Originally Posted by
MisterTanaka
One more thing -- Fat Choy is rather wiggly when she is held, so prior to our flight, we practiced going through security. I put her in her bag, left her there for a while, took her out, carried her through a door, and put her back in her bag, and repeated this exercise every night for a couple weeks. My wife made endless fun of me, but I think it helped.
Did your wife get a video?
An idea for cat travelers is to condition them to wear a harness before you travel,
not a collar. It's much easier to grab/restrain a cat in a harness than a cat without handles! Don't use a collar, because if your cat wears a safety/breakaway collar and you grab it, you'll end up with a collar in your hand and a view of the backside of a cat running off at high speed. A non-safety collar and you could end up with a strangled cat.
We've got one cat that is leash trained, I could imagine him sauntering through the WTMD on his own, if it wasn't for the fact that at 17 pounds, he's technically too big to fly in cabin.