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Hi all
Not sure if this is the right spot for this post...but here goes anyway!
I am a UK resident, currently living in Belgrade. I will shortly be traveling back with my two inherited Serbian cats. One is 6 years old, found (almost dead!) as a kitten, and is blind. She has never really left the flat. The second, a sprightly two-year-old, spends half the time in our flat and the other half in the courtyard outside. Both have been sterilized and received all the necessary jabs.
In 5 weeks' time, my wife and I will be traveling with them (they will be in smallish cat boxes) back to the UK. The journey involves a taxi to Belgrade airport, then a flight to Paris - both cats will be with us in the cabin. We will then take a taxi from Pairs, enter the UK via the Channel Tunnel, and travel to the southwest of England where the cats will be introduced to their new home. We envisage the whole thing taking 16 -18 hours.
The journey will be stressful, but we want to minimize the stress for our cats. Here are our ideas:
- get the cats used to being in their boxes, with comfort blankets and familiar smells inside.
- build up 'trial journeys' with them in their boxes - a walk around the block; a short car journey; a car journey to the airport, and a walk around the airport ( all this is quite simple to do)
- sedate the cats (something in their food) before the journey
- leash train the younger cat so that I can walk him around the garden when we get to our new place.
I just wondered if any of you have any ideas, that we might not have considered? Any advice from anyone who has done this sort of thing would be most grateful.
Thanks
James
Not sure if this is the right spot for this post...but here goes anyway!
I am a UK resident, currently living in Belgrade. I will shortly be traveling back with my two inherited Serbian cats. One is 6 years old, found (almost dead!) as a kitten, and is blind. She has never really left the flat. The second, a sprightly two-year-old, spends half the time in our flat and the other half in the courtyard outside. Both have been sterilized and received all the necessary jabs.
In 5 weeks' time, my wife and I will be traveling with them (they will be in smallish cat boxes) back to the UK. The journey involves a taxi to Belgrade airport, then a flight to Paris - both cats will be with us in the cabin. We will then take a taxi from Pairs, enter the UK via the Channel Tunnel, and travel to the southwest of England where the cats will be introduced to their new home. We envisage the whole thing taking 16 -18 hours.
The journey will be stressful, but we want to minimize the stress for our cats. Here are our ideas:
- get the cats used to being in their boxes, with comfort blankets and familiar smells inside.
- build up 'trial journeys' with them in their boxes - a walk around the block; a short car journey; a car journey to the airport, and a walk around the airport ( all this is quite simple to do)
- sedate the cats (something in their food) before the journey
- leash train the younger cat so that I can walk him around the garden when we get to our new place.
I just wondered if any of you have any ideas, that we might not have considered? Any advice from anyone who has done this sort of thing would be most grateful.
Thanks
James