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The correct way to prepare your cat for air travel is:

Don't take your cat on a frigging plane!

I know it happens all the time, because people are on the move and they have pets. But do you really want to hand a creature you love over to the airlines, without a steward, in what essentially amounts to a completely hostile and/or confusing environment to said creature. There have been almost two-hundred pets over the last decade that have been lost, or came back to their owners either dead or severely traumatized after flights. The airlines actually brag about this fact, because, percentage-wise, based on the millions-upon-millions of flights in that time period, it's almost nothing. How typical for the number crunching, bottom-feeders at the airlines. Look at what a good job they did!...ummm, percentage-wise, that is. Well, real-life-wise, it's one too many.

Oh, and speaking of the bottom, that's where your precious Fifi will go, to the bottom of the plane, where the pressurization system doesn't always work like it does in the cabin. Do you realize how traumatic this is for an animal? To be in the dark, ears pounding, surrounded by the noise of the jets. It's torture enough for little babies with their parents in the cabin. The babies don't realize they are on a plane where they are going up in the sky where the pressure changes. They have no idea how to adjust, so what do they do? They do what babies do best. They start squealing.

I know people will always take their animals with them on the plane, because they feel they have no other choice. I can't give you advice on how to do this, because I have never done it and I hope I never have to. See another article, do another Google search for information on that, but rest assured that giving your beloved feline some pills, putting her in a crate and handing her over to Joe-baggage-handler for a confusing, thunderous, de-pressurized and discombobulated trip to who-knows-where thirty-thousand feet in the stratosphere amounts to a certain form of unintentional animal cruelty.
Certainly not as bad as what Michael Vick did, but something to consider, none-the-less.

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