Travelling with a cat

This would work:

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AJK said:
They'll just put the animals in the back of a van, drive from A to B, and clean up later. Yes, they'll carry equipment for cleaning up, and they'll be basically trained in how to handle the animals, but it's not a pet chaffeur - it's a van full of cages.
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Did you actually look at the website? Where it shows the vehicles they use and lists the aspects of the service they provide?

Also to have DEFRA authorisation for domestic animals in a commercial vehicle has very strict standards. Its hard enough to get DEFRA authorisation for livestock sometimes
 
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Russinating said:
Whenever we travel with our car (1.5hrs to my mum's who looks after her) we just let her 'run free', whilst one of us sits in the back to stop her coming to the front. After 5 minutes she just sleeps on our lap or on the seat anyway. That and a litter tray in the boot (with any parcel shelf removed) will be fine.
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I think I'd go with this as well. Make sure you know where her litter tray is and bring cleaning/smelly stuff just in case.
 
My guy just sleeps whenever I get him in a car. Admittedly I've never done a 10 hour journey, the most I've done is 5 with him but after a few minutes he just lays down and sleeps the entire trip! I think he's more upset at me for waking him up at the other end and disturbing his nice long sleep!
 
Forgot to say (I try to forget anything to do with her!) but the Ex-Wife was in the Front passenger seat.

The cats just slept and occasionally eat the whole journey!, though one of them did take a dump on the back seat (instead of in the litter box) but I just pulled over to sort it, we weren't on the Motorway (Ex-Wife liked the Scenic route! which took aaaages!)

We spoke to a copper at a rest stop (about half way) and he didn't see any problems, as long as I wasn't alone in the car with the un-restrained cats!
 
Halestorm said:
Did you actually look at the website? Where it shows the vehicles they use and lists the aspects of the service they provide?
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Yes. Vehicles full of cages. And the services they provide - pickup, delivery, feeding, walking - are all very well... but none of that is likely to be "less" stressful for an animal than travelling in a family vehicle with people it knows, and still (presumably) being fed, walked and allowed out to use the loo on long journeys. I stand by what I said before - they're not pet chaffeurs, they're a cargo service - no doubt a competent and safe one, but still.
 
Get a cat harness and lead so if you need to jump out theres less chance of her darting out the door and running off, and if you really want to look mental can take her for a little walk in a layby or something...
 
We flew our cats back from Dubai (7 hour flight) and the advice is:

  • Don't give them food - they will be fine without
  • put some newspaper on the bottom of the cage incase they wee
  • put a blanket/towel they are familiar with in which they can snuggle up to
  • try and get a waterbowl which doesnt slosh around (high sided)
  • fill thr waterbowl with water the night before and freeze it - the water will melt throughout the journey so they always have something to drink and won't slosh.
  • obviously don't sedate them. It can be dangerous, and if they wake up in the middle of the journey they will be terrified not knowing where they are.
 
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Aren't you moving to France though OP?
A kitty courier would charge a bomb for that, not to mention an extra ferry/tunnel chargeontop of the one he is already paying for his car.
 
cheesyboy said:
I thought I'd heard it was illegal to have an unrestrained cat in a (moving) car.
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There is no such law but the Highway Code as a reasonable marker:

https://www.gov.uk/rules-about-animals-47-to-58/other-animals-56-to-58
When in a vehicle make sure dogs or other animals are suitably restrained so they cannot distract you while you are driving or injure you, or themselves, if you stop quickly. A seat belt harness, pet carrier, dog cage or dog guard are ways of restraining animals in cars.
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I don't know anyone who buckles in their dogs in the car.
 
I've done about 5 hours with our old cat sat on the top of my seat like a headrest. It was the only place in the car she didn't cry. Wouldn't go in a box or cage. New cat goes in a travel thing and is fine. Boys are so much easier.

Tricky bit is the litter issue innit.
 
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