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1ed
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Mar 08, 2021

What do you do with cat at Campgrounds

I am wondering what you do with cat once you arrive at campground. I have been looking at those portable cages etc. also I like the leash idea. I would not want to walk the cat around the campground but would like to have him outside during the day. Looking for ideas. Thanks Ed

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  • It depends on how they are raised. Our cat was raised with two dogs so he acted like a dog. Leash trained, even off-leash would always find his way back to the rv.

    Miss the little guy like a limb, he was with us 19 years. He loved to go for rv trips. First one in the car.
  • I look for sites close to trees and bushes. I walk her without a leash - took a couple years to 'train' her but now she looks forward to walks with me. She never runs away - dogs do that - although I do not know where she is at all times. She loves to smell other peoples' RVs, bushes and branches, and sharpen her claws and climb.

    Keeping a cat confined inside is not my style, or hers.
    Pangaea Ron wrote:
    She couldn't get out herself and we needed to extend the bed to get her out. . .
    Not all cats are good travelers. May take time.
  • Thanks for all the comments, I have questions also.

    We adopted a 4 month old cat that is now 8 months old and is an indoor cat. We have a harness and leash for her (never yet used), but will practice with her before we take the MH out next week

    The last time we took her in the MH, she dropped over the back on the couch/bed, crawled underneath and spent much time there. She couldn't get out herself and we needed to extend the bed to get her out. . . and then she went back underneath again. She's much more social now and I'm trying to fabricate a barrier at the back of the couch.
  • Since cats are notoriously fickle and/or stubborn, it's difficult to tell how they will react. One of our three will stay on our lanai at home all day if we let him, the other two not so much. Yet, the one travels well in the TV, and seems okay inside the FW once we stop.

    We never take them outside because we feel it would train them to go to the door and dash outside given the opportunity, and its hard to corral cats. We've thought of hanging an enclosure off a window so they can at least get some fresh air, but I'm still designing it in my head.
  • The cat will be just fine in the MH with a litter pan in the shower. My outdoor, fiercely independent cat traveled well under those conditions.
  • We would only take the car with us on trips longer than a week. Otherwise we would leave her home with plenty of dry food, water, and a duo sized litter box. When we did take her with us, she stayed mostly in the RV looking out the big windshield. The few times we did take her out on a leash she immediately wanted back in.
  • when we traveled with our cat she was outside only when we were and fhen on a leash. she used to actually walk around the CG on that leash. we didn't have the room to store any sort of cage.