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Feline Adventures: Tips To Make Traveling With Your Cat A Real Treat

No one likes to leave their fur babies at home. This applies whether they go away on vacation, for the holidays or even for a quick get-away weekend. Even if you have pet-sitter extraordinaire caring for kitty, you know she gets lonely for you and only you. So what’s a good pet parent to do? Take her with you, of course! Travel with your cat!

According to the Roanoke Times, 78 percent of Americans travel with their pets each year. That’s a lot of people and animals taking to the road and airways!

Travel Tips

Traveling with any animal can be challenging. Fortunately, MyThreeCats.com offers easy solutions. We want to make your trips relaxing, safe, and even loads of fun for both your human and your furry feline friend.

Keeping your beloved pet safe is always your priority so a sturdy, durable cat carrier is a must for short day trips to the veterinarian or long rides to your family cabin or favorite beach. Your cat will love the new Expandable Cat Carrier with its foldaway canopy and poly lounge pad that makes it paw-sible for her to stretch out and get comfortable for the ride! You will love the lightweight, stylish carrier that folds flat for storage and travel, making it both attractive and functional. Take a close look at this innovative new Carrier.

So, you’ve reached your destination! Now, how do you keep your cat both safe and happy? She’s meowing up a storm to get out of the carrier and explore her new surroundings, but you can’t just let her have the run of the beach. Problem solved! She can be safe both indoors and outdoors playing in her durable Portable Cat Playpen that’s a breeze to set up and folds flat to fit back into its convenient travel bag. Durable polyester and mesh vents allow your pet to enjoy fresh air. Plus she has a purr-fect view of all the tempting creatures outside as she does at home in the front yard. It’s available in two sizes so dogs can also enjoy it and the rousing attention from onlookers walking their envious pets nearby.

You’ve been traveling all day and like you, your feline companion is ready for a nice long cat nap! Her portable cat playpen is now folded and safely stored in the car. You’ve reached your destination, so she is now meowing loudly, reminding you that it’s time for her favorite hideaway, the Lucy Cat Cave (mythreecats.com).

The lightweight home is shaped like a cone with a comfortable, washable cushion. Easily rolled up for travel, the cave serves like a familiar “mobile home” wherever your travels take her. As with all furniture featured at MyThreeCats.com, the Lucy Cat Cave is designed to blend with any home décor. See more luxurious and charming cat cave designs at Luxury Cat Beds for Sale | Quality Cat Hideaway Beds (mythreecats.com)

So, plan your next trip and pack your car! Kitty is excited about his next excursion, and with help from mythreecats.com, you can be, too! Don’t be surprised if she creates her own travel blog!

Do You Have A Harmonious Multiple-Cat Household?

ForbesAdvisor.com reports that of 86.9 million U.S. cat-owning households, more than 46.5 million own more than one cat. These multiple-cat households must have learned that to achieve feline harmony in their homes, they must make sure that there are enough resources and space for their cats. If your cats know they have options on where they can eat, sleep, play, and use the litter box, all the better. If the cats have only one option, expect territorial disputes and added stress among them.

Here are a few pointers on how to create and keep harmony in your multiple-cat household:

The first introduction of cats to each other should be gradual and free from stress. If possible, keep the new cat in a separate living area of your home, with their food, litter box, and toys. Your “incumbent cat(s)” will know about the new cat, but not have the stress of direct contact. After a few days, gradually allow your “incumbent” cat(s) to approach the new cat, keeping their contacts short and sweet. After a few more days, you will have achieved a successful introduction.
Our strongest recommendation: invest in vertical play spaces. Cat trees, shelves and window perches are ideal ways to give your cats privacy in an off-the-ground location. Cats like height, so vertical options are a purr-fect solution.
Your cats need outlets for exercising and scratching. Leave plenty of scratching devices around your home. Whether they are horizontal, vertical or slanted pads, they will protect your furniture as well as your sanity!
Give each of your cats a separate food bowl! If you have common water bowls, have several in different areas. A water fountain designed for multiple cats is a great way of managing this. Just make sure to keep the fountain and the water it holds both clean and fresh.
Keep as many litter boxes in your home as the number of cats then add one! One of the worst problems can arise when cats have to use the same box. Territorial issues may arise, causing them to “spray” the litter box, which signals to the other cats to stay away. No one needs to have cats using undesignated areas of the house. Once that “out-of-box” behavior starts, it’s hard to stop.
Finally, watch your cats’ interactions. Observe body language and catch an early warning signal so that you can diffuse any tension and avoid an out-and-out battle. One great technique for diffusing attention is to introduce a stimulating wand toy to immediately redirect their attention away from one another and onto the moving object at the end of the wand.

Congratulations on your growing feline family! May you and your cats enjoy many harmonious and joyous moments together throughout their nine lives!

Does Your Cat Have Mew Year’s Resolutions?

Did you know cats have Mew Year’s Resolutions? If cats could talk, here’s what they’d say is their top ten!

😸Take more time out from my stressful day for more naps. (Stressful = staring out the window at birds; following my human around the house; sitting near my bowl waiting for my next meal).
😸Catch any small object that crawls, kill it, then hide it under my human’s bed.
😸Nail that red laser dot this year!
😸Improve my early detection skills when the carrier is pulled out, then, have an emergency hiding plan!
😸Visit every corner of the house to discover even more potential napping spots.
😸Using my staring technique, train my human to go fetch treats/pull out the toys/do anything I want.
😸Perfect the routine of jumping on my human’s device/keyboard when in use, to grab my human’s attention.
😸Not knead my human at 2 a.m. with claws extended. It seems to cause her some discomfort and she wakes up all grumpy.
😸Be irresistible to my human…wait…I am already!
😸Remind my human to frequently shop at MyThreeCats.com for my favorite things and hers, too!

Join In the Fun! Add your Pawsitively Side-Splitting Cat Joke and support animal advocacy!

We all know some great cat jokes. After all, cats have some funky, hilarious behaviors – isn’t that why we’re so crazy about them?

Please post your favorite cat joke here, by clicking the Comments link at the bottom of this posting. For every joke posted, we’ll donate $1 to the Doris Day Animal League, a national non-profit animal advocacy organization protecting cats and other animals through policy initiatives and education. Then, shop at MyThreeCats.com, now through Friday, November 3rd, and we’ll also donate another 5% of sales proceeds to DDAL! Happy Shopping! Thanks for helping our furry friends!

Hey Kitty, What’s Your Sign?

Whether or not you give any credit to zodiac signs, this fun infographic about cat astrology is bound to make you smile. Look for your kitty’s sign; does that description sound anything like him? Even if you don’t know your cat’s exact birth date or month, compare her description to the sign, and you may just have discovered the right match!