Looking for input/ideas/suggestions.We travel with multiple cats, ranging from a few months to 13 years old. Several of them want to go outside the motorhome, especially if DW and I are outside. We've considered multiple options, but can't seem to figure out which would work best for us. Would like to hear what other people have done.First, when we travel, we normally stay in one place anywhere from 1 night to one week, so we don't want something very permanent or hard to setup/take down. Also, limited space in bays to store while traveling. Some ideas we have tossed around.Leashes: Would take up very little space, but only one will tolerate a harness, and as they never sit still, we would be spending a lot of time unraveling leashes.Cages: Would control them, but would require cargo space as well as take down time depending on how big it is. Also, when we have tried cages (we have a 2'x4'x3' cage), they are not happy as they feel "locked up" and end up crying all the time.Screen Shelter: Would require some setup/take down and cargo space, but would provide an area that we could sit with them and allow them to roam "freely" around us - provided we secure the floor and doors so they can't escape. All are declawed, so probably no issues with them tearing the screen.Let them roam free on their own good behavior: NOPE - ain't gonna happen.Again - welcome any ideas on how others have worked this out.ThanksDon

What do you do back at home? Declawing makes it rather difficult to allow them outside. Sorry that was done to them.

2oldman wrote:What do you do back at home? Declawing makes it rather difficult to allow them outside. Sorry that was done to them.We never let them outside unless we are with them, even at home. Clawed or declawed, there are too many dangers for a cat (dogs, cars, birds, people who hate animals) for us to just let them roam free. At home, we sit with them on the patio with a fenced in back yard they can't escape from, and we keep close tabs on them.

We found out real quick the cat will run into a hiding spot and lay there and watch you for hours when you are frantically trying to find them so you can leave the camp ground...We lost one to the trip doing this... The cat would not come out of hiding when being called... Now it is a cage or a lease which the cat hates the worse...One of the hardest things we had to do was to eventually pack up and leave...Roy Ken

I had one that was an outdoor cat at home but never let him outside when on the road. He had been on his own as a youngster at a storage yard. He would definitely try to get out occasionally and even tried to batter his way out through a window with blinds once, but he would settle down after a while. They may show their displeasure but they get used to being an inside kitty when they're in the RV. You'd feel a lot worse if you let him outside and he disappeared.

Hiker_01 wrote:At home, we sit with them on the patio with a fenced in back yard they can't escape from, and we keep close tabs on them.All the fence does is slow down their escape. :B

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buta4
Explorer
Jan 28, 2017
Declawing requires AMPUTATION of the last knuckle bone in each claw, suturing each stump and then bandaging it. For ALL OF THE CLAWS on all of the paws on that particular cat.

Particularly painful procedure, post op.

Plus, they have no way to defend themselves without their claws.

:(

Just sayin'.
2oldman
Explorer II
Jan 28, 2017
RoyB wrote:
One of the hardest things we had to do was to eventually pack up and leave...
That's sad.
gbopp
Explorer
Jan 28, 2017
Hiker_01 wrote:
At home, we sit with them on the patio with a fenced in back yard they can't escape from, and we keep close tabs on them.

All the fence does is slow down their escape. :B
DougE
Explorer
Jan 28, 2017
I had one that was an outdoor cat at home but never let him outside when on the road. He had been on his own as a youngster at a storage yard. He would definitely try to get out occasionally and even tried to batter his way out through a window with blinds once, but he would settle down after a while. They may show their displeasure but they get used to being an inside kitty when they're in the RV. You'd feel a lot worse if you let him outside and he disappeared.
RoyB
Explorer II
Jan 28, 2017
We found out real quick the cat will run into a hiding spot and lay there and watch you for hours when you are frantically trying to find them so you can leave the camp ground...

We lost one to the trip doing this... The cat would not come out of hiding when being called... Now it is a cage or a lease which the cat hates the worse...

One of the hardest things we had to do was to eventually pack up and leave...

Roy Ken
Hiker_01
Explorer
Jan 28, 2017
2oldman wrote:
What do you do back at home? Declawing makes it rather difficult to allow them outside. Sorry that was done to them.

We never let them outside unless we are with them, even at home. Clawed or declawed, there are too many dangers for a cat (dogs, cars, birds, people who hate animals) for us to just let them roam free. At home, we sit with them on the patio with a fenced in back yard they can't escape from, and we keep close tabs on them.
2oldman
Explorer II
Jan 28, 2017
What do you do back at home? Declawing makes it rather difficult to allow them outside. Sorry that was done to them.

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