Illinois pet owner spent $23,000 for his cats to travel world 10 times in 2 years

A man has spent $23k walking astir nan world pinch his 2 cats – visiting nan Eiffel Tower successful Paris and exploring nan canals successful Amsterdam.

Owner Lazar Joksimovic, 27, sewage his 2 British Shorthairs, King Louie and Todd, successful 2023.

Since then, Lazar, and his wife, Kathleen Cheng, 28, a aesculapian student, person taken their cats to 10 countries – including Siberia, Spain, France and Mexico.

The cats will recreation pinch Lazar and Kathleen by level successful nan aisle, either sitting connected a chair aliases successful a carry-on.

Lazar said he will salary upwards of $600 a travel for King Louie and Todd to recreation pinch them.

He said nan cats emotion walking truthful overmuch that he could not ideate leaving them behind.

“When we sewage Todd and Louie, we trained them to beryllium adventurous astir nan city,” Joksimovic, a contented creator, from Chicago, Illinois, said. “Chicago is simply a large city, and erstwhile we sewage them, we gradually exposed them to nan sound of nan city. I wanted to return them everyplace pinch me, they bask going retired and exploring. Louie is perpetually begging to spell outside. I person ever loved traveling, truthful I thought why not return them pinch me.”

In August 2023, Joksimovic brought location King Louie, and nan pursuing month, he sewage Todd.

As he wanted to beryllium capable to return them traveling, Joksimovic would return King Louie and Todd astir Chicago to get utilized to large noises.

“After getting them, we utilized to spell to parks and shopping malls to get them utilized to large noises,” Joksimovic added. “They were very adaptable. a week aft getting them, we started taking them outside. We gradually exposed them to noisy environments for illustration shopping malls and nan metropolis center.”

Louie and Todd’s first travel was to Lazar’s location metropolis of Toronto, Canada, earlier Lazar and Kathleen took them to Mexico City successful April 2024.

Lazar said nan four-hour formation was “easy” for them, and Mexico City felt “very peaceful” compared to Chicago.

“They were 8 months aged erstwhile we went to Mexico City, we were location for 5 days,” Joksimovic shared. “It was a four-hour flight. They did very well, by past they had gone astir each nan large areas successful Chicago. For them, Mexico City felt very peaceful, nan cardinal is to get nan cats desensitized to large environments truthful they are utilized to it.”

After visiting Mexico City, Lazar took Todd and Louie connected a European travel – visiting Hungary, Netherlands, Croatia and Montenegro.

He said that Louie and Todd loved strolling done nan streets of Paris and exploring nan “tranquil” canals of Amsterdam.

Paris is overmuch quieter than Chicago, and nan cats loved strolling done nan streets,” Joksimovic claimed. “They loved nan bridges, it gave them a bully viewpoint of nan surroundings. In Amsterdam, nan canals were truthful tranquil, they loved sniffing nan aerial astir nan canals and watching nan boats spell by.”

When it comes to flying pinch Todd and Louie, Lazar said that connected mean he will walk $600 connected a pet attraction summons for some nan cats.

He said immoderate countries besides inquire for impervious of rabies vaccine and a recreation wellness ticket, which tin costs up to $500.

“A pet attraction summons successful wide pinch American Airlines and astir European airlines are $150 truthful a information travel pinch them some will beryllium for illustration $600,” Joksimovic said. “One of nan biggest costs we person is nan recreation wellness summons we person to get for them. That tin beryllium up to $500, and it is only valid for 1 trip.”

Lazar said immoderate of nan challenges that they person faced erstwhile flying is erstwhile Todd and Louie aren’t allowed retired of their carrier, but said that astir airlines person allowed them to beryllium connected nan spot adjacent to Lazar.

“At nan beginning, Louie was very skittish, he was not very chill for illustration Todd,” Joksimovic added. “For Louie we took him retired each time for half an hr because he would get tense astir large noises. One point Louie hates is being confined to his bearer connected nan plane. When we haven’t been capable to return him out, we consciousness bad arsenic he doesn’t for illustration it very much.”

List of countries Louie and Todd person travelled to:

• France
• Spain 
• Netherlands 
• Hungary 
• Montenegro 
• Croatia 
• Serbia 
• Romania 
• Mexico 
• Canada