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moving 2000 miles with 2 cats


Posted: Aug 6, 2013

I want to move 2000 miles and have 2 cats.  Do not want to subject them to air travel.  I know the vet can provide a sedative, but I don't know what to expect from it.  Will they still be awake but groggy, will they (hopefully) sleep for 8 hours a day?  If anyone has any experience with this, I would certainly appreciate input.  Thanks in advance!

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The vet provided me with a sedative for - owner of an old cat

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my cat when I moved long distance. If he had not given it to me for my cat, I would have needed a sedative just to make it through the trip because my cat lets out these awful howls when she is in the car. I got one of those premade litter boxes with the litter in it for travel because that was the biggest problem. My cat tends to hold her urine when she is stressed. She drank a lot of water on the trip so that helped. Good luck. Let us know how your trip turns out.

Kittehs - Edie

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I've traveled lots with my cats--five of them.

I got some inexpensive duffle bags and valerian root. (Stinks to high heaven, but the kittehs like it.)

A few days before the trip, I'd open the bags, crack a capsule or too of the v. root inside, and leave them here and there.

The night before depature, no food.

Water was left out until two hours before.

Kitteh box was left out until for any last-minute wees. (Scoopable litter--put into double-bagged plastic sacks for later.)

By the time we were ready to go, kittehs were used to duffles. Kittehs were packed out to the vehicle in said duffles and put in carrier(s).

Edie - love your writing style! nm - Freebie

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nm

My sister gave hers valerian, worked fine, they were fine. nm - Freebie

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