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I'm Mark.

I breed Ragdolls in Vancouver, Washington, and I fly cats in the aircraft cabin out of Portland International. Those two facts are related, and they are most of what you need to know about how I work.

The first cats I flew were my own. A Ragdoll litter goes out to families who are rarely in driving distance, and the choice at that point is bad: put the kitten in a cargo hold, hand it to a courier you have never met, or ask the buyer to fly out and collect. I started flying them myself because none of those three sat right. Breeders I know asked whether I would do the same for theirs, and it turned into this.

Why only cats

Because doing one thing properly is easier than doing two things adequately. Every carrier I own is sized for a cat. Every airline rule I have had to learn is a cat rule, which means I know that Alaska allows a soft carrier of 17 by 11 by 9.5 inches and bans hard sides in the cabin, and I know it without looking it up. A transporter carrying dogs and cats and the occasional rabbit cannot hold that much detail on all of them.

It also means your cat never travels next to a dog. Not in the cabin with me, not in the car on the way, not in an adjacent carrier. That is a promise I can make because I never take the job that would break it.

Registered with the USDA

I am registered with USDA/APHIS as a Class T transporter, the category for people who move animals for hire. It means my records and the way I handle animals are open to unannounced inspection.

What I will tell you before you book

• If your cat is too big to fit the carrier the operating airline allows. A grown Ragdoll male often is, and I would rather say so than get to the gate and find out.
• If flying out and collecting the cat yourself works out roughly the same price. On some routes it does.
• If the timing does not work. A health certificate window is usually ten days, and that is tighter than most people plan for.
• If I think the kitten is too young. My floor is twelve weeks, which is stricter than every airline flying out of PDX.

Where to find me

Vancouver, Washington, flying out of Portland International. Call or text (360) 984-8059, or email info@pdxflightnanny.com. I answer both myself, usually the same day.