance ground transport delivery to and from DEN
• Meet at airport facility for flight check in when pet pickup is not needed
• Customs clearance in Denver and delivery to your home
• Airline approved travel crate that meets all IATA and USDA regulations; provided with bowls, stickers, absorbent bedding, personalized labels, identification and emergency notification instructions
• Boarding reservations

With smaller municipal and domestic airports served by airplanes that do not have pressurized cargo holds for live animals, this may be the closest airport we can get your pet to with flights available. For such situations, Transcontinental Pet Movers can help arrange pet-friendly land transportation from your home to this airport or straight to your destination. We can arrange ground transport for pets traveling to or from Wyoming, Utah, Nebraska & Kansas.

Shipping a pet to or from Denver

If your pet flies in the cargo hold, put food and water in the kennel and follow the airline’s specific requirements, as Denver International Airport advises. Some airlines restrict pet travel above 85 degrees or below 45 degrees. Read more on cargo hold safety for pets.

Alaska Air Cargo operates a Denver cargo station at 7654 Undergrove Street, Denver, CO 80249, with Pet Connect, its live-animal service.

Alaska Air Cargo does not accept inbound or outbound animal shipments in Denver above 85°F during its summer season, which generally runs May 1 through October 16, with exceptions possible, under its Summer 2026 embargo. From October 1, 2026 at 12:01 a.m., Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air no longer accept certain short-nosed dog and cat breeds in the cargo hold (notice on short-nosed breeds). If your pet has a short nose, read our guide to flying with snub-nosed pets.

United Airlines no longer lets you check pets through PetSafe. Pets can fly in cargo only when traveling with certain active-duty military or State Department employees. Read our airline pet policy guide to compare how the airlines carry pets.

The Colorado Department of Agriculture requires cats and dogs entering the state to have a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection (CVI) from an accredited veterinarian within 30 days, plus proof of current rabies vaccination for cats and dogs over 3 months of age. Under the state’s New World screwworm emergency rule, adopted in June 2026, a pet coming from an infested zone also needs approval and a Certificate for Movement from the origin state’s animal health official, submitted with the CVI.

Transcontinental Pet Movers is a professionally run, dedicated service for international and domestic pet moving. We’re IATA, IPATA, USDA licensed and CBP Bonded.

To ensure your pet is well taken care of, we are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.