Take it from me and my years of experience.. You can NOT pack with a cat in the room or it goes this way... put in shirt, remove cat, put in another shirt, remove cat, put in socks, remove cat, put in deoderant, remove cat, put in pants, remove cat, put in undies, remove cat........

I find it is just so much easier to remove the cat from the room before I even start and packing goes so much faster!