Thoughts from the Road

[spryng]

- Don't travel with cats.

- If you must travel with cats, accept that no, your cat will not shut up by the third minute, hour, or day. They will keep yowling even as they fight falling asleep. They will yowl in the hotel room. They will yowl in your sleep. You will hear phantom yowls even when there are no cats around.

- We are driving as fast as we can and taking as short of breaks as possible because a certain somecat thinks she is dying every time we slow down/stop the car/go to a rest stop and it is Very Stressful.

- A certain somecat also won't stop walking on top of people trying to sleep or meowing every 1-3min at night or otherwise making chaotic yet constant noise.

- A certain pregnant lady has had three nights of very little/very bad sleep and is not feeling favorable to a certain somecat.

- Do. Not. Travel. With. Cats.

- Next move, Kona is getting tranquilized.

Comments

[lantairvlea.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised to say that the boys actually travel much better than your cats.

[spryng.livejournal.com]

Hahah, that doesn't seem very hard.

[audesapere.livejournal.com]

Can you make a pit stop for some Feliway? Some cats, it really works on .

[spryng.livejournal.com]

We have feliway - the spray for their carriers and the car, and a diffuser for the hotel rooms. It helps one cat a little bit and the other not at all. We also had xanax prescribed by the vet, which again worked really well for one cat, but the other cat just fought it constantly. I think that cat just seriously needs to be sedated.

[touchofgr3y.livejournal.com]

Oh man, this is EXACTLY how my cat would be reacting to traveling. I hope you don't have too many more days on the road...

[spryng.livejournal.com]

Not many after that, and it got a little better. But now it's finally *over*.

[the-verb.livejournal.com]

Sounds like traveling with Faf, except he ultimately gives up. :/

You can ship Kona to us...

[spryng.livejournal.com]

I told Lady that I regretted not leaving her with you. :P
She's in her last hotel in LAnsing and now just has a 15min drive to the house when we close. We'll see how she does after that. I might still take you up on your offer...

[the-verb.livejournal.com]

I'm academically curious about how she'd do on, say, an overseas flight...