Hershey and Mikey both five year olds have made the trip twice. The first time there was a lot of angst. Yelling and crying and trying to get out of the pet carrier. The second time (ten days ago) we put harnesses on them, fairly snug, about five days before the trip. The day of the trip we fastened leashes to them, turned the carrier on end, (heavy plastic vinyl and mesh from Walmart)
and dropped them both in leash and all VERY quickly, zipped them up. We let them out after about an hour and they found laps and all was well.(Our daughter was with us) We put them back in the carrier for our stops. Put a small litter box in there too. The carrier cost less than thirty dollars, is lightweight and roomy.
Hate to use tranquilizers, plus they won't eat anything they don't LOVE.
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