We're having some urgent and noisy repairs being done on our house in a couple of days time. There's going to be a lot of disruption and builders in and out, and I don't think our beautiful cat is going to like it one bit. He hates noise except when he's making it by singing the song of his people at 3am.
Family are kindly letting us stay in their empty flat about 1.5 hours drive away during the building works and we're thinking of taking our cat. Are we crazy?
(It's a strange choice, I know, but he's a strange cat! He really doesn't like catteries because they can't give him constant human attention. On the other hand, a few times we've tried leaving him with a friend over the weekend and he's LOVED it. Friendly, playful, eating his head off and having 24-hour petting. He seems to care much more about having constant company - he doesn't mind who it is either! - than being in his own territory. None of the cats we've had before have ever been like this!)
So - are we crazy to take him with us? What do we need to do to make the 1.5-hour drive easier? We have an enormous cat carrier that's big enough for a litter box, and he's usually pretty fine with being in the car. Should we break the journey up? Feed him beforehand? Try and time it for when he's sleepy or stick some Feliway in the car somehow?