Originally Posted by luv$

Now, we only have 2 cats, not 7! But this is what we did for our 4 day, 28 hour, 1600 mile drive:

First we got these sedative-type pills from the vet. It made their eyes water, and didn't knock em out, but more made them mellow. Kinda like valium I suppose. Cheap stuff too.

We got a giant steel kennel and put it in the suv. Put the back seats down and bungie corded the cat litter box (with a lid) to the cage and bungie corded the cage to the two front seats. This way we were always close to them at all times.

We then put a little fan that ran on the lighter plug thing (name escapes me) and put it between the two seats so they always had a breeze.

Then we put a blanket over the cage so they didn't get sick watching out the windows.

Then when we made pit stops, we had tupperware with their food and water.

We stopped at hotels where they allowed pets and let them run around the room.

It was a lot of extra work but worth it so they were comfortable and not stressed out.




If we do it all again next time we're going to give them sedatives, hire a moving company and fly with them. It's really, really stressful for them to have the environment change so much in such a short span of time.