Best way to bring new kittens home (1.45 hr journey)

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Just that really.
It's a long journey and they'll never have left their litter mates, let alone the house.
Do you have any tips to ease their stress?

Anyone?

Cat carrier and a large blanket to cover the carrier.

Tbh though, some cats travel well, some don't. My two 10yo boys are rubbish at travelling. They yowl the entire time whether it's 10 mins or 3 hours 😣. We've moved a lot and they fine in other aspects - I've never kept them indoors for more than one night in a new house etc. Good luck!

Do they come with a familiar blanket? That would help. A pet carrier would be a good idea, you don't want them to escape while you are driving!

A big carrier you can pop them both into together with lots of towels/blankets. Ideal if you can have something that smells of their home plus your home. When we got our kits we brought a big fluffy towel to the shelter when we first met them at 6weeks. By the time we got them at 10 weeks it was very chewed but smelled of their mum, and we brought that back along with some little toys and a new towel from our house in the carrier.

Also put a puppy pad at the bottom of the carrier in case of any wee incidents.

Be prepared for LOTS of meowing! One of ours travelled totally fine, the other yelled the whole way.

There might also be travel sickness- take rubber gloves and wipes just in case they vom after 10 mins in the car and you need to clean them up a bit en route. Have someone at the other end with a warm bath poured just in case you need to dunk them in it on arrival!

I regularly take our cats to visit my parents about 2hrs away. They're totally fine these days. Good luck :)

Thanks all. Obviously I have a carrrier.
Thanks for the puke preparation advice too!

One of ours meows in protest on the shortest journey in a carrier but she is fine in a harness on a lap in the back.

And don't forget photos!

Talk to them reassuringly. Tell them nursery rhymes or sing to them. Get them used to your voice.
Don't have the radio on loud.

Hickory Dickory Dock is a favourite nursery rhyme for dcat, complete with extra lines and actions.

Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock,
(Was a bad mousie, wasn't he?)
The clock struck one
That naughty mousie ran down
Hickory Dickory Dock

I also sing (very badly) to dcat

My momma cat loves me
Oh yes, she dooooo
My momma cat loves me
And I love her tooooo

I know I sound completely mad!

Love that idea paper.
No I shall not forget the photos- promise!!

Should just clarify, I'm pretending to be dcat singing.
I sound even more mad now!

I brought 3 small kittens on a 3-hour journey with no problems at all - as far as I could tell they all snuggled up & slept.

Subsequently delivered one of them on his own to a friend - that was approx 1h30 & again no problems.

One of them later developed a travel phobia (panicking & pooing, lovely) but as a tiny kitten she was no trouble