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Traveling with your cat can bring a lot of stress if you are not prepared. These air travel tips for traveling with your cat will help to ease your anxiety.  Your trip may include travel by planes, trains and automobiles.  My goal is to help you fly stress free!  These tips by Krissi Ann will help.

Some animals love to ride in the car; others leave the house only when they have to (usually to visit the vet for their annual shots). Regardless if you are going on holiday vacation, relocating across the nation or just taking your cat to the vet, most likely you’ll need to take a trip with your pet at some point.

Here are some tips to make traveling with your pet fun and easy:

Make sure your pet is in good health before traveling. If you have a cat who is older, ill or pregnant, it may not always be safe for them to travel. If uncertain, take your pet to the veterinarian for a checkup prior to departing on your trip. You should also make sure your pet is current on all of her vaccinations, including rabies shots.

Along with your typical cat travel items (food, water, bed, cat carrier, etc.) you may need to provide documents showing your pet is up to date on her vaccinations (if traveling by air). If your pet isn’t used to traveling, consider taking her on short trips prior to going on a long trip.

Having proper id tags on your family pet is important when traveling. Pets could get separated from their owners when traveling by air, thus it is critical to have current tags on your cat or perhaps a microchip to ensure that your cat can be identified and returned to you should you be separated.

Microchip procedures are safe, quick and becoming more popular as cat hospitals, animal shelters and kennels are utilizing scanning equipment to read microchips and help reunite pets and owners.

Have additional supplies for your cat handy in the car and when you arrive at your destination. Along with your pet’s favorite toys, here are some other important pet supplies to take on your trip: extra leashes and collars, an old blanket or towel to set underneath your pet’s carrier for easy clean-up, your pet’s bed if she has one, a food and water bowl set, extra treats, cat grooming supplies, extra litter and litter pans for cats, and a first aid kit for pets.

Remember to bring extra food for your cat in case their favorite brand is not for sale where you are traveling to. In the event that you have to switch your pet’s food, do it gradually over several days rather than all at one time. Also, be sure you provide your cat fresh drinking water at every opportunity.

Lastly, be sure you use a durable cat carrier for your cat. If you are traveling by airplane, make certain you have an airline approved cat carrier that meets the airline’s specifications.

In general pet carriers for cats should be sturdy (hard sided or durable plastic), and properly ventilated. It should be adequate size to allow your pet to stand up, turn around, and lie down in comfortably. Be sure the door to the crate is secure so your cat can’t get free from the carrier. It’s also a good idea to line the bottom of the cat carrier with a towel to help keep your pet comfortable and to keep the carrier from leaking. And of course, make certain the carrier has both your pet’s name and your name, as well as contact details so that you can be reached in the event your cat becomes separated from you.

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Here are some air travel tips to help you with lost luggage.  It’s become a hassle for so many people so it’s a good idea to prepare for it just in case.

Can you believe this?

My pilot friend Joe, was flying from Orlando to Miami and guess what?

The airline lost his luggage!

It was a half hour flight.  It just doesn’t seem possible.

Unfortunately, it IS possible and it even happens to pilots while on the job.

I want to give you some air travel tips to help you in case it happens to you. I’ve included an article below from Arun G. Chitnis because I couldn’t have said it any better myself.

Lost Luggage: Air Travel Tips For Surviving An Emergency

Knowing what to do if you have lost luggage in transit is one of the most vital travel tips you will ever learn. You can lose luggage anywhere and at any time during a long trip, no matter how you travel.

Tourists lose luggage regularly in taxis, on buses and trains and anywhere in between a trip. Sometimes, luggage is stolen. However, lost luggage is a problem most commonly associated with airline travel.

So what do you do if your bag fails to appear on the airline’s baggage carousel? The first point on your agenda is to report this fact to the airline’s baggage office or window. This is usually where lost luggage reports are recorded and addressed. It is bound to be on the same level as the baggage conveyor.

Once there, you locate the baggage clerk and hand him your baggage stub. Do keep your cool and avoid panicking or blowing up at the poor fellow. Sometimes luggage for one flight arrives on another flight because of logistical problems.

Once you have reported lost luggage at the airline’s baggage claim counter or office, a clerk will attempt to track your bag on the computer. If it turns out that your luggage is not arriving on another flight, another search level kicks in.

The clerk will start making calls at all possible locations where your lost luggage may have wound up. If this yields no results, he will mobilize the baggage handlers to make a search for it.

At this point, input from you will be very useful. You should offer a detailed description of your individual luggage pieces. If you have a picture of your stuff – even one taken of you by a friend that shows your luggage too – give it to the baggage handlers.

After you have done this, do something to divert yourself. The matter is now out of your hands and there is no point in stewing or getting in their way!

Next, you will need to fill out a claim form in which you will need to give some personal information. This will include a description of your lost luggage. Give the baggage clerk contact details of wherever you will be over the next few days. Ensure that you ask for and stash away a photocopy of this form, too!

You will receive assurances to the effect that the airline will try to trace your lost baggage, and that you will receive it if it turns up. Listening to that can be pretty discouraging, because it confirms that your luggage is now officially lost.

There is, of course, an off-chance that the baggage clerk will find that your luggage had arrived on the baggage carousel. If this is the case, your baggage is most probably stolen. This then becomes a case for the police and insurance company.

If your lost luggage is traced, the airline company will definitely intimate you and return it to you. If not, most large airlines will do what they can to replace your lost luggage itself. They might offer to give you luggage pieces that match your lost ones closely (however, do not count on it!).

It is your legal right to receive compensation for the contents of your luggage. There is a limit to your entitlement, of course. It varies according to the airline in question. In any case, find out the airline’s reimbursement policy should you choose to purchase replacements for items lost in your luggage during transit.

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© Arun Chitnis is a professional content and copywriter, proof-reader and editor. He wields his pen on a diverse range of topics, but his primary areas of interest are medical and lifestyle issues, family dynamics, parenting, natural health, home improvement, real estate, humor and fiction.

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