My mangey mog

[Guest]

Bill and Laurel Cooper say that they take their cat everywhere with them - to keep out the rats and mice.

How can this be? Surely there are rules regarding the transport of animals.

I only ask because we have a cat and was we the types to consider sailing off for a while - I don't know what to do with it.

At least one sensible answer per response please!

Geoff

 

[jamesjermain]

Cats out!

Quite right, the cruelty to rats and mice is too awful to contemplate. Cats should be banned from all boats forthwith.

At the moment there is no law which says a cat can't be taken on aboard, but landing one in some countries can be a problem.If you voyage the world with a cat, when you return to the UK you will either have to leave it in a country with more relaxed rabies laws or put it into quaranteen for six months.

Surely no one would tip a cat overboard on approaching the UK, would they?

JJ

 

[Guest]

Re: Cats out!

I would but SWMBO's a bit soft on that sort of thing.

Geoff

 

[ecudc]

Don't know much about it but I know that it is possible to get these new pet "passports" where the animal in question has all its jabs and gets a tag etc and then can leave and return to the UK as often as it's owners desire. I think there was a similar post on the live-aboard forum a week or so ago.

 

[chriscallender]

With its passport, the pet can only be brought back into the country with certain licensed carriers, ie you can't sail back into the UK with it, it has to come back over on the car ferry.

Also, there are only a limited number of countries that can be visited, but that includes a lot of Europe. Best to check the official government web page on this, which can be found from http://www.defra.gov.uk/animalh/quarantine/

 

[davel]

You can get those imitation cats from Nauticalia and the like.

These will give you the benefits of having a cat on board without all the complications of quarantine, pet passports and the like. Plus no need to clean up after it.

Don't know how they perform on the rats and mice front.

Dave L.

 

[BrendanS]

The rats and mice will soon nibble holes, and the stuffing will fall out

 

[Bergman]

Never mind the rats and mice if they see you with one of those things you will have the animal rights people demonstrating round your boat.

Apparently object to use of fur, so one V attractive young lady told me when they were demonstrating round a Nauticalia shop earlier this year.

 

[BrendanS]

PC madness gone totally berserk. They'll be boycotting teddy bear shops next!

V. good one in Henley if any anti's wish advice on where to go next, and I'm told Hamley's have a good stock of them <s>

 

[VicS]

I bought an immitation cat several years ago. Not one of those expensive ones from Nauticalia but a much cheaper one from a Lidl supermarket. It has been totally effective in keeping rats and mice off the boat!!

 

[Peppermint]

Is this the time

to launch a range of stuffed rats & mice? Go nicely with the lazy looking cats.

 

[Johnjo]

Has anyone seen the collection of stuffed kittens and masses of other animals
advertised on the t,v, The famous Jamaica Inn collection on Bodmin Moor in
Cornwall is up for sale, Anyone who wants them needs deep pockets!
Around £2.5 million is the figure being banded about down here.don't think
Nauticalia has anything in that league, mind you, one dead cat looks the
same as the next, unless it's been laying in the middle of the road for
a week!
cheers mike

 

[themount2]

Re: Cats out!

Of course not!
I would have done it just after I left.