Hello everyone, my name is Annaëlle and this is Luna. This is my cat

and if you follow us for a long time, you know that this is a new location we moved back from Canada to France and

While were living in Canada, we adopted this

Baby cat she's not a baby. She's 14 years old

She's a Birman cat

and today I wanted to talk about how we went from Canada to France with a cat and how

How she handled the moving process what

Administrative paper, we had to fill and stuff like that.

So this is going to be a rather long video

Grab a cup of tea and if you have a specific question or if you are looking for something in particular

There would be time code over there and in the description so that you can click

and skip the parts that you don't want to watch

Quick disclaimer first, my experience is not going to be the same as yours.

My cat is not your cat. So

what I tell is not the only

experience

Available. I'm pretty sure some people already have already done this video

But I wanted to talk about my experience and give you a little tips and advice on what I've done so

This is Luna. She's a burman cat.

She's 14 years old. She is a very calm cat

We adopted her two years ago

before that

We don't know much about her story

I know that she has been with another family with a baby and other cats and

That her vaccinations were not

Done so we had to redo that

If your cat is already vaccined and all that stuff

there was a part that you won't need to know

Because she's a burman

She is quite small.

Even if she's 14.

She's super light

I guess she is a little bit under three kilograms and

She has breathing issue that's species of the cat as does that she had a little bit of a heart problem

So if she stressed she might go into cardiac arrest

But she's 14 once again. So that's pretty okay for age

So due to this condition we didn't wanted her to go in the cargo area of a plane

We wanted her to be in the cabin with us

Some flight company don't allow cats to be in the cabin unless

They are service animals

because she's very small

We are lucky to do not have to care about the weight that the airline company allows

But we did care about the size of the luggage. We already had

a luggage for her and it was too big for Air France

And Air Canada and Air Transat didn't allow cats on the cabin

So the only choice we had was Corsair, but I guess if we had chosen a smaller

carrier bag for her we could have gone with

Canada and Air France.

So we had to buy an extra ticket for her

when you buy your tickets on the website, you can call the

Sale service, I guess and you say I want to add my caton it.

I guess it was

130 CAD

We had to state her age her race

So she was allowed to have a space on the plane

now we did choose our

Seat on the plane. It was an extra

$20, I guess

and we choose the row that

Down side from three to two seats. That way we had still a bit of space on our left side

Well, we knew that she could be protected. So that was very nice

She wasn't between our legs or under the seat. She really had

her own space

So about the more administrative part to go from France to Canada is not the same thing as going to

Canada to UK for example, you might want to talk to your vet about that

what I'm going to talk about is to go from

Quebec to France so might be a little bit different for you

We had to go to the vet to make sure that all her

vaccine were

okay, as I mentioned before she did not have vaccine for

rabbies and stuff like that. So we had to do it.

I think it was three months in advance and

Then we had another

Vet

visit I guess it was three weeks in advance to make sure that

Everything was okay for her

including parasites

her heart issue

Breathing problems and stuff. They had a paper to fill in blue ink that's very important blue ink

It was a certificate of good health of our cat that we had to give to another

place

called the ACIA

that read the paper we had to fill another form and

They stamped it. It was $20 and

The paper basically said we

confirm that this cat is in good health and she won't bring any parasites or not

Allowed stuff into your country. T

hat's the paper that you need to give to

the border.

the Canadian one and the French one.

We also have to give the passport of our cat

She already had one her previous human gave us her passport. So

That was very good. She had a digital implant with our information

on her back the back of her head and

So we had to make sure that these informations

still where relevant and we put the French address where we can stay

I think we need to change it because we just moved

I had to sign a bunch of papers as well saying

I wasn't going to sell her back in France that she was going to stay with us

If you were looking to sell or I don't know give your cat to someone else in another country

I guess there is additional

paper to fill

Sorry, I can't help you with that. But you can ask your vet about that

our vet, what's really helpful about all the people we have to fill in and and

the Canadian

Quebec website has a bunch of information you can search

the French one

not so much, but I'll put all the links in descriptions so that

If you're looking for these files in particular you can find them

And that's about it on the paper of slash

administrative forms

on to the travel itself we

Weren't allowed to give Luna food or water and because she was kinda trapped on her

bag she

Wasn't that hungry, but we managed to give her some water because

For an older cat it's kind of important that she drinks

so

Once we were in the plane really settled in we gave her some water.

We are really lucky to have a very quiet cat

She didn't cry that much

she

did meow once

Because she had peed on her bag

So what we planned on doing was

to put

It I think called a pee pad

it is something specific for dogs training, but we couldn't find one so we bought a

older people

Bed sheet that we cut in 4.

so that we can replace it whenever she was peeing.

So she peed twice

On it and she started crying on that

I can't remember exactly because I was sleeping but my partner Nicolas

did change her on the

baby

Thing in the toilets.

So that was very easy

If your cart is not that calm

I guess there is some medication you can give them.

I read about some collars that have

some pheromone or

essential oils that you can give to your cats

because Luna was very calm and

She didn't really respond usually to either catnip or things like that.

We didn't want to

Bother with a plastic collar that we didn't like very much

Because they don't have the quick release on it

and the vet didn't recommend her to have some medication

because of her heart issue

So because she was very calm

we didn't give her any medication,

but that is something that you can think of for your cats if

the vet is okay with that.

one thing that we were kinda worrying about is that if someone complains about being

allergic to cats

I read that Luna is hypoallergenic

Because she's a birman, but that's not a argument that you can say

on a plane

because we booked her flight in advance

I guess people were aware that they were going to be a cat

or at least they didn't mention having any issues with it.

The person in front of us was kinda happy to see a cat. So that was good and

Because she was so discrete

People didn't even notice that she was here. So that was good.

She was in her carrier for a total of 15 hours

The plane was seven hour long and we have to be like two hours before the flight in the queue

Plus the

transport and

stuff that was a bit overwhelming and she definitely was happy to get out of the

carrier in the end

we gave her some water and some food as soon as we were on the

House, we were staying

and she had a litter tray with kinda of some different litter.

So she was not

not very happy about it, but she didn't

Litter outside

After the moving process we kept her on a leash

Every time we we went outside

Just because we wanted her to know where she was and where her food was.

We took her to the vet and he said

That nothing was wrong with her. Her heart was fine. She kinda had a issue with her

Join, she's starting to develop arthritis, so she had some

Pellets for that but she's fine now that don't have to jump

That much on things because we are on the flat house.

She'll have her

Toys and that's that has her smell and hair all over it. So

we kept giving her thing that had a smell to give a

some point to

Get attached to

basically everything changed on her life and for us human too.

it's the stressful process and she can

sense that so

that's always the tricky things to know if youre cat is stress because of you or

because of the situation, but I

Hope that this video helps you if you are going through this process as well.

Let me know if you have any question about

the moving process or the cats

Even if you have a very specific situation I try to help you as much as I can

Let me know in the comment section

and if you like this kind of educational video on expat life and moving

From country to country

I give it give the video a thumbs up

So I know I can do more of that and I hope to see you next time. Bye