Moving with Pets
Moving Day! Change is exciting, but also stressful for everyone. Don't forget how tough it can be on your pets. Once when we moved, our cat, Mr Frank, disappeared for 3 days. We thought Frank was history, but he came back. Be sure to ID your pet before the move! Here are a few suggestions: petFINDER™ Pet ID Tag, Kooga Pet Flash Drive, Dog e-Tag and the micro-chip.
Here's a funny and realistic SF Gate article with a few tips thrown in-- Moving? Congratulations. Moving with pets? Condolences ... a few tips to make it slightly less horrible, The writer recommends focusing on safety and stress relief:
Simply accept that once you move, your cats will not speak to you for at least a week, if not much longer. They will urinate on your underwear, scratch the new sofa, and if you let them out, not come back for several days. They will laugh at your agony with all their little kitty friends. They will decide not to eat the food they've been eating for years. They will forget they ever learned to use a litter box. In short, they'll make you wish you'd never been born, never met a cat, or simply stayed in the old house the way you were intended to by the cat gods.
Your dogs will speak to you, because they are, after all, dogs, and there's only so much they can bear to do that will hurt you. But they'll look at you with a reproachful gaze, and at last you'll fully understand where the phrase "puppy dog eyes" came from. They'll go on walks but will sadly inform you that they miss their old familiar smells, and worry that, without them to refresh the scent, the dogs in the old neighborhood will forget them....
....In the end, nothing will really make moving with pets a snap. It's stressful and, unless you're very careful, it can be dangerous. So do all these things I suggest. Put them in safe carriers, update their ID tags, microchip them and board them and break out the ambient music. Even if it doesn't fix it for them, you'll probably feel better.
Not long after you move, the dogs will relent and decide the new house and neighborhood aren't so bad. And one day, as you sit drinking coffee in your big new kitchen, your cat will plunk herself down on the paper you're trying to read.
And you'll know she finally forgave you, too.
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Posted by Molly & Jessie at November 10, 2007 9:05 AM
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