Question:
We travel frequently between our primary and secondary homes. How can we successfully take our 10-year-old cat back and forth with us? He is an indoor/outdoor cat while at his primary home of 10 years. We have put him in a travel cage and taken him on the one-way three-hour trip. He seems to tolerate the car ride.Will he ever adjust to the other house and be allowed to go in and out without us fearing that he will not return? How would you suggest the ideal goal be reached, and how long will it take?.
C.H.J., Suffolk, Va Jul 16, 2006
Answer:
There is no way of knowing if your cat might get the impulse to go from the new home back to his old haunts.I would not let him out anytime except in a walking harness and leashed, or in a cat-proof porch or outdoor "cat house."Letting him go in and out at your primary residence does not mean he will never get an infection from a free-roaming sick cat, be killed by another animal or harm wildlife around your first home -- and at your secondary residence, if he is allowed to go outdoors there, as well.
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