Keeping cats cool in a Pick-up Cab

annoc3 wrote:

.....My question and concern is, how do we keep the cats cool in the cab if we stop along a route, say for lunch or short shopping? In the past, we would turn on the generator and AC and always try to park the RV in the shade. My husband says because the PU is diesel, we will just let the truck run, with the AC on. Really?! Since loosing the cats has always been my greatest fear, this opens all kinds of new concerns.

Our cats ride in the tow vehicle with us, which is a large GMC van. They're in two large cages complete with water and small litter pans. When we stop for lunch or to stretch our legs, we open every door the van has to let fresh air blow though. We don't leave them alone. We don't leave the engine running. We're right there in the TT where we can watch and hear them. Shopping together? No way... when we stop at WalMart for the night I stay in the TT with the cats and DH goes in for whatever we need or want for dinner. One of our cats learned how to open the latch so we have a hook with spring on the screen door and the bottom half covered with that clear plastic that looks like glass...I can't think of the name of it.