You have enough time to get her used to being in the car and traveling. Feeding her in her crate is an awesome idea because she will think that it's not only for going to the vets.

We have someone come in and take care of our animals while we are gone. The reason is we rescued a cat from the pound. It was the best cat ever. He was a main coon so he was big and that is why his owners go turned him in. He was just to big for them. He was 25 lbs. anyway we never had any problems with him when we went away until we booked him into the pet hotel at pets mart.

We didn't have a choice. While we were gone we had our hardwood floors redone so all the animals had to be out of the house. We had 2 cats we paid extra to have them housed together and I took their favorite blanket. Our dog also went and she's easy going and had no issues.

When we went to pick up the animals coal our main coon was very different. He didn't want to stay in the house anymore he wanted to be outside all the time. He also wanted to sleep in the flower pots and poop in the dirt. We took him to the vet and she said he more then likely had PTSD from the time his first family gave him up and he was caged. He was caged for over 3 months before we adopted him. When we put him in the hotel I guess it brought up bad memories. We lost coal a few months later. We are not sure if he was hit by a car or shot by someone. My husband was taking me to the hospital to check in for chemo when our son came out of his room and said he had to show us something. It was coal dead at his door. We had coal cremated. I feel we failed him

So you have time think what is best for your cat.

Good luck