The house I currently live in is only approximately 5 miles away from my old house. Leave it to me to do things totally different from all the other posts I've read. I did it half way through. There was chaos at the old house and new because my son was helping the movers at the old house and I was at the new house. I kept the fur posse isolated in a back room of the old house until it was time to transport them to the new one. And I didn't take them all together, just a couple for each trip, which meant 4 trips. When I got them to the new house, I put them in the basement w/all of their food, water, beds, toys and litterboxes. They were pretty stressed so they stayed down there for 3 days on their own! I thought my RB Peeka was never going to come upstairs. She stayed on the top step of the basement for another 3 days and refused to come up all the way. I guess she got lonely and once she saw the enclosed patio w/all that sun, she made that her permanent spot except at bed time, of course. Sniff. Now I miss my little Peekie. Anyhow, the fur posse liked the basement so much that they stay there each night now. Worked out great, gives me my space and they have their own apartment, the little stinkers.