Going to Seattle

[cos]

I'm transferring to a team at Google Seattle, much to my surprise (well, to the surprise of me a month ago or anytime in the past few decades, more accurately). Planning to move there, along with Alice, around early February, but keeping the house in Cambridge with intent to return in a few years...

Oh, we also have to figure out how to move a cat.

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[cos]

Ugh. *wince*

Fortunately we'd only have one SSR, not three! :)

Did you have Pre-Check when you did this? Security lines have gotten significantly less hectic for me since I signed up for that a few years ago. With all the other people getting to keep their shoes and belts on and not having to take laptops and bags of liquids out, everyone is calmer and more relaxed around us, not just us.

Nonetheless, we are certainly looking for a carrier that is very easy to get a cat in and out of, having been warned about this exact issue. We've also talked to the vet about the options for calming a cat down with substances. Apparently there's a hormone you can spray on things that makes a cat feel more comfortable, among other things. Did you try any meds or substances on your cats? Which ones, and how did they work out?

[wombatbanana.livejournal.com]

I think this was pre-precheck. At least pre-us-having-it. (We enrolled in NEXUS after we moved here; highly recommended, by the way, it means we always get precheck plus expedited entry into Canada and the US.)

We did get the cats Thundershirts, which I think helped. We didn't try any hormones or medications.

[(Anonymous)]

I know that some airlines had a limit to the total number of cats that could be on a flight, maybe one, maybe two. So make your cat-reservations early, before your flight's cat-spaces fill up.