[fizzbyn]

Exactly 1 month from today, Dec 12th, the movers are coming and we're starting on our 5-day trip from Arizona to The Villages. With us will be our 86-year-old mother and a 15-year-old grouchy cat, so I'm very interested in this thread. We had two cats when we made the 9-hour drive from California to Arizona. We settled in AZ three weeks before we went to pick up the mother and cats, so we decided to rent a van where there'd be lots of room for the cats to roam about and for their dirt box, food and water. They howled for about an hour and then spent the rest of the 8 hours under the seat. Then never ate, drank or used the cat box. Now we have only one cat, but we kind of know what he'll be like. We will provide food, drink and liter box, but we don't know if he'll use them until we get to the motel. We just hope he will then. We'll put him in back with our mother so she can entertain him, if that is even possible. Keep this thread up... the more we learn the better.