This is Tiger!

(Yes it's only taken me three days how to figure out how to paste a picture - thank you Themis-Athena)

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Beautiful!

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Awww :)

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So pretty.

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He is beautiful!

(And posting photos from Photobucket is a regular pain -- been there, tried to do that myself.)

I think current regulations in Great Britain require the animal to be ear-chipped, yes. I investigated before I took my cats back to Germany -- don't laugh, but as I hated having to subject them to a 12-hour plane trip/18-hour day inside their pet carriers with no chance of getting out, I briefly but seriously contemplated crossing the Atlantic by ship ... which would most likely have involved going through Great Britain and transferring to another form of transportation there. Turned out at the time, though, that I'd have had to have the chip implanted a half year prior to arrival in GB; and since our move, by the time the thought finally occurred to me, was only a little over a month away, the idea fizzled away within days of having been born.

MbD: How wonderful your husband just accepted your cats' moving with you as a given ... AND all of the cats integrated so well from the start! I think a month of quarantaine and being separated from my cats would have killed all of us, too. That must have been SO hard -- on the cats especially! Did you take them to Australia in one long, nonstop trip or did you break the journey into two or more legs?

hippieed perceptions and Merry Meerkat, both of yours sound like busy lives animal-wise ... though for rather different reasons! MMM, I'm so sorry about Simba; yet another heartbreaking story. hp, re: FiFi ... talk about feline iconoclasts! Ruby Timebomb sounds very sweet, though. Tiger loved to ride on people's shoulders, too, when she was little -- not anymore so once she was grown up, though. With Holly it's the reverse; she hated being lifted up as a kitten, but has discovered in recent years that being carried can actually be understood as just another form of snuggling and hence something to be appreciated!

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Handsome kitty!

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Tiger is beautiful!

I also have moved to another country recently, and brought over my two cats. Luckily in our case having them chipped and vaccinated a little while before travel has sufficed. I remember that the big scare was that if their paperwork was to be found not in order the poor kitties would have had to be kept in quarantine for 6 months; I was quite nervous about it, but in the end everything was great, and the cats were shipped to me almost straight from the airport.

I always felt, like someone else said in this thread, that moving my cats was more difficult that moving myself. However, after reading about the regulations in Australia, and the mandatory 30 days away, I feel that mine was quite an easy process after all :)

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We tried to get the trip over with as soon as humanly possible. But we were coming from Florida and had to change planes in L.A. with a 12 hour layover. The trick was, once we landed in L.A., we weren't allowed any contact with them at all - they had to stay with an internationally approved transit company (JetPet in this case - they were excellent!) so it was a long, brutal (at least for us humans) trip. If I ever had to do it again, I think I'd investigate a ship as well, although I think if we ever took our cats back to the states it would be a world of difference easier - there are hardly any restrictions going back, from what I'm told.

I think we're here for the duration anyway - we have three chickens now and I'm NOT moving them! lol

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No, I can see that ... ;)



I don't suppose you're ever letting the cats get close to the chickens ... or have they gotten pecked on often enough to stay away on their own?

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Well, oddly enough, I never saw this Themis' post asking about the chickens with my cats. I think I have a notification setting somewhere that is wrong.

Short answer: the two cats had two separate reactions to our chickens when we brought them home: the cat that jumps at her own shadow sniffed at them once or twice and walked away completely uninterested, and the cat who fears nothing was so terrified of the new chickens he wouldn't leave the house for a week. Now he studiously ignors their existence. The chickens don't seem fussed about them either; they'll do this little "cluck-cluck-cluck" sound whenever a cat approaches their space, but otherwise go on about their business, which is to plot their escape and plan the digging of giant holes they can hide in.

Excellent. Now I have to do a cat roundup. You'll be starting it off?

Hey everybody! I wanted to show off our sweet kitty Smiles. My boyfriend got her about 6 years ago when he randomly went into a pet store for fun and she purred all over the place and licked his hands. She is the best cat. She licks you like constantly, and she doesn't really meow it's more of a peep. She's really sweet and likes to cuddle. Her favorite toys are balled up pieces of paper- she prefers that to all the other toys we've spent actual money on. She was hit by a car a few years ago, but had a successful surgery and is happier than ever. So here's too many cat pics:



I always put my bookmark a few chapters ahead when I'm reading, and she'll come and try to nibble on it.



We took her with us when we moved across the country and she was such a good sport! She hates cat carriers so we let her hang out with us in the car and she was super calm and awesome.



She's a good pal. :]

Smiles is beautiful! :)

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:D She says thank you haha

Such a cutie!!

Thanks for sharing her pics.

And I know what you mean by a cross-country move with cats -- did one myself, years ago (Belmar, NJ to L.A., with sightseeing stops built in ... took 2 weeks, all in all; left NJ with one cat and got to CA with two! ;) )

What a good thing (for you AND Smiles) that she took it so well.