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traveling across country with a cat..
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My husband and I are moving from California to Delaware in about a month and we have a cat. I really do not know what to do about bathroom breaks and everything since you can't stop and let your cat out on a lease to go potty. We will be traveling 8 days total which means driving about 6 hours a day. We plan to put the seats down in the suv for him to go where he wants but also have his cage there too if he would like. Should I invest in a small litter box to put in the corner of the car? Any advice would be very much appreciated! Thanks!
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Re: traveling across country with a cat..
We did Texas to Washington last year w/ two cats and two dogs. We sedated the kitties (prescription from vet), had them in their cages and disposable litter boxes. We would set up the litter box in the back of the jeep and let them out of their cages at our midday stop. They usually held it until we stopped for the night and had them in the hotel room.
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We did CA to MN and MN to AZ, and after college I did OK to CA, all with a cat, so I feel like an expert, lol. We got a small dog crate (used, so it was cheap) and my cat was happy to sleep the entire way. The first trip we tried to offer him his litter box at rest stops but he would never use it. We stopped offering it to him and he was fine until the hotel each night (and we traveled at least 8 hours a day). I highly recommend keeping him in a crate of some kind and this is why -- my sister did a big move with her cat and they had to stop and the cat darted out of the door before they could stop her. She ran for some woods and my sister thought she would never see her cat again. Thankfully after much searching they found her cat and were able to scoop her up, so there is a happy ending to this story, but I will never travel with out crating my cat.
It depends on your cat as to whether he will be OK with traveling... my cat always settled down within a few minutes (but more like 30 minutes the first time we started driving). Some cats do need drugs to calm down and that is something you can talk to your vet about if you think it's necessary.
One more thought - if you had the room for a big enough crate, you could get a small litter box and put it in the crate. That way you wouldn't have to worry about whether or not he had to "go."
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This. We used a medium dog crate in the back of my jeep for our 2 cats. We put a small box of litter, and some towel/blankets to sleep on in too. They did great like that. At rest stops I'd offer them water but they weren't really interested in it.
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We did MD to CA and CA to MD to OH with three cats. We put a barrier up in the back of our Jetta wagon, and set up a cat area. We put a cat carrier in there without its door, so they could have privacy. We put a litterbox there with an absorbent thing in the bottom (I think it was a puppy pee pad) and a sprinkling of that crystal litter. We put out a water dish and a little bit of food too. We fastened things down with bungee cords...nothing was going anywhere.
It worked really well. I will say though, that the cats only used the litterbox once (and we were driving 12- to 14-hour days. And that once was poop. And I had to stop immediately to scoop it, because yeah.
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