Do your pets give you an attitude when they see you packing a suitcase?

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Alice wanders around looking confused when she sees suitcases.

The late Ralph used to love it, though, because suitcases made great places to sit/sleep

My cat made the packing difficult because she wanted to see everything.

They do not like to see the suitcses. :D

Do you board the cats while you're away?

They get the house. So I'm sure all this biting is an act. Secretly they're pleased!

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Your kitties probably miss you!
I talk to all of the animals around here. I think the wild birds have adjusted to having me around, one of the black-capped chickadees has tried to land on me a few times. Hummingbirds will land to eat within three feet of where I'm siting. I'm going to miss all of my creatures this summer.

Because half the time we take them with us when we leave town. The inlaws have a mountain place that they love

My golden retrievers made it a little challenging. Quite a few of the hotels have a size limit of 40 pounds.

She knows it means I'm going outside without her. :(

I love it that they understand our moods and actions.

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they are just like kids! :D

:bounce: :toast: :party: :loveya:

When I moved one of the duffel bags onto my bed she fluffed all of her feathers and started trembling.
x( Damn that makes me sad.

She gets skittish, sprints around the hours arbitrarily, etc.

Really she will but she isn't happy about it.

I had a cat that would sit on the suitcase and hiss so we couldn't open it to pack. She had more attitude than one cat should ever have.

I love cats. I don't care about the attitude unless the cat is in attack mode. :scared:

My dogs get almost hysterical. They know I'm going some place without them. :( And now I travel a lot for business... :(

Frodo stays in her home but she doesn't have anyone to give parrot hugs to while I'm gone. x(

One time my husband packed his suitcase before showering, leaving the suitcase open. My dog managed to kick most of the clothes out of the suit case and was lying in it when my husband got out.

I hope your husband didn't mind taking a little extra fur with him.

I guess they want to come along because they think I'm leaving them.

Next time I'll be packing up, they're coming with me--because I'm moving. Maybe I can use the suitcase for a cat carrier :D

You'd need to poke lots of air holes in the suitcase. Buying a carrier is cheaper.

but left a small part open. Guess what--he crawled out!

They insist that it's theirs. But I'm welcome to stay and play with them and spoil them rotten while they lounge inside the suitcases. :)

:) My cats are greedy little attention hogs. They will put themselves between you and anything you're paying attention to.

The dog whines and gets this sullen look on his face. The cats make a point of sitting on the clothes I'm packing. :D

when she was packing for Germany. I swear the cats can count-----I left the house with husband and 3 daughters, come back from the airport and the cats keep going back to the door waiting for one more!

It is smarter than you think.

How long will your daughter be gone?

she was home for the holidays. The lucky pup is doing her freshman year of hs at The International School in Stuttgart.

for more than a few days. And a vet once told me that the reason a cat does that is not to punish the person, but to leave a scent marker so the person can find his way home because the cat thinks his person got lost. Sounds weird; but with cats, who knows?

But I think your vet's explanation makes more sense.

We'd pack for camping too and the two cats I had would hop in the boxes and duck down. No, I told them, you'r not going. Same with the suitcases, my cats would jump in them and lay on the clothes. I sure miss them.

I'm sorry your cats aren't there.

a few years back when I live in Santa Monica. She looked liked my neighbor's cat who died. I didn't know about it until my neighbor told me that the neighbor's cat was gone but came back. The landlord told her and then he took that cat too. He told me he thought I just had the one cat. Then 2 years ago my other cat had to be put down because of kidney failure. I'm still sad about these events.

Thanks.

Two of them are actually pretty good travelers but they don't like the process of getting in the car. So I have learned to round up the cats ahead of time, then pack the car.

Mz Pip
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Trick the little guys!

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First she looks at me, then at the suitcase and cries. Then she goes to hide.

And does anyone else find welcome home "presents" from their pets living room when they get back? :eyes:

She misses you. I can understand her feelings but the presents really aren't necessary as a bribe to keep you home.


I did have one dog many years ago that would show his displeasure of being left at home until that one day when I caught him as the elevator doors closed down the hall. I forgot something. He was surprised in the act!!! :mad:

The others, well they are probably glad to see us go...

They get upset when we bring out the big feeder....

It's when we get back that the cats are on full ignore mode....

Cats are the best at the full ignore mode. Dogs can't hold out.

Frodo was too happy to see me back home last week to bite me. We were all a little surprised at her lack of a bad attitude. The Red-fronted Macaw that lives here would bite her former owner for days after Joanne returned from a vacation.

the city for the day...but he's getting better :thumbsup: like i mentioned some time ago, he used to give me the ass end of the cat for a day or two :rofl:

posting from the san fran hilton, more or less downtown...but i haven't seen paris yet :-)

:hi:

:hi: Sugar Smack and I are on a count down to Road Trip Time!

very sad voice. Big time guilt-trip.

I'm going to miss Frodo more than anything else on this trip but she is better off at home. :(

:hi: Your Gabby is a beautiful Amazon!

Osceferia used to pee in my suitcase when I put it on my bed. So I wound up putting her in the bathroom till I was done packing. That was back in the 80's and 90's when there were real jobs for middle America. Some time latter on , she learned to pee and poop in the toilet and never looked back on the litter box.





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We haven't had much experience with the pooch regarding travel unless he's going with us. But a few weeks ago Mr 'pede had to go to the Albuquerque VA for heart tests. He packed the afternoon before for his 7AM flight and he said while he was packing the doggie would sniff at what was going in the bag, lay down and do the sad eyes, sniff some more, more sad eyes.

I hope Mr 'pede is feeling okay.

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right by where iwas packing and watch my every, every move.

he HATED it.

there you'd be suitcase in hand -- hand on the doorknow -- opening the door -- and he'd watch you the whole time.

ears alert -- eyes following you everywhere.

even though he knew he wasn't going -- he wouldn't give up that something would change..

he wasn't as interested in going as he was in my staying -- home was heaven to sport.

He's forgiven me for "abandoning" him for a week, but that first day back he snubbed me. Now he is back to following me around like a puppy and hissing at boyfriend as usual.

I'm not sure which is worse, their "objections" to my leaving or their "near death" activities when I drive back home.

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We are attached, the SIX of us: two dogs, two cats, two people. They have no problem complaining, loudly, when their food or water is low or when insufficient attention has been offered.

On edit: 2+2+2=6 ugh

Evie spectates. Plato snoozes. Neutrino is nowhere to be found. Quark whines. Imhotep ignores the whole thing until someone puts their shoes on and Immie thinks it's time to go outside, then howls when he finds out he's not invited.

Go fig. :P

One time he jumped into the suitcase and just stood there. A few minutes later I heard the sound of squirting water. I said, "Damnit Jim, Scott is pissing in the suitcase." And sure enough. And that cat was ten years old and he had NEVER peed anywhere outside of his litter box, so we knew that he was doing it because he was MAD. Did it right in front of both of us too, as if to say, "SO THERE."

used to chase my feet and bite at them when I put my coat and/or shoes on. With the shoes on, it wasn't so bad, but just with the coat...my toes were attacked! x(

He also used to know about 2 weeks before I started packing (for moving). He'd get jittery, anxious, testy and squawky.

Does Frodo like going in the car? Mine used to love it - I think he was rather amazed that he could be moving without any effort on his part. :D

Our current dog gets very depressed if he sees a suitcase being packed. And, even if most of the family is remaining in the house, you can tell that he isn't comfortable until all the family have returned home. In fact, when he sees us packing he sometimes goes to the garage and sulks -he won't come out to say goodbye and, when you go to say goodbye to him, he'll have a very sad expression

We had to put our previous dog down when we left our country of residence to come to where we live now-she was old and in poor health. She always got very depressed when we saw us packing and, since the removalists were coming on the day she was going to be put down, we arranged for my sister to take her for a walk so that she wouldn't see the vans coming in and our stuff going out in boxes. Unfortunately the removalists arrived early and she saw it all :cry:

Once my cats see the suitcases, they either sit on them, as if to say 'I'm going too,' OR when they get shooed off the bags and reality sets in, they totally diss me.

But they are always happy to see me when I come home, I get licks and head butts.

When I went to CA for a business trip a couple of weeks ago, I set the suitcase on the bed to pack - my Janeway started first to claw at the exterior fabric. I chased her away, and put some lingerie and whatnot in a small zipper compartment - but failed to zip it up. Left the room for 2 minutes to get something from the dryer. When I came back, she had emptied everything from the zipper compartment onto the floor and was sitting inside the suitcase, giving me the "Where the hell do you think you're going this time?" look.

It took her three hours to "talk" to me again when I got home several days later. :D

And gives you dirty looks. The others get anxious... it's kinda sad, actually. (these are cats)

T.J. get his little nose out of joint as soon as he sees a suitcase and it doesn't end until we've returned, unpacked and stored the suitcases out of site.

my dog gives me the cold shoulder when I get in the shower cause she knows I am getting ready to leave and she doesn't know if shes going or not.

but I stopped traveling after Pad Thai left a turd by the door when I returned from a business trip about five years ago.

to go to the gym

my cats run around looking at me suspiciously and try to sleep in the suitcase

My kitties will lay down in the suitcase, or on top of it if I close the lid. That, or they'll drape themselves over whatever items/clean clothes I put next to the suitcase for packing.


I takes them about a day after I get back home to fully warm up to me again. I think they're waiting to make sure I'm really going to stay home.

He won't get further than 5 ft away from me. He just lays down and stares up at me with his big eyes. In general, he acts very, very depressed.

i don't think there is any getting around it

bird talk magazine once advised that when you plan to travel, you actually tell the parrot how long you will be gone and count out the days you will be gone showing the number of days with your fingers -- believe chris davis advised this, but i'm not sure now

in any case let them know you will be coming back

in my case they already know that but they still like to give the old hairy eyeball when they see that i am going somewhere

even tho i know they're getting spoiled rotten by the housesitter!

dogs would probably understand if you explained it to them too, hell, they know you're going anyway, i think it's the fact that you at least make an effort to explain and show you respect their concerns that helps -- a little