June 14th - We’re all going on a summer holiday …

This post is for my mum, John’s mum and Ree, for having us all to stay, and for Doug for shipping the solution to a potentially sticky problem …  (Like the pictures of the new ‘Hog Pound’, BTW)

They haven’t said so in so many words, but I have good reason to suspect that certain family members are slightly nervous about our summer visit … with Tig and Foggy. Not that our nearest and dearest would turn us away, but a certain amount of trepidation around accommodating two energetic young cats is to be expected. For my own part, I was more concerned as to how they would cope with the 10-hour drive to Calais. Bearing in mind we will be travelling in August, it didn’t seem fair to keep them cooped up in the plastic carriers that we normally use for vet visits. So we needed something that would double as a car carrier and a portable home-from-home.

Now America, as we know, is a Big Country (cue music), and I reckon they must know a thing or two about travelling with pets. So it was no surprise that I came across a company called Sturdi Products selling something called a “Car-Go”. Just what we needed: it secures to the back seat of the car using the seatbelt straps and the cats can use it as their bed while in other people’s houses. Seemed a great idea, so we got a matching Sturdibag Pet Carrier to go with it, as we will have to take the cats to the vet for their tick treatment before we come back to France.

As you see, the cats seemed to take to both before they were even properly unpacked. Hopefully they will show the same enthusiasm on holiday …

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