Sphynx Cats – On The Move

Luna the Sphynx Cat and Pierre the Sphynx Kitten are about to be uprooted in the next two weeks as we move house. This is going to introduce all sorts stresses for them while they are still sorting out their relationship within the house.

While Luna has been here since she came to us, she does have the advantage of being used to going to our other house in the bush. Her first trip there with us was for a week’s stay and she did not defecate the whole time causing my anxiety levels to rise to stratospheric levels. Luckily I put her on the litter just before we left (it is an 5 1/2 drive home) and she relieved herself AND me.

I will be expecting similar things from both Luna and Pierre when we move.

To prepare for the move we will be packing a room at a time and letting them get used to the change. Sphynxes are incredibly curious, and in Luna’s case, fearless.  So the change will excite them as long as their familiar food, litter and sleeping places are left intact till the last minute.

At the new house we will have decided where the new places will be for eating , toileting and sleeping in advance and make sure both Luna and Pierre are shown the new places as soon as they are brought into the house.  They will come in after all of the moving has been completed to make sure they don’t escape under the feet of the movers, or through open doors.

I remember moving house when I was a little girl, in the days before cat carriers. My parents popped our big placid tom cat into a plastic wash basket with a lid and he was unceremoniously put into the moving van for the short trip between the houses.  Imagine the surprise of the movers when the doors of the van opened he was perched on top of a wardrobe with murder in his eyes after chewing his way out.

I will keep you up to date with the move as it happens and pass on anything that crops up.

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