A Rainy Day in Seattle
I’ve found a nice warm spot to nap, but it’s a gloomy rainy afternoon and I’m having a bad hair day. It’s been over forty hours since my last grooming and I’ve got a snarl between my shoulders I can’t reach. The woman of the house has been in constant motion, peripatetic the humans would say - running up and down the stairs, taking stuff out of closets and stuffing them in boxes.
We probably have all at some point in time gone through a move to a new location or perhaps many moves. Some of these with and some without pets. For those who have moved with pets, how often have you truly thought about the 'thoughts' of your pet during this time? You know, it can actually be very traumatic.
"With their qualities of cleanliness, discretion, affection, patience, dignity, and courage, how many of us, I ask you, would be capable of becoming cats?" - Fernand Mery Her Majesty the Cat
Yes, I agree, but then moving with a passle of kids and pets makes that move more traumatic as they are often the caue of it lol. This comes from one moving 12 times with kids and pets–and I took the brunt of the trauma lol. Great post!!
We’re getting ready to downsize after 51 years in the same home, so this will be traumatic for all of us–especially TAG, our cat, who lives to hunt in the woods behind our home.
We moved a year and a half ago after 30 years! Foxie and Boots actually transitioned quite smoothly…much better than I had expected:>)
What a cutie. I understand entirely about moving being traumatic for a pet sometimes but if it’s to a better home, then it is great for the pet because they will feel safer and more peaceful. Therefore they will be more happier.