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Posted by Sara2 on 5/13/2008, 8:53 pm, in reply to "Re: Anyone have ideas of transporting animals across the country??"
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I feel compelled to relate a traveling-with-cats story. In 2004, I went to Washington DC to work for a few months. Lucius was 4 months old when I went, and I was in no position to take him with me, but I didn't want to live alone, so Robert and I drove up from Atlanta with both cats in the car. It's a 10 hr drive. We drove up on a Saturday all the way to the Northern Virginia suburbs of DC. The cats were fine all the way up. Alice had a grand time watching the traffic out the window like a dog. Pancho was a little less happy but did ok. (We set up a litter box in the back seat floor board and both cats used it during our 10-hr drive.) Everything was fine until about 30 minutes before we got to the hotel to spend the night before moving me into my temp apartment Sunday morning, Pancho decided she was tired of the car ride, and went under the driver's seat and started yowling. We rode the rest of the way to the hotel that way, and when we got to the hotel, we thought she might have to spend the night in the car because we couldn't get her out from under the seat. I went in with Alice, and about 10 minutes later, Robert came in with Pancho. He'd managed to pull her out. The room the Holiday Inn Express put us in was "pet friendly." It not only hugged the elevator shaft, it was a converted maintenance/janitor room, and it still had a drain in the floor -- and the entire floor tilted toward the drain. So, we get settled in for the night, get in bed, and the cats go BANANAS because they've been shut up in the car for 10 hrs. The way the room was oriented, we were in a king-sized bed, and at the foot of the bed was a highboy (a tall dresser). The cats spent the ENTIRE night leaping up onto the highboy and then jumping down onto the bed -- dive-bombing us. And they meowed and chased each other and generally had a ball. All night.
I will never travel with cats again. And I will certainly never treat another cat to a night in a hotel!!
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