My advice is not to take them out of their comfort zone unless you plan on staying for an extended period of time and their are extenuating circumstances...for example, when we go out of town (max 3 days), I leave them home alone, I leave plenty of food and water and my litter box is self cleaning, but one year for Thanksgiving Fin and Alastair were on meds which needed to be administered 2x per day, so we brought all of them to my in-laws and kept them with their litterbox in the room we were staying in...except Bentley gets full run of their home because he is familiar with it from when they kept him a week for us once and he is socialized with their dogs...Fin and Ali did not like their dogs and I didn't feel like spending my holiday acclimating my cats to their home...I have nothing against boarding them at the vet when need be, but with three of them it gets expensive...plus my dogs do not kennel well, so I now have an in-house pet sitter who takes care of all of them for me.



Just bringing them to a friends for an afternoon can stress them out...especially a kitten. Unlike dogs who socialize quicker and more effectively if you bring them with you wherever you go...cats do better when the environment is stable and people come to them...

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• taking them out - mscm95, Thu Sep 6 21:31:10 2007
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• RE: taking them out - Cailin, Tue Oct 2 23:39:28 2007
• RE: taking them out - mscm95, Sat Oct 6 21:45:51 2007
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• RE: taking them out - mscm95, Mon Oct 8 22:32:20 2007
• RE: taking them out - Cailin, Tue Oct 9 19:59:48 2007
• RE: taking them out - 2TonksHere, Wed Oct 10 10:05:24 2007