How to Move a Cat or Dog

Pet Travel and Transport

By Diane Schmidt, About.com Guide

When you move a cat or a dog, you need to know what you are doing.  Your pet is more than a favorite piece of furniture. Pet travel is progressively becoming a more common part of life. More people are moving with their cat or dog across town, across the country, and even across international boundaries.  Pet transport takes planning. Travel with a pet over any kind of distance requires meticulous preparation.  Here's all you need to know about how to move your cat when you are moving house.

1. A Moving Experience with Pets

Moving pets can be trying, but here's a story of how one brave couple managed to move lock, stock and barrel across three countries crossing two international borders with two old dogs and an ancient cat.

2. Moving a Cat or a Dog

Pet travel is becoming more popular. Each year, thousands of people move to a new country, taking their pets with them. This process is a little more complicated than if you're moving from state to state, so make sure you allow enough time for research and preparation.

3. How to Fly a Cat or Dog

Our pets have moved several times and usually the moves are across the country or even to a new country. This means we normally fly them and have, over the years, come up with some tips on how to ensure they arrive safely.

4. Taking Pets on the Road

While some pets are excited by trips in the car, most pets associate it with vet visits or transfers to a boarding kennel. Even if your pet does like to travel, moving long-distance, over a few days is much harder than you've anticipated.

5. Pet Shipping Tips for Moving your Cat

Pet shipping and moving is always a challenge, particularly for cats; unlike dogs, cats bond with their environment and have a harder time adapting to a new home. We have five cats who all hate moving, but they don't really have any say in the matter. Our next move will see us driving at least two of our cats through the mountains, while the other three fly.

6. Settle Pets In after a Move

While moving is very stressful for the two-legged members of your family, pets find it even more difficult to adjust to new surroundings after a move.  Here is how you can help them feel at home quickly.

7. Tips for Transporting Pets

Transporting pets to a new state or province requires a lot of planning and research. For instance, in Canada, the major national airline recently stopped transporting pets. This severely limits the ability to move a domestic animal across the country.

Here's help on how to prepare early to allow time to arrange safe transportation for your animal family members.

8. Interviewing a New Vet

Finding a new vet is always a challenge. We've moved a lot over the years and have always taken our pets with us. And since we're both animal lovers and with a background in shelter and rescue work, we tend to adopt the pets that no one else wants; most of our animals have major health problems running from FIV, to acute renal failure, to a spinal cord injury that doesn't allow our Himalayan to express his own bladder. It gets a little crazy, but we love them all and would never think of leaving them behind.

Source: http://moving.about.com/od/movingwithpet1/tp/How-To-Move-A-Cat-Or-Dog.htm

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