Cat travel cage and thoughts on flying with a cat
What is the best kind of cat travel cage? I am thinking here of aircraft travel. For traveling in a car there are a myriad of cat and pet cages or carrying devices, all...
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Cat with Ukrainian refugee banned (after boarding) from flying with Ryanair to UK
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...
286 cats and dogs airlifted from Kabul, Afghanistan to Vancouver, Canada on Russian aircraft
OPINION ARTICLE-NEWS: This is the story of a wonderfully successful evacuation of 286 cats and dogs on a Russian transport plane from Kabul, Afghanistan to Vancouver, Canada in which the organisers, Kabul Small Animal...
‘Passenger in 13A is breastfeeding a cat and will not put cat back in its carrier when flight attendant requested’
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...
British government blocks evacuation of cats and dogs from Kabul to the UK
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...
Australians will be able to take their cats on planes out of a 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...
Cat attacks pilot of plane mid-flight
NEWS AND COMMENT – SUDAN: The cat is described as feral. Perhaps it was semi-feral. It found its way into the cockpit of a Tarco Airlines aircraft at Khartoum International Airport and was well...
Is it safe for domestic cats to fly on airplanes?
This is a tricky question to answer because it depends on a lot of different things including the attitude of the cat guardian. How do you define safe? There is risk in everything we...
Flat-faced Persians banned from flying with Virgin Australia
The airline company Virgin Australia has banned flat-faced cats (and dogs) due to a spike in ‘issues across the industry’. Qantas suspended their animal service to flat-faced breeds in December 2019, as I understand...
Airlines should differentiate between emotional support animals and service animals and ban the former
Proposal are afoot in America to limit animals allowed in the cabin of aircraft, out of carriers, to professionally trained service animal dogs. Domestic cats will be excluded from proposed new rules on what...
How to prepare for travel with your pet to any EU country whether the UK leaves the EU with or without a deal
The procedure for travelling with your pet to the EU appears to be off-putting in its complexity and troublesomeness once we leave the EU. Everything changes and it will inevitably be irritating. I am...
Supermodel flies her 7 rescue cats from Mumbai to London
It’s nice to see a top model and general all-round celebrity committed to cat rescue. I am referring to Elena Fernandes, 32, who describes herself as: …a supermodel, influencer, actress and philanthropist. Born in...
Find out how this guy got his overweight cat into the cabin of an Aeroflot flight
Aeroflot is a Russian airline founded in 1923. They have a rule on the weight of pets that are allowed to travel with their human guardians in the cabin. The pet should weigh under...
Remembering Pfc Hammer, a tabby cat who improved the lives of soldiers in the Iraq war
Pfc (Private first class) Hammer was a tabby kitten born at the US military’s base for the 1st Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. He had two siblings but they ran away never...
Cats and dogs presumed dead in cargo hold of charter flight that slid off runway
There’s a recent report online about a Boeing 737 inbound from Cuba landing at Naval Air Station Jacksonville and skidding off the end of the runway into the St. Johns River. This left the...
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