Phoenixpower -> RE: What is your cat doing? (8/20/2014 1:15:25 PM)
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ORIGINAL: smileforme50 Question....I am working on plans to ( I hope...fingers crossed!!) move to Florida in about 6 months. Have any of you moved with your cat(s) a long distance (in this case, over 950 miles)? How did you move them? How did they tolerate the move? This is either going to be a 17+ hour drive, or we're going to have to stop overnight somewhere on the way. Any suggestions for making this less traumatic for everyone involved?? When I moved from England to Germany with my fur gang (the drive was about 10 hours) they were all placed in a large cage in the car...so they could still walk around in that one and were not stuck in just a cat carrier....though the height was lowered to half its height as otherwise nothing would have had fitted into that car anymore except that cage... I have had about 4 layers of cat beddings in there, so if any of them (I had 5 cats in there) would have used it as a toilet, I could have gotten rid of the top layer somewhere at a parking space bin, if it would have been necessary....though all 5 of them could handle it, not to use their cage as a litter box... Spicy (who unfortunately vanished a year after that move) did miaow sometimes during that drive but all others were pretty quiet...Curry was placed in a cat carrier on my lap for the first 2-3 hours, somewhere in france I did add him to the cage then (as on hometurf it was too risky for me to try to get him in, as there he would have been too strong not to get in there, whereas after 2-3 hours drive, he was too intimidated from that drive, to dare to run off...also Pepper, a rather quiet and easy to handle cat, almost managed to fight herself off my arms, when I brought her to our car in the UK....so I almost lost her on there and had to pin her to the ground once and pick her up again, to manage to get a better hold of her again...) Anyhow, they did in my view astonishingly well for that long journey and over here I never was given the option to drug any of them....but then, we also don't declaw cats, so there the law might be different... Anyhow, good luck with your move...
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