posted 03-01-2004 05:26 AM         

Well, needless to say, Camden showed him :-) He is 100 percent better and almost all of his fur is back! I was so happy.

The move didn't seem to affect any of my other cats.

posted 03-01-2004 06:19 PM         

But when I had to get him in the carrier for the move, he just freaked out! Probably because we had people over helping us move and he wasn't familiar with them. I don't know, but I had to pry him off the mattress and then he bit the palm of my hand and the underside of my forearm.

That was the worst pain I have ever felt. I have 10 tropical birds ranging from a macaw to 5 big cockatoos and a few parrots and have been bitten by them, but this was sooo much worse. And the birds can bite hard! (LOL)

But anyway, we both survived the move. And he is just as sweet as ever now and I don't hold it against him. I still have the scar on my hand though :-)

I don't know, I guess he was just really stressed. It was a very long trip. We drove from California to Missouri.

posted 03-02-2004 09:53 AM         

If this wasn't a meant to be move, I don't know what was. First, our place needed a lot of repairs, and we didn't think we would be able to sell the place, for the money we needed to move with.

But, as it turned out, the people that bought the place, just sold a huge warehouse in Sonoma county and needed to buy up land for tax purposes. So, the guy was into construction, and thought our place would be perfect for a family member that needed a place to stay.

But! Not only that, he needed to make a trip back to Arkansas to pick up some furniture that he had. He just sold a house of his own down that way. Anyway, he had a trailer, the type that holds racing cars. It had fluoresent lighting, and air conditiong!!! He offered to move all of our animals for us. So, we took him up on it! He hauled all of the cats, and all of the birds, in their cages, in the trailer. He had a Dodge Ram, 3500 dooley (not sure of that spelling) and our two wolf hybrid dogs road in the back of the pickup. And my husband and I, took our old cocker spaniel and american eskimo dog in our jeep. And we headed to the midwest.

Boy, what a trip that was. But everyone survived. The only stressed out animal was Camden.

I won't say that the other cats enjoyed the experience, but they didn't have any reactions to it.

Since we have been back here, we have adopted two more dogs :-o! One pitbull mix, who by the way, is extremely friendly and sweet. And the other, a black lab/irish setter mix. He's basically all black, but has the texture of fur and the type of ears an irish setter has.

I hope we never have to move again (LOL) It was an experience I don't care to do any time soon again.