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Two homes and cats
Me and my partner both work from home and are considering buying a
second home (actually a flat) which we intend to travel between on a weekly basis - one week in one place another in the other. All we need to work is an internet connection so it would be quite feasible. However, we have two cats. So we want to know if they could get used to travelling. I've searched using google and found many people saying that they have had no problem travelling between homes with cats. No one has said whether it is something cats can get used to, though. From experience of taking our cats to the vets we know that they don't travel well. After a few trips would they get accustomed to it? The trip would be around two hours. When taking them to the vets they usually whine throughout the five minute journey, would they do that for two hours every time we travelled? If so are there alternatives? cheers Darren |
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HI, we had a cat a few years ago that would travel with us to the beach
house every time we went, he was fine there, but he did wine on the trip, but not the whole trip! I think that it will depend a lot on your kitty, but it is worth a try. Good luck! |
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Cats a resilient at adapting to situations but in their own time. Yes they
are going to take a while to get used to the idea of travel and the new environment. YOU have to figure out what it takes to make the traveling more habitable for them you know your cats best. IT is going to take some time and spoiling them more than usual. All are cats are used to travel they are a little fussy at first but than they want to be spoiled as usual. We don't do much traveling with them any more they are getting up in age and to many risk traveling anymore. wrote in message ups.com... Me and my partner both work from home and are considering buying a second home (actually a flat) which we intend to travel between on a weekly basis - one week in one place another in the other. All we need to work is an internet connection so it would be quite feasible. However, we have two cats. So we want to know if they could get used to travelling. I've searched using google and found many people saying that they have had no problem travelling between homes with cats. No one has said whether it is something cats can get used to, though. From experience of taking our cats to the vets we know that they don't travel well. After a few trips would they get accustomed to it? The trip would be around two hours. When taking them to the vets they usually whine throughout the five minute journey, would they do that for two hours every time we travelled? If so are there alternatives? cheers Darren |
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I have friends that take their 2 cats regularly to visit family members,
about a 4 hour drive. The 2 cats do great on the drive and at the other house. My friends' only complaint is that it never fails, 10 minutes into the trip, one of the cat has to use the litter box and usually drops a stinkbomb! Sue wrote in message ups.com... Me and my partner both work from home and are considering buying a second home (actually a flat) which we intend to travel between on a weekly basis - one week in one place another in the other. All we need to work is an internet connection so it would be quite feasible. However, we have two cats. So we want to know if they could get used to travelling. I've searched using google and found many people saying that they have had no problem travelling between homes with cats. No one has said whether it is something cats can get used to, though. From experience of taking our cats to the vets we know that they don't travel well. After a few trips would they get accustomed to it? The trip would be around two hours. When taking them to the vets they usually whine throughout the five minute journey, would they do that for two hours every time we travelled? If so are there alternatives? cheers Darren |
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I saw a tv program about a couple who went to their second home on week-ends
with a toddler and a black cat. They packed up their stuff, put the cat into his travel case and off they went. Cats aren't stupid. When they realize that every car trip doesn't end at the vet they adjust very well to the second home and the travel. -- Barb Of course I don't look busy, I did it right the first time. |
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wrote in message ups.com... Thanks for all the comments. The consensus seems to be that the cats will become accustomed to travelling to some extent. We have two. I wonder if investing in a large carrier that fits both in would be worthwhile. I don't think leaving them at home to be fed and looked in on would be satisfactory really. And the only other option seems to be to ditch the whole idea. I have wanted to say, since I first read your post, that it sounds like a really unpleasant way to live, to me. I would not put myself through it, let alone my cats! But, that said, we are all entitled to our tastes. (I might feel differently if the two places are equally wonderful, or there was some other great incentive for me to be in both, rather than in one more than the other. But then, I am in my nesting phase. I do like to travel, but every single week???) |
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Whether you think it's an unpleasant way to live is not the issue.
People travel two hours every day to and from work. In fact I used to! So I don't see a problem travelling two hours once a week. We have other reasons though. We are currently trying to sell our house in a very slow market so we've decided to get a flat somewhere we like for this summer and when we finally sell our house we intend to look for a new one while living in the flat thereby avoiding the chain. We previously lost a house because buyers pulled out. Until we do sell this house we'll travel between them because we have reasons to be in this area some of the time. But that wasn't what my original post was about, or I wouldn't have posted it in this ng. Darren |
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wrote in message oups.com... Whether you think it's an unpleasant way to live is not the issue. People travel two hours every day to and from work. In fact I used to! So I don't see a problem travelling two hours once a week. We have other reasons though. We are currently trying to sell our house in a very slow market so we've decided to get a flat somewhere we like for this summer and when we finally sell our house we intend to look for a new one while living in the flat thereby avoiding the chain. We previously lost a house because buyers pulled out. Until we do sell this house we'll travel between them because we have reasons to be in this area some of the time. But that wasn't what my original post was about, or I wouldn't have posted it in this ng. Touchy, touchy! |
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wonder if investing in a large carrier that fits both in would be
worthwhile. I would put them in separate carriers if I were you; even though they get along, sometimes if a cat is nervous and is in a cage with another cat, one or both may get a bit aggressive and take it out on the other. I used to work in a shelter and sometimes two cats that came in together would be put together in one cage (large) and not get along anymore. You should find a couple of crates large enough to put their litter box in with them. I don't think there's anything wrong at all with travelling with them, they'll get used to it once they've done it a few times. I know someone who used to take his cats to his cottage about an hour and a half away each weekend in the summer, they were fine once they realized they weren't going to the vet! -- Message posted via http://www.catkb.com |
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