Cooling while on the road
DH and I will be making a three week trip in July and traveling through Iowa and South Dakota on our way to Montana. We have a triple slide fifth wheel, so our cat travels in a large collapsible nylon dog crate inside the FW(he doesn't handle the truck well). He has food/water, a sleeping pad and litterbox, but I was worried about his overheating. I subscribe to cat Fancy magazine and saw a pet crate with an ice chest in the top, but the cheapest was $100! A stroke of brilliance led me to purchase some nylon mesh and industrial Velcro. I now have a pocket in the top of the crate which will hold those blue ice packs. We also got him a Water Boy water dish that won't spill(I filled it partially and put it in the freezer)as well as a battery operated fan to hang from the top of the crate.
