karyj wrote:
Hi, everyone!
I can't imagine leaving the cats in the trailer while it's on the road, so they'd have to be in crates in the car, right? How does that work for long drives?
We tow with a van so our cats ride in two large cat ages complete with small litterpans. They are in these cages for no more than 6 hours at a time, usually less.
I'll be investing in new, larger crates that they don't associate with going to the vet, but it seems like an 8 hr. drive would be a pretty miserable experience for a cat in a crate.
That is a long time unless you get something like the Midwest crate and add a water dish and litterpan. But why 8 hrs? That's not healthy for people to sit that long and would be rough on any children.
If you travel in a Class C, do your cats ride loose? Do they get under your feet or try to walk across the dash?
The problem in leaving them loose in a Class-A or C is it's very easy for them to escape. All you have to do is forget and open the cab window or one of the doors. Children are great for allowing both cats and dogs out of RVs. You can confine the cats to the bedroom if your rig has one. That's what we plan to do with our 4 cats. We have both a TT and a Class-C. When in the Class-C we plan to keep them in the rear bedroom with water and litterpans untill we're settled in for the night. Then give them the run of the RV. :) We've been taking them out to it to get them used to it before taking them camping with it.
Which would you recommend for traveling with cats, a Class C or a TV+TT?
We travel where the weather is mild, but what's recommended if you have to leave the critters in the RV while you go out hiking, go to town, etc?
Do you plan to tow a small car with a Class-C? Both will work if you can make sure no one opens a door and lets the cats escape. And no one moves the slide unless the cats have already been confined.
Does anyone have suggestions for making sure cats don't bolt out the doors or chew through window screens? (one of ours is a sneaky bolter, the other's a chewer :S )
And this is the problem .... bolting cats when doors are opened or screens torn or somehow come loose. We only leave our cats when we can leave the A/C on and windows closed. But we do have those MaxAire vertical vents on 2 of the windows. They're 6' wide X window height and the cats, even if the screens tore or fell loose, could not get through the slats/louvers.
