Feeding Your Pet During Travel
Published March 3, 2009
Most vets will tell you to avoid feeding your cat for up to six hours before a flight and not providing water for two hours before. However, some airlines require that a food and water bowl be located in the kennel or outside the kennel within the cat's reach.
Check with your airline to found out about their pet travel regulations. Some will state that cats must have food and water available every 24 hours, with water every 12 hours. In addition, you may need to provide a 24-hour feeding schedule for your cat before it can fly. Usually, you can attach this schedule to the outside of the crate, in fact, some pet travel regulations require this information on the kennel.
You should have your pet's identification and your identification on the outside of the kennel, as well.
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This is how Delta advertises their pet travel: "Pet Travel from Delta for happy healthy, jet-set pets" BUT this is what happened to me: On 1/22/11 we were having our newest family member, a kitten we named Snickers shipped to us from Utah. We paid for her to be in a climate controlled cargo & even paid an extra $70 for an expedited service called Delta Dash which should have meant she was the first thing off or on the plane. When we got to the airport, we waited, her flight came in at 8:40, they didn't bring her out to us until 9:30. (50 minutes after the plane landed) She was cold, pale, limp & unresponsive & had blood coming from her nose & mouth. My family rushed her to the emergency vet, but on the drive, she passed. The vet pronounced her DOA, she died from extreme hypothermia, she froze to death. Apparently, what we thought was a warm cargo bin, wasn't. When a plane lands, climate control is lost & she didn't stand a chance for 50 minutes in their cargo hold. If for any reason there is a holdup on the tarmac, our animals are trapped, unable to escape the extreme cold or extreme heat in the summer. Our family is devastated & Delta's response has been disgusting. They valued her life at 50 cents per pound if you can even believe that. Life to them is worth no more then 50 cents a pound -- DISTURBING! BUYER BEWARE!