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[scottobear]

I am *so* ready for a road trip. I need to find a willing compatriot to drive.

Maybe the little brother.

We can take care of some business in a few misc. states that have needed our attention for quite some time now.

Say, how do I take a cat on a road trip? That's not feasible, is it? Nuts.

Ok, I need to take a long walkabout this weekend. Those misc state business folk get a brief reprieve.

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road tripping with the purrmonster

[sebab.livejournal.com]

Advice for transporting Newt on a road trip (yes, it can be done):

Get the biggest carrier you can find and which fits in the vehicle, and pad it with a hand towel or two, preferable one that the cat's slept on for a few days before the trip. Also get a plastic sealable container (like rubbermaid) into which you can put litter, as large as possible. Buy Newt a harness (NOT collar) and leash, and get him used to them beforehand. Keep the harness on him for the entire trip and make sure you have the leash on whenever there's even a possibility he could get free.

Offer the 'litter box' at every rest stop and set it up each night wherever you stay, along with the food and water. Again, MAKE SURE you have Newt on a leash when you offer the little box or any other time he's out of the carrier.

I tried this with reasonable success on a 1000-mile trip in a U-Haul from Silicon Valley to Seattle, and the only real discomfort the cat seemed to experience was during the mountainous parts. Admittedly I was pretty distressed too :)

Good luck if you do this. Some vets will prescribe a tranquilizer you can give your cat, but we went without any such thing and all was well.

Re: road tripping with the purrmonster

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Hey! how totally great!

Thank you so much for the reccomendation and the hope that I can take the little beastie with!

Re: road tripping with the purrmonster

[sebab.livejournal.com]

NP :)

Oh, also... take him for a short drive just to make sure he can handle it, if you decide to do this? For both his *and* your sakes...

Re: road tripping with the purrmonster

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

absolutely... going to port st lucie soon (about a four hour trip) so that will be a good test, I think.

Re: "On the road, again..."

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Newt's pretty cool with the car, at least short term... (I used to take him to work, back and forth, every day... the first 3 months. He's quite tolerant.) a catnip trip might do the trick, too! what a good idea!

[risingentropy.livejournal.com]

in my experience, younger cats (which you happen to have) like the car a whole freakin lot more than older ones.

so, you, uh, wouldn't happen to be driving to buffalo to rescue me, would ya?

wink, wink.

oh, my.

Buffalo rescue.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Newt enjoys the car, but I've never had him in there for more than an hour or so. But, I'm investigating options on how to do it comfortably for us.

Buffalo could be an option.. hard to say.. I was shooting for going up the east coast... not sure to what extent or anything yet. anything is possible!

Re: Buffalo rescue.

[risingentropy.livejournal.com]

Sad but true: I've seen the ocean once.

So I'm not particularly coastal.

But campus has a big pond called 'Lake LaSalle,' and it has an island and ducks. My little landlocked friend who came to visit found it amusing.

She's sad about the lack of water, we grew up on Lake Ontario. I know I have great lakes somewhere around me, so, even though I can't see them, I'm not worried.

Um. I'm going to stop rattling now.
Okay.

Re: Buffalo rescue.

[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Well, there are no mountains here, save for landfills.


I miss those, hiking 'em, terribly. part of the travel, I think.