[Albion Wilde]

...cats adapt.

Some do, some don't. Ours sobbed and wailed like a baby for weeks after we moved, starting at dawn. I would have to get up and hold her and walk her like a colicky baby.

[I Buried My Guns]

"...the cat hates upping sticks..."

I would hate it too; sounds painful in the anal area.

"...Ours sobbed and wailed like a baby for weeks after we moved, starting at dawn. I would have to get up and hold her and walk her like a colicky baby...

Our cat did that too. I thought I was the only one whose cat was a big puss! Even now she waits for me to get home everyday, and she presents herself at the driveway, mewing sadly and loudly. Before I even go inside the house I have to pick her up and hug her for a few minutes to make her shut the hell up!

[ravingnutter]

I agree with Albion...my cat never has adjusted and we didn't even move to a new location. We lived in a mobile home when we first moved on our Hill Country property and my cat (then a kitten) was an indoor/outdoor cat and loved to lay on our couch. Then we built a log home 8 years later on that same property and moved the mobile home out. She would not come into the new house, if I forced her in she howled and howled no matter what I did to make her feel comfortable, such as putting her favorite blanket on the new couch.

That was six years ago and to this day, she will not come in the house and she runs if I try to pet her because she thinks I am going to make her come in the house. She's so old now that we just feed her on the side porch where she has privacy and let her be rather than upset her. She has made her own little "home" in the shed and keeps the mice away.

[Yorlik803]

Since the cat is coming from another country, it would have to be quarantined. That would be stressful for a animal. They should move her to a better neighbor.