How to get a cat used to his travel carrier (and more)

Dan Nguyen and his three cats with 2 travel carriers and one on his shoulders

How to get a cat used to his travel carrier? You let him explore the carrier at home. Then you give him a treat inside the carrier. Then you carry him around the house. Then you practice carrying him outside. You then give him a treat with petting when using the carrier outside. That’s …

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British are increasingly adopting declawed cats from America

Cat air travel

A PDSA report tells us that 5% of cat owners in the UK who acquired their cat from abroad (and I’m going to presume that this is North America) did so with the purpose of adopting a declawed cat. “Alarmingly, 5% of cat owners who got their cat from abroad, equating to 31,000 cats, …

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Cat with Ukrainian refugee banned (after boarding) from flying with Ryanair to UK

Scott Liza and Dobby

NEWS AND COMMENT: Liza Yardley is a Ukrainian woman who is married to Scott Yardley, a Lancashire man, who lives in Wishaw. They married two and a half years ago in Dnipro, Ukraine. They have two daughters. And they also have a family cat, Dobby. Scott was in Lancashire trying to help his wife …

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‘Passenger in 13A is breastfeeding a cat and will not put cat back in its carrier when flight attendant requested’

Breastfeeding cat in aircraft cabin?

NEWS AND COMMENT: The image below is from a pilot messaging system which tells us that the passenger in seat 13A was breastfeeding a CAT! And they would not put their cat back in the carrier when requested. A lot of US airlines allow pets in the cabin provided they are in carriers and …

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Audio recording of Pen Farthing threatening MOD special adviser Peter Quentin

Pen Farthing and dogs at Nowzad

This is an interesting voice recording of Mr Paul ‘Pen’ Farthing, the founder and manager of the Nowzad animal rescue charity, who, with his cats and dogs, evacuated Afghanistan via Kabul airport on a privately chartered plane yesterday at 4:30 PM after an enormous effort. He claims that the MoD obstructed his evacuation and …

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British government blocks evacuation of cats and dogs from Kabul to the UK

Pen Farthing at Nowzad in Kabul

NEWS AND COMMENT – KABUL, AFGHANISTAN: The background to this story is useful to know. Nowzad is an animal charity run by Mr Pen Farthing in Kabul. They rescue cats and dogs and other animals. They reunite cats and dogs that have been adopted by military personnel while serving in Afghanistan after they return …

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Australians will be able to take their cats on planes out of a carrier

Cat on a plane out of carrier

NEWS AND COMMENT: It seems like the Holy Grail of feline air travel because a change is afoot in Australia. Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority is relaxing the rules governing the transportation of pets on aircraft. It’s reported that pets could soon be allowed to join their owners in the cabins and depending upon …

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