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Traveling cats: how three pets from Manhattan travel the world

'29.07.2022'

Olga Derkach

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Three world-traveling Manhattan cats enjoy the high life. Felines Sponge Cake (Biscuit) - Scottish Fold, and British Shorthairs - Mocha (Mocha) and Donut (Donut) - walked around France and Italy with their owner Dan Nguyen and his wife Olivia. More about fluffy adventures the edition told New York Post.

And the trio don't just sit in hotel rooms or even in carriers. The trio - all two-year-old boys - posed in front of the Duomo in Milan, saw the Eiffel Tower and even traveled through the canals of Venice in a gondola.

And while the idea of ​​taking a lot of cats on a trip may seem crazy, if not impossible, Dan, a corporate lawyer, insisted that he couldn't leave them at home.

“We had several trips planned and wanted to take our pets with us. It was hard to leave the cats because we consider them our family,” Dan said. "We know it's a bit unconventional to travel the world with a cat, let alone three, but we love them and they love us, so it doesn't feel crazy to us."

To prepare the pets for outdoor walks, Dan and Olivia started practicing near their home in Midtown. In Central Park, a married couple gradually taught cats to walk not in carriers, but on a leash.

"They seem to enjoy being outside and exploring," Dan remarked. “They were happy when they started breathing fresh air and lounging by the lake playing in the grass.”

The kittens, who have almost 300 Instagram followers and 000 TikTok followers, had their first vacation in the countryside at the Disney World resort in Orlando, Florida.

“At first they were nervous, so they stayed in their backpacks,” Dan recalls. “But we started walking them around the resort on leashes, and they got used to it pretty quickly.”

This was soon followed by trips to San Francisco and Sacramento, California. As for getting there, “It was pretty easy,” he assured. “Mostly they just sleep on the plane. Kittens are relaxed and quiet. Sometimes other passengers on the plane do not even suspect that we have three cats with us.”

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Their first serious trip was Paris: “We put them on the cobbled streets, and they ran, examining every storefront, until they spotted a candy store,” says Dan. “Everyone who passed by stopped to watch these little kittens explore the shops of Paris.”

He then continued: “We took them to Venice, they liked it there. They were all sniffing and lounging near the canal.

“We let them run on the ground, but most of the time they prefer to ride on my shoulders for free,” Dan said.

And when the kids are left without walks for a long time, one of them definitely starts to feel sad.

“We didn’t take them outside for a week because of the extreme heat, and Biscuit was very sticky because he didn’t get the attention he usually gets when he goes outside,” the owner explained. “I always see him looking through the windows at all the people on the streets.”

“Mocha is super sweet. He allows other people to kiss him and is generally very relaxed with both people and other animals, says Dan. Donut is the most sociable of the three. He often practically begs to go outside: he lets us know by scratching at the front door and meowing.

The cats needed nothing more than a few vaccinations for their travels. However, for the family's upcoming trip to Switzerland this fall, the trio will receive their own European Union "pet passports".

“On social media, it seems like we travel all the time, but in reality it’s only about twice a year,” Dan said. “We have enough content to constantly post on social media because we always take pictures of our pets when we travel.”

This kind of consistent content has turned their world-traveling cats into social media celebrities.

“Passers-by constantly stop us in New York to say hello and pet the cats. People definitely know them,” remarked Dan, who takes them for a ride to Hell’s Kitchen, Koreatown, and Times Square.

The family tries to visit Fifth Avenue, Mocha's favorite coffee shop, as often as possible.

“Mocha loves Fifth Avenue. Something about all the glitter and lights makes him curious,” Dan explained.

Even Drew Barrymore recently posted a photo of the adventurous trio on her Instagram stories, as she is a fan of these cats. They have become so well known and loved that Dan is self-publishing Furry Adventurers: How to Train Your Cats for Outdoor Adventures, which will soon be available online.

“In the future, we plan to have more cats. Maybe in a year or two, because it’s already hard enough to travel with three, but we want more,” Dan shared his plans.

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