Moving? Congratulations. Moving With Pets? Condolences ...

I've had just about every nightmarish pet moving experience imaginable, including having one cat disappear for several days after I moved. I've boarded my pets, kept them in the car, brought them to someone else's house, emptied a room and kept them there, and hired someone to sit with them while I moved.

And none of it works.

Oh, you can read, and in my case, write, articles giving advice on stress reduction and safety for pets during a move. But let me tell you, as the author of such articles, most of the advice doesn't really make all that much of a difference.

You can put them in a covered container with food and water. You can play soothing ambient music. Heck, you can sit there next to them holding their little paws all day, but the bottom line is this: They don't want to move. Not now, not later, not ever. Not to a bigger house, not to a better house, just not. Full Story

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