Travel kit

[Melissa]

What sort of thing should I bring with me for travelling this weekend for the car as well as where I am staying for my ratties.

 

[mamarat2]

For travel in the car I always make sure they have some type of moist food to eat, like fruit (grapes, watermelon, etc) and I will usually freeze a few peices of fruit beforehand to put in their carriers at the last minute that way they have something cool to munch on. I don't give them water bottles for car rides as they always end up flooding the carriers, if it is a long trip set the water bottles aside for the drive and make a stop ever two hours or so to offer them the water.

A quick trick we have found for water bottles, the standard 16 oz sipper tube attachment for a water bottle will also fit a bottle of water you can buy in the convenience store think it is a 16 oz bottle.

 

[jorats]

That would be pretty much my advice too. :wink:

 

[Melissa]

I will be bringing their big cage but do you suggest having them in a smaller one for the trip?

 

[mamarat2]

If their "big cage" has lots of levels then ya I would suggest having them in a smaller cage for the actual travelling. I am always worried someone will fall off of a level if I hit the brakes in the car too hard or something.

 

[Melissa]

No it is just one level because they are still very young.