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Whether by land or by air, we've got you covered! This page explains your options for transporting your cats to/from The Sunshine Home at This Old Cat. |
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Within the Continental US
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Within the continental US you have a few options in getting you cats to us: |
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Alaska and Hawaii
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Fly the cats into the Greater Rochester International Airport (airport code ROC), Rochester, New York. We now recommend Delta Airlines DASH. More information may be found at their web site on their Delta Airlines Pet Travel Options page. And be sure to tell them we sent you. Visit our Getting Ready to Fly page to learn about preparing your cat's carrier for shipment. |
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Worldwide
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We have experience importing and exporting cats from/to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, the South Pacific and Asia -- to date over 80 cats and almost 150,000 air miles -- so you can take comfort in knowing we know what to do and how to do it for the safety and comfort of your cats. Please contact us for more information. |
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Getting Ready to Fly
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A Word About Crates/Kennels
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A Note about Pets Traveling on Domestic Airlines...
Section 710 of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century requires U.S. airlines that perform scheduled passenger transportation now must file reports with the Department concerning incidents involving the loss, injury or death of animals during air transportation. An airline is required to submit a report for any month in which it experienced a loss, injury or death of a pet during air transportation and also forwards the reports to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which enforces the Animal Welfare Act.. DOT publishes these reports monthly on their Air Travel Consumer Report web page. Click on the YEAR to then get a list of each month's report. Click on that month's PDF VERSION link for the month's full report.
The Airline Animal Incident Statistical Summary of the reports appears in a table format, usually found on the very LAST PAGE of each month's report. To see each actual individual report filed by the airline (usually redacted to remove identifying information about individuals, including the owner of the pet.), click the airline's name shown under the CARRIER heading in the chart (if the chart totals are all zero that means there were NO reports for that month). While the number of pets that are lost, injured or died on any given airline on any given month may be only one or two out of every 10,000 pets shipped (less than two one-hundredths of a percent) it still is in your pet's best interest for you to know what has happened and what if anything the airlines are doing to continue to bring this statistic down even more.
It's been reported that 12 animals died while the care of all airlines in 2021. And absolutely, the death of just one pet is ONE too many! But also keep that in perspective: The Pets Tech folks estimate that approximately 1.2 million dogs and approximately 5.4 million cats are killed on the US roads each year. The Humane Society of the US estimates that up to 10,000 cats and dogs in the US die each year from exposure to ethylene glycol antifreeze.
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