Camper Van Cat?

[barneysfriends]

on a recent trip (just a short one...3 months!) to Sicily we saw a number of camper vans, french, german, swiss, austrian, with resident cat/cats. Does anyone have any experience of camper vanning with their cat? Ours wont even get in our van, and we are worried that if we did take him with us for a weekend by the sea, he would scarper as soon as we opened the van door! He's generally a very lazy, home based cat who likes to be where we are, so we hope he may enjoy it....

 

[val douest]

We had friends who used to take their cat with them caravanning and all went well for several years until it was chased by a dog and went missing, presumably having lost its bearings.  They had to return to work but went back every weekend to look for the cat and after a month of tramping round the area and calling its name, the wife was extremely relieved when her thin and bedraggled kitty hurled itself into her arms.  That was the end of caravanning for the cat; he stayed at home after that and was looked after by friends.  Even if my cat was a good traveller, which he isn't, like you I would be very worried that he would become totally disoriented whenever we changed places - and if he had to stay shut in it would be a miserable 'holiday' for him.  I suppose it might be different if the idea was to stay put in one place for several months but not otherwise, I think.