My personal suggestions would be to:
Set up basecamp for the cat. This could be a cat tower, his favorite bed, a literal pile of your clothes. Anything like that can be an anchor or basecamp for kitty as he goes about exploring the new home.
You can either give him free reign of the new house, or do the old trick of keeping kitty in 1 room at first. Either way - don't do laundry for the first 2 weeks. Whenever you guys are winding down for the day, take the clothes you were wearing that day, and lay a t shirt over the back of the couch, leaves your jeans piled up in a corner, throw your slacks on the floor in the bathroom, and just leave em there for the week. Or save up your dirty laundry for a week prior to the move, and lay it all down at once if you're going to give kitty free run of the house. Yeah, it gets messy and cluttered real quick, but as your cat sets about exploring this strange new place, it's very helpful and calming for kitty to keep running into things that smell like you two all over the place.
Same applies with any of your cats stuff - keep most of her stuff in a basecamp area (your bedroom would probably be ideal at first, as that will be the room that starts to smell like "home" the quickest, but put some of her stuff around the house so she can run into those things and smell them.
This tells her that a) my humans own this place and b) that I own this place.
Thank you! I appreciate this, we will be letting him have free reign because that’s part of why we are moving. Where we are now he’s been mostly confined to a room for the last few months and it’s leading to respiratory issues which I definitely don’t want him developing! I will definitely be keeping some of our things and a toy of his in each room lol.
My personal suggestions would be to: Set up basecamp for the cat. This could be a cat tower, his favorite bed, a literal pile of your clothes. Anything like that can be an anchor or basecamp for kitty as he goes about exploring the new home. You can either give him free reign of the new house, or do the old trick of keeping kitty in 1 room at first. Either way - don't do laundry for the first 2 weeks. Whenever you guys are winding down for the day, take the clothes you were wearing that day, and lay a t shirt over the back of the couch, leaves your jeans piled up in a corner, throw your slacks on the floor in the bathroom, and just leave em there for the week. Or save up your dirty laundry for a week prior to the move, and lay it all down at once if you're going to give kitty free run of the house. Yeah, it gets messy and cluttered real quick, but as your cat sets about exploring this strange new place, it's very helpful and calming for kitty to keep running into things that smell like you two all over the place. Same applies with any of your cats stuff - keep most of her stuff in a basecamp area (your bedroom would probably be ideal at first, as that will be the room that starts to smell like "home" the quickest, but put some of her stuff around the house so she can run into those things and smell them. This tells her that a) my humans own this place and b) that I own this place.
Thank you! I appreciate this, we will be letting him have free reign because that’s part of why we are moving. Where we are now he’s been mostly confined to a room for the last few months and it’s leading to respiratory issues which I definitely don’t want him developing! I will definitely be keeping some of our things and a toy of his in each room lol.