Thank you so much for your advice Salty. We have made this trip serveral times with our 2 dogs but never with our cats. They are all indoor cats. My wife was a vet tech and has had cats and dogs all her life. She has already given me the drill. We are going to try to do it in one day. In our car we can do it in 17 hours. But a truck pulling a trailer and our car following it pulling a small trailer it might take a little longer. We will be doing many breaks. Two cats will be in a medium cage and the other 2 in their own carrier. Also a good part of it will be at night. Hopefully that will calm them down. When we get to our house up north we have 2 very large cages we will put them in for the first week. That will be down in the basement were it is cool. After that we will introduce them to the house. Our problem we have is we have our oldest son who has the truck and we can have him only a few days for he has to get back to work. I know it will be a ordeal but we are already 60% pack and I planned to have the 2 trailers pack and ready to go a week before we leave. So when my son drives up to our door all he will have to do is hitch the trailer up to truck.
I know this sounds like I am a control freak I really am not. I was in construction all my life and I always had to overseer the job and coordinate everything. So thats my specialty I am good at organizing. We are only going to have the cats and dogs in the car with us. We will not pack the car tight with anything so the animals will have plenty of air. When we arrive on April 29 our old cat will have couple of days to rest until her 22 brithday. My wife and I are in our late 50's we full will know it is going to be a strain on all of us. After we get there we will take some much needed rest before we go to work. Again Thank you for all your wonderful advice. Your wisdom is truly your beauty and your advice is very much appreciated. Totally ADD