Table 2.

Illegal pet trade data collection and analysis at cross-border level.

Illegal pet trade data	Units	Before	After	Note
Countries of origin	Number	Unkonwn*	13	Ukraine, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Poland, Bulgaria, Austria, Slovenja, Czech Republic, Serbia, Bosnia, Russia, China.
Events caught (Dec 2017–July 2020)	Number	Unkonwn*	40	Two peaks with four events per month in May 2018 and Sept 2019.
Pet species prevalence (Dec 2017–July 2020)	%	Unkonwn*	Dogs, cats, birds	In order of decreasing prevalence.
Puppy's dogs and cats confiscated (Dec 2017–July 2020)	Number	Unkonwn*	652	Maltese, French bulldog, Golden retriever, Terriers and Chihuahua puppies for dog breeds while Scottish folds for cats breeds show the higher prevalence among confiscated pets.
Sanitary quarantine on the total number of pets	Number	Unkonwn*	77.5%	Health documents or identification or country of origin data were missing.
Number of pets tested every year	Number	Unkonwn*	All	Until Dec. 2020.
Diseases that are looked for through laboratory testing	Category	Unkonwn*	Zoonotic and notifiable diseases	Among zoonotic diseases laboratories are focusing especially on Salmonellosis, Chlamydiosis, Rabies, endo-ectoparasites, and other notifiable diseases.
Illegal pet trade tendency indicator	Trend	Unkonwn*	Light increase	Very difficult to assess because at present many illegal pet transactions are placed via Internet and many pets are delivered directly from traders to buyers without any intermediate.

^*A comprehensive shared database at cross-border level was not available before the establishment of the Bio-crime program.