moving house....... with a cat!

I have moved a number of times with cats, most recently being December with my 11 year old cat.

We always do not allow our cat outside for at least 6 weeks. 2 weeks is not enough I think. Then after 6 weeks allow the cat outside for a short time, but make sure she/he has not been fed, so that when you want the cat back in maybe 15 mins later - you get the cat fopod and the cat will easily come back inside.
Do this for a week.
 
just fyi there's a fair chance he won't like the lead if he's not been on it before - ours would basically crawl along the floor - took a few attempts but he got used to it.

Ours is an indoor cat so no issues with him trying to keep him from escaping, but we did have him in the cattery so he wouldn't freak out with all the packing and stuff.
 
Keep moggy in for as long as you can stand the howling! Otherwise, as mentioned, they will wander.

He'll also be very spooked around the new place so give him lots of quiet dark places he can hide, and maybe somewhere up high too just so he can keep himself out of the way while he takes everything in. It'll take him a few weeks but eventually he'll become braver and start to explore the house.

Our cats have always spent the first few weeks of somewhere new under a bed, even have to feed them under there!

Hopefully now, at his age he wont be too bothered and will just want somewhere to spend 23 out of 24 hours of the day sleeping anyway :D
 
2 weeks of endless crying, if like me you work from home it gets annoying but I do equally see the cat's point of view, mine actually managed to squeeze through a small gap in a second storey window and did a runner a few hours before I was about to let him out anyway.

He came back two days later perfectly happy, that amount of time away from home was perfectly normal for him though so we weren't too worried.
 
Ours was pretty spooked by everything, spent a lot of his first couple of days impossibly squeezed in to the gap behind the wood burner. We didn't keep him in for more than a couple of days. He wouldn't do his business indoors so we let him out and boom, business time. It's a long, fenced garden with a huge field at the end, so he had quite significant boundaries which may have helped. It was also about 200 miles from his previous home so there wasn't much chance of him navigating his way back after the 4hr drive! Then again, aside from when he came on walks with us for about half a mile, we never saw him further than 25 metres from the old house, so he isn't the sort to go far on his own.
 
i have moved a number of times with cats and had no issues.

kept them in for the 2 weeks and that's all i did. i have 2 of them and had no issues with either finding there way home
 
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