Cat hair in the RV?

Our Henry is an older longer hair cat with hyperthyroid disease and is very prone to losing hair :B. It's not a huge problem, but we vacuum daily.

He's mostly great when we move, and always great when we're stationary.

I've had cat patients that just wouldn't adapt to vehicles even with sedation, anti-nausea medication, and OTC medications/pheromone efforts. I'm convinced there are a few individuals that wouldn't adapt, but they are the exception rather than the rule.

Doug, DVM

Thank you, everyone!

And I love the pics of the cat sunning himself on the dash :).

My cats are old enough that they just doze a lot. I don't think they would mind doing that in the van.

A good vac and some lint rollers take care of our cat's hair; no worse than taking care of the dog.

Lol, AprilWhine! That cat needs to calm down a bit! :)

Our cat has been traveling with us since he was four weeks old. The rv is his second home. He travels in the truck with us and either lays on the dashboard or on the center consol. On the dashboard he travels on his back sunning his belly. The only unpleasant thing is keeping his litter box on the floor in the back seat.

Never had a big problem with hair. Doesnt seem to shed much. Certainly not as much as a dog.

Our cats travel with us.....cat hair is a fact of life. We have a Dyson vacuum that does a pretty good job. Take your sewing machine.....cat hair makes pretty good pillows. LOL LOL (joking)

My uncle traveled with his three cats... and he used a clipper on them. Sounds like they would look funny but they were just clipped short not bald. They had amazing thick coats but short hair and no tangles. Easy to brush. They didn't mind being clipped. I guess they got used to it.

Uncle passed and two of the cats are gone now, too. They traveled in a fold down open air crate that had a "shelf" across 1/4 of the middle. The litter box was under the shelf. Two cats liked to cuddle up in the cat bed on the bottom. One liked to be by himself on the shelf most of the time. The crate had a place near a big window behind the passenger seat. They watched the scenery go by. When they stopped for the night the cats roamed free but always had a leash on each one. If they crawled behind a couch the leash would give their position away. They did fine walking outside on a leash when there was time to go for a stroll.

That's what I remember. They traveled to Alaska with those 3 cats. Took the ferry up and drove back... in a van camper.

I travel with two cats and can truthfully say there is no way to eliminate cat hair without eliminating the cat. But I am very fond of my two old girls and couldn't imagine leaving them with sitters.

I have a Dyson canister that I use weekly, and any cat that sits in my lap gets combed with a dethatch tool. Between the two, I can keep the cat hair down to tolerable levels.

As for cats not traveling well, anyone who thinks that hasn't met my cats. ;) My yellow cat took to RVing right away. The Siamese was a little reluctant but she came around too. She won't ride on the dash, but my lap in the front seat is ok fine!

I've been taking my cats since 2004. I also take the Dyson vacuum and I've found that one of those rubber sponges made especially for pet hair works well where the vacuum is too tedious-curtains on the front window of the motor home.
On edit: I have always trained my cats from the very beginning to not hover around the door at the stick house or the motor home, so I have never had them try to dart out as we are coming and going.

I bring our dogs and let the grown children take care of the cat. Most cats don't travel well and if search the forum, you'll find unpleasant accidents mentioned that have happened to cats while RVing.

As much as you love and miss your felines, you'd feel even worse if something happened to them while RVing.