An emergency list is intensely local. It assumes the person who can reach your home lives streets away, the vet is a short drive off, and your phone number works exactly as dialed. An international move quietly invalidates all three assumptions while leaving the document looking perfectly tidy. Before she travels, rebuild the list for the life she is moving to, in two stages: first prepare the destination version while the current one still functions, then switch over only when each new entry has been confirmed in place. The five entries themselves do not change in kind, only in who fills them and where they are.
Your Own Numbers Across Two Countries
Begin with the entries that follow you. Your mobile plus a second number for you sounds simple until dialing codes, a new local number at the destination and an old number being cancelled enter the picture. Decide early whether your current mobile survives the move, and write every number in full international format so a caller in either country can dial it exactly as printed. Your second number might be a partner's phone, a new destination number, or a work line that persists through the relocation. Test both numbers from a phone set up as a destination caller would use, because a number that works domestically can still fail when dialed with a country code in front of it.
Whoever is currently caring for her also needs care during the move itself. If she travels with you, that entry remains you throughout, with your travel-day contact route noted clearly. If a friend, sitter or transport arrangement covers any leg of the journey, the carer entry must reflect who physically holds her on that day, and the people at each end must know when responsibility passes over. A list that still names you as carer while she is in someone else's care mid-journey is a gap an emergency would find immediately.
Rebuilding the Nearby Person and the Vet Layer Abroad
The trusted nearby person who can get into your home cannot be carried across a border. A neighbor in the old street, however willing, cannot reach a home in another country, so this entry has to be recruited again at the destination: a new neighbor, a colleague nearby, a building manager, or the sitter you will use there. Until you know people locally, a letting agent or relocation contact may hold access temporarily, but name someone real rather than leaving the line blank, and confirm she or he holds a key or a reliable way in. This is often the last entry completed, so track it as an open task rather than forgetting it among the packing.
The veterinary entries need the same rebuild. Your usual vet becomes a practice near the new home, chosen and ideally contacted before arrival, and the out-of-hours service becomes whatever overnight arrangement that practice uses, which may be structured very differently from what you are used to. Find out how emergency care is reached at the destination, what number is dialed, and whether the service sits at the practice or at a separate hospital. Write the destination address of the practice into her record as well, since a panicked drive benefits from more than a phone number.
Keeping the Old List Alive Until the New One Is Real
Sequence is the discipline that makes this update safe. Do not delete the old nearby person, the old vet or the old out-of-hours service until their replacements exist and answer. During the overlap weeks you may effectively carry two lists, the current one and the destination one, clearly labeled, and that untidiness is safer than a single list that is wrong in both places. Once you have arrived, the nearby person has a key, the destination practice knows her name and the new numbers have been test-dialed, retire the old version everywhere it lives, including copies held by sitters and family. Pet Passport with KinsLe carries the finished five entries across the move in one place, so the list that survives the journey is the destination one, complete and dialed-in.