We moved our kitties around the world. First, we took on them on short trips to my dh's office when we trying to sell the house, then we took them on two- 9 hour road trips. We found that they didn't eat or drink on the way or pee or poop the entire time. The kitten screamed for more than 2 hours straight, but once we put her in the same carrier as the other cat everything was nice and quiet. Once they arrived, they acted at home in my dad's house.
Puppy pads didn't do much for us. I put one in the carrier so she'd want to sit in it, but she thought it was a litter box and peed on it.
Gizmo hated his carrier throughout and everytime we'd have to fight him to get in it, but he was a great traveller once inside.
For the big trip, we split it up, the first leg was a 2 hour drive to the airport followed by a 1 hour flight. They did great. We spent the weekend at my in laws. Cats were fine. For the big flight, (11 hours), we were already pros. We had to sit many rows apart from each other. When we about an hour from landing, my cat (the baby, Krembo) started getting very upset. I kept petting her in her carrier, but she had enough. The other cat(Gizmo) was ansy too and kept turning around inside the carrier. Against airplane regulation, we put them into one carrier and again both were happier. The hour-long drive from the airport went smoothly too.
If you do fly, you should know that you have to take the cat out of carrier and carry him/her through the metal detector. That was the scariest part because I knew if we lost hold of a cat at that point, we might never see him/her again. The cats were so scared though that it was no problem whatsoever to get them back into the carriers, getting them out was actually trickier.
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