[NineLivez]

Originally Posted by BovineWife

I'm a newbie trucker's wife and we have two cats. We've talked about taking me out on the road but we'd have to bring our two cats.

How do y'all manage to take care of your pets while on the road?

1.) I have a cat, trigger.
2.) I have met a lot of drivers with cats.
3.) Litter bog is in the passengers side, side box. I have it vented with a low speed 12 volt fan, a short leanth of dryer vent and a motion sensor that turns on the fan and a small light for 8 minutes. as for foo and watter, it sits on the passengers floor boards.
4.) Trigger (my cat) free roams while in motion, he has met the water bottle and stays out from under my feet and off the wheel while I'm driving.
5.) If they don't allow my cat, I don't haul their freight. I picked up a load in Portland,OR. going to Onalaska,WA. When I got to the reciever I was told to find a place to drop my cat before I would be allowed on the property to unload. I just wrote "refused" across the bills and went back to Portland. The shipper unloaded me and found a new carrier.
As for taking care of them, it's pretty much the same as at home.

Trigger, the trucker

[wot i life]

Never took a cat around in the truck but I,ve had plenty pussy in there...

























ops: Obvious kinda joke I know ops:

[Fredog]

my dog comes in pretty handy at tax time

[myminpins]

We brought our small dog along, who is litter trained. Never ran into anyone who cared if she was there or not.

We got a small water bowl that sat really well on the floor and never spilled. Had to be filled a lot but we always watched it.

Carrier? What's a carrier? :lol: Zoe spent most of her time on my lap or in her "bed" between the seats.

If they didn't allow pets, she stayed in the truck but there weren't many of them. If they minded pets and she had to go or I wanted to go out for a walk, I'd carry her off the property while Mike stayed behind and we'd go for a walk.

She rarely used her litter box but it was there if she needed it. We taught her to pee on command and on a leash and she was USUALLY good but HATED the rain - sookie baby!!

Here's a pic of her:

[MtFoxx]

Originally Posted by NineLivez

1.) I have a cat, trigger.
2.) I have met a lot of drivers with cats.
3.) Litter bog is in the passengers side, side box. I have it vented with a low speed 12 volt fan, a short leanth of dryer vent and a motion sensor that turns on the fan and a small light for 8 minutes. as for foo and watter, it sits on the passengers floor boards.
4.) Trigger (my cat) free roams while in motion, he has met the water bottle and stays out from under my feet and off the wheel while I'm driving.
5.) If they don't allow my cat, I don't haul their freight. I picked up a load in Portland,OR. going to Onalaska,WA. When I got to the reciever I was told to find a place to drop my cat before I would be allowed on the property to unload. I just wrote "refused" across the bills and went back to Portland. The shipper unloaded me and found a new carrier.
As for taking care of them, it's pretty much the same as at home.

Trigger, the trucker

Very Cool! Mine loves to ride in my pickup she won't go for the harley but runs to the window when I ride up. She'll sit on the bike after I get home. Great picture man...

[Soladad]

I have a lady trucker friend who is a breeder. She has traveled with two mother cats with litters on board. If you PM me I will give you her link to her cattery. She would have lots of info for you on how to survive with cats on board.

Soladad

[cideci]

I had one cat that went with me for over 11 years until I started woking local. Even then I would take her on occasion but since the truck went almost 24 hours a day it was too time consuming to load and unload each shift unless the other driver was off for vacation or whatever. More recently, we have taken 2 with us when we were running our own truck. One is almost 17 years old and had never been in the truck until she was about 7 but she adapted just fine and the other one is now about 5 or 6 and she started going after she had a seizure so we could monitor her to see what was causing the seizures and make sure she didn't hurt herself. Happy to report that seizures have ended and now when she hears the truck start up outside the house she runs to the front door and begs to go.