TL;DR: Can I bring my cat to my parents house for the weekend once in a while (40 min drive)?
Hi! I adopted a 3.5 y/o cat last month and we live together in my small, one-bedroom apartment by ourselves. We get along great and already bond. She’s not a shy cat — she greets everyone with headbutts when they come over!
My parents live 40 minutes away and I want to visit them for the weekend and bring her with me. When I adopted her, she spent her first night in a small room with me in my parent’s house, and then the next day brought her to my apartment. She was doing so well confided into my bedroom that I let her see the rest of the apartment after only three or four days. This is now her home and she’s marked her territory on every square foot!
Anyway, I’m planning on bringing her with me for a few days at my parent’s house. No other cats, animals, or children live in the house — it’ll be just me and my parents whom she has met a few times. The house is also not very big, one floor with a finished basement where we watch TV.
Has anyone else given their cat two homes (i.e. sharing with a partner, bringing a cat on vacation, or a similar situation)? Since I didn’t have her as a kitten I’m not sure how she’ll act, but she was very, very easy when I first adopted her and barely hid under the bed. She loves exploring!
I have a big carrier that I can buckle into the back of my car. I’ve left it out in the living room and she spends most of her time in there, even sleeps there at night when she’s not sleeping next to me. I’ll bring her litter box without cleaning the litter out, her favorite toys, and I’ll even bring her food dishes. I’m planning on going for a “long” weekend so she has more time to acclimate (Wednesday night until Sunday or Monday).
Does anyone have any other tips? Should I confide her to the room with me the first night? Let her explore immediately? Try to only keep her on one level (not sure how I can do that lol)? I think she’ll be fine since she definitely already feels an attachment to me, but she’s a very curious cat so I don’t know exactly how to handle this in the safest, easiest way.
Thank you!
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