How I almost had a day trip to Texas
Today my goal was to arrange transportation for Ed & Stewie back to Texas (where their breeder lives). I'd started this yesterday and had high hopes when I got to work in the morning. Little did I realize that it would degenerate into an all day affair.
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The thing that held up the plans I'd originally arranged was that our regular vet would not sign a "statement of acclimation" (which is basically the vet's word that the cats will be able to survive for 4 hours at X degrees (X is 20 by default)). Now, I agree. There's no way Ed and Stewie would last at 20 degrees. They just don't have that much fur and extra padding. So we checked the weather here and in Dallas - Denver temp ranges for the rest of the week are 40s-70s; Dallas is 60s-70s. So why 20 degrees? Who knows. Anyway, I talked to the shippers and they thought that if we could get the vet to say no colder than 40 degrees for 4 hours, we'd be good (the flight is only 2 hours). No go.
I let Brad know and the next thing I know, we're pricing flights to DFW so we can carry on the cats. Brad found tickets that would work great for us - we'd be able to fly in, drop off the cats and fly out tomorrow. There would be enough time to get the cats to the vet for the health certificate. And the ticket prices worked out to about what the shipper wanted. But (and there's always a but) once we finally got in touch with the breeders, they're not available tomorrow.
So we started again with shipping the cats.
Anyway, we're not going to Texas tomorrow. We're putting the cats on a flight Friday morning.
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The only thing I can think of to explain the temperature is that the plane's altitude and speed would make the cargo hold colder (since it isn't heated).
I think it is wonderful that you were willing to book flights and carry the cats on yourselves...very sweet and caring.
I have to confess that as a "have to be asleep to fly" kinda gal, I'm relieved that we don't have to fly. But I would have done it if that's what needed to be done.
Yeah, if you don't like to fly, and needed to sleep, I'm sure the people in the seat next to you wouldn't be too happy with whining cats while you slept.
Brad would have been with me
But I think with all of the plane noise, that they wouldn't be that loud. I've travelled on a plane where someone else had cats and never heard them.
I flew a dozen or so times with cats and not once had a complaint.