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My friend has a cat question
polonca12000 wrote:
Susan M wrote: If any of you have any ideas, she'd be most grateful. Here is her e-mail to me: We are about to move to Iowa from north of Seattle, about 2000 miles or minimum 3 1/2 days of driving. We are driving a car and a van and towing a third car. We have 2 drivers and 2 kids and working A/C in all cars. We have 2 cats. One is about 2 1/2 years old and very active. The other one is about 11 years old and not nearly so active. We do not know what is the best way to move our kitties to Iowa. It looks like there are three options: 1. Put them in cat carriers and take them with us. Cons: They could escape at some point (both are chipped, but ...). We might have problems finding hotels that accept pets: we've been told "just put them both in the bathroom" but they are not fond of each other and I'm not sure our kids would leave them in the bathroom. What would we do while eating lunch / dinner if we stopped at a restaurant (can't leave pets in a car in the summer, they'll cook). One (the 2.5 yo) will meow incessantly for hours on end and we will go nuts. snip SM When Soncek yowled for 3 consecutive nights because the sound snow-plows made was upsetting him, the vet gave some tranquilizers for Soncek after she (the vet) tested Soncek's blood to see if his liver is ok (it is). Best wishes, Polonca and Soncek With the temperature forecast to rise to 38°C in Ljubljana by Saturday, I doubt that Soncek will be bothered by snow-plows again in the near future. ;-) -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy and Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart. http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk |
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Adrian A wrote:
polonca12000 wrote: When Soncek yowled for 3 consecutive nights because the sound snow-plows made was upsetting him, the vet gave some tranquilizers for Soncek after she (the vet) tested Soncek's blood to see if his liver is ok (it is). Best wishes, Polonca and Soncek With the temperature forecast to rise to 38°C in Ljubljana by Saturday, I doubt that Soncek will be bothered by snow-plows again in the near future. ;-) No, but he might melt - and so will the rest of us! Best wishes, Polonca and Soncek |
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My friend has a cat question
"MaryL" -OUT-THE-LITTER wrote If another car has lost control and is headed right for you, you won't have time to use an emergency brake or try to extract a cat or kitten from under your feet. You need to be in full control. In that case I would certainly not be putting on the brake, I would be steering out of the idiot's way. |
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My friend has a cat question
On 2006-07-23, John F Eldredge penned:
You could potentially have a situation where you couldn't pull out of the way. For example, the right lane is stopped, but you are in the moving left lane. The other side of the road also has all lanes occupied. Someone in the oncoming left lane swerves into your lane. Your choices are (a) hit the brakes but continue moving straight forward, (b) continue moving forward at full speed, (c) swerve to the right into the line of stopped cars, which may well cause you to spin into oncoming traffic, or (d) swerve left into oncoming traffic. You are most likely to survive if you do (a) hit the brakes and continue moving straight ahead. I can't imagine a situation in which I would find having cats underfoot as a driver an acceptable risk. I agree -- I need to have all options available, and I also need to be able to focus on driving the car without worrying about injurying any small bodies that might be moving about the cabin. -- monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca |
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