Looking for recommendations on how to move a cat from China to America

Post date: 2019-12-11 21:26:34

We are currently fostering a friend's cat, and we really like the cat. It has a personality very well suited to what we want in a cat. The catch is that sometime next year we will likely move from China to America, and I'm currently swimming in bureaucracy and don't want to add to that. I want to find a company to help manage the process that doesn't cost an arm and a leg...and will make it as un-traumatic as possible as the cat.

I'm not really sure what the best options are. I did some googling and there are a ton of companies that do this, I even contacted one...and it was 4500USD. I realize that the cat has to get a plane ticket etc, so it won't be cheap, but 4500USD is quite expensive for a cat...so I'm curious if anyone can recommend anything. I mean, we _can_ do it on our own, but we'd need to do bureaucratic stuff here, bureaucratic stuff in the US (the cat would need to be quarantined), and whatnot, and my life is really swimming in bureaucracy at the moment and I just don't want to take on any more if I can avoid it. Plus, I feel bad for the cat having to be stuffed in a small space for 12 hours :( though maybe that's unavoidable...

Regardless, looking for advice! If there are ways to do it myself that would reduce the trauma to the cat, I'd welcome that too!

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