When we moved full time to TV from NY last year, we arranged with a very reliable pet transporter in NY to have our two 13 year old cats brought to Florida. After they had a thorough checkup by our vet and we got the appropriate paper work required by the transporter and the airlines, our "girls" were picked up at our vet's and transported to Newark Airport in regulation pet carriers (plenty of room) which we were required to purchase, flown drug free on Continnental Airlines where they breathed the same atmosphere as the other passengers, and picked up at Tampa Airport by a local vet here in the neighborhood where they were boarded until we arrived. Their whole trip from our vet to Tampa was eight hours. We drove down and arrived in TV several days later and were reunited with our "girls". Everyone arrived safe, sound, and healthy and doing fine today.
