Pawsley was adopted as a young kitten.
His breeder is a nice woman who tried her best to get the kittens used to car trips in their carrier.
Little trips, to McDonald's around the corner for example, she said, with lots of treats afterwards, so the kittens don't panic when the gotta go out to the vet to get their jabs and to get chipped and checked.
After Pawsley moved to his new family, he started his daily harness training.
He got into the harness for like 10 minutes everday - obviously didn't like it too much, but got used to it fast with the help of his favourite snacks. He soon started walking around to get to the snacks, but has loudly been complaining about the harness for quite a few weeks.
Some little trips in a cat stoller followed, with the harness on for safety reasons. In case he finds the way out of the stroller, he'd still be on the lead. The stroller was hated even more than the harness! But the training was necessary so he gets calmer, not only for trips to the vet, but also on vacations with his mum.
If you want to have a Ragdoll as your pet and best friend, you gotta be ready to spend an amazing amount of time with them, especially if you only adopt one of them!
They are clingy, loving little souls, and telling your neighbours to come over to give your Ragdoll some food while you're gone for a week or even more is nothing you should consider - they need your time, care and attention and hate being left alone. It harms their well being if they are left alone for long amounts of time.
Therefore it makes sense to try and get them used to travelling soon as possible, so you don't have to stay at home with them forever, but they can come on trips with you!
Same thing applies to other cat breeds, it's just worth mentioning that the Ragdoll breed is exremely clingy and some kind of doglike cat, that enjoys the human company a lot. So keep that in mind before you think about adopting one. 
If you are working 8 hours a day away from home or even more, a single Ragdoll probably wouldn't be so happy while you are gone!
When your Ragdoll gets older you can occasionally stay away for 6-10 hours. They will forgive you that.
But the younger they are, the more they depend on you. Pawsley is older than 6 months by now and still he never was left by himself for more than a maximum of 8 hours.
He's been about twelve weeks old when he went out for his first longer train journey.
We went from Cologne (Köln) in Germany to Hannover, which usually takes around 5 hours.
As everything that couold have gone wrong on this train journey actually did go wrong, we ended up travelling for 7 hours until we finally got to our hotel!
At the hotel Pawsley felt fine though. He got his travelling litter box with him and used it right away.
He got his own bowls and food with him and he enjoyed settling down, eating and resting a lot.
On the way he had a weewee in his stroller because no kitten can go without a toilet for 7 hours! We luckily had pee pads with us, so it was not dramatic at all. He travelled back on a fresh new pee pad.
This way, Pawsley learned travelling by bus, train and metro for the first time.
He then got taken along to trips to his grandma (Mombe's mum) who lives about an hour away by car. Pawsley is used to his harness by now, doesn't seem stressed or try to escape, so he can go in the car on the lead now, without a carrier. Pawsley mum doesn't drive, so she is next to him to watch him and make sure he doesn't disturb the driver. Which he definitely would! He is still a cat and not a perfectly educated human child - even though he often seems like it.
As Pawsley got used to train and bus journeys to the vet, to the park, he also learned travelling to grandma by train and bus. When train and bus are empty enough, he sometimes gets to travel on here without his carrier as well. He likes that much better than being caged in.
When caged in, the Pawsley can screm for hours... He never seems scared - which the vet confirmed, but he's very annoyed about it! He is annoyed about the harness too, because it stops him from going everywhere he wants, but as he loves doors and would jump out of the train or into strangers houses on every occasion, the lead is a must on trips!
Pawsley is an indoor cat as he lives quite close to a busy street and his family wouldn't risk him getting hurt.
With the harness Pawsley is still getting some outdoor time. Most of the time he can decide himself if he wants to come along on a walk or if he doesn't. Whenever it is rainy or cold outside, he usually isn't interested at all and won't be forced outside, because it's not fun to drag around a scremming cat!
By now he got all vaccines that are necessary for travelling further away.
Pawsley dad lives in the UK, so Mombe took Pawsley along to come and see him in February 2022.
As cats are not allowed on most routes from Germany to the UK, this trip ended up beeing a very complicated, long and expensive one!
Most airlines allow you to bring your pet (smaller than 8 kilogram) into the plane in a carrier. It can stay under the seat. But as the UK isn't part of the EU anymore, the rules are very different! And while Eurowings or KLM as exaples usually allow pets on board, they won't allow you to bring your pet to the UK because only certain routes are allowed.
So Pawsley's Mombe had to check them all out on the UK Government's website and found out - going by ferry from Holland was probably the cheapest way to get Pawsley over to his dad!
Unfortunately the ferries that are going straight to Newcastle in the North East of England (the endgoal) only allow pets if they stay in your car! As Pawsley Mombe doesn't have a car and is utterly scared of driving, she kind of didn't have another option than travelling all the way from Cologne to Rotterdam by train, and take a ferry from Europort to get to Hull, then take another train to get to the North East!
As this is a lot for a little cat, Pawsley and his mum made lots of stops on their way. Spent a night in Rotterdam, spent a night on the ferry and spent a night in Hull before they finally reached their holiday home and got to meet Pawsley dad in the North East of England.
Pawsley was calm on the trip. Which means - he was allowed out of the carrier on the trains, so he was able to enjoy his journey. The train from Hull to Newcastle was so stuffed unfortunately that there was no way to let him walk around freely, so he ended up screming for an hour on the Quieter Coach!
Soon as Pawsley and mum arrived at their endgoal, all the regrets and worries were gone though, as Pawsley LOVES the holiday home so much! He settled in right away, ran up and down the stairs, enjoyed all the space he got! He loves his dad who he's been waiting to see in ages!
Pawsley has a little sister (Bellatrix) and two cousins (Geoff and Lucy) up in England (non-biological relatives - they are Pawsley dad's and Pawsley great-grandma's cats!).
He did not get to meet them yet - because you know what cats are like - you never know how they gonna react on a new cat's presence! But mum was happy to give them a cuddle.
Pawsley and mum are currently spending some time up here.
The way back looks pretty similar.
Wish them luck! It is a long journey but so worth it!