Why are cats such assholes?!

[dementedpixie]

I have 2 cats and a week or so ago I was supposed to take them for their annual boosters. Unfortunately, I moved the cat carriers the night before, so one of the cats immediately went awol, so only had 1 cat available in the morning so he got his OK. Luckily I wasn't charged for the no show cat.

I made a morning appointment for the 2nd cat to get his and then decided to change it for an afternoon one to give more chance of him being available. It was sods law that he was actually in the house for the original 2nd morning appointment that I changed!

His appointment is today at 3.30pm and at the moment he is not in the house. The wee fucker better come home before his appointment or I'm going to ring his bloody neck!!

Pray for the wanderer to return so I dont have to phone the vet again 🤣

Panic over! The wanderer has returned and the catflap is now locked. He is so unsuspecting just now

But look how cute he is 🥰

Much sympathy to you. Our tortie is a big girl with a lot of brain and she knows she doesn't hide well, so this is one battle the perfidious two-legs will win. She doesn't like the process of getting to the vet - the box, the taxi, etc, but she likes the vet, so her visits are quite painless, apart from the telling-off about how fat she is.

Our ginger boy is a perfect weight, according to the vet. Great...except he's very good at hiding when the carrier comes out. He gobbles like a vacuum cleaner but is leggy and lean and fits in little hidey-holes. We have to shut the door to the second bedroom the night before the appointment and factor in the time it takes to chase him around the lounge and kitchen. We are both in our sixties and that WF is fast. Once caught (because he always is. He's not the brightest.) he tries to avoid being put in the carrier and refuses to come out of it once we are with the vet. And he wails and cries and protests like a small boy done out of his sweeties by a cruel parent.

Your WF is beautiful. Here's mine.

Mine also hates going in the carrier but at the vets doesn't want to leave it and tried to become one with it. I remember taking him when he was limping but he refused to stand up or walk when he got to the vets so the vet had to take our word for it that he had a problem with his leg.

They aren't daft, are they? Loki seems to sense when the Humans Are Plotting and off he goes to squirrel himself away somewhere.

My carrier has a clip off roof to it, so when we get in to see the vet themselves it's carrier onthe table, door removed completely, then top removed so they are in something that looks like a very deep sided litter tray with a doorway at one end. Vet can access entire cat without getting a hernia from hauling them out of the crate, only time they need to be out of their safe place is for weighing.

We have to shut the door to the second bedroom the night before the appointment and factor in the time it takes to chase him around the lounge and kitchen.

You may think about doing the opposite - shutting him in the spare bedroom with water, litter, food (if not being starved for any reason). We needed to do that with Tobias when he was having a scan of his bowels & on starvation, shut him in "their" bedroom with water & litter tray that are always in there anyway, only thing edible in the room was laced with gabapentin. Girlcat was happy enough for an evening's peace without the Tabby Tigger wanting to play half the night, and he was a bit disgruntled but easy enough to poison give sedative meds to in the morning then catch without letting him near hidey holes.

Oh god this has given me flashbacks to two years ago 😱

I'd just come out of hospital after a really serious operation, my friend kindly offered to stay at mine and look after the cats. We got home and the first thing I saw was Kloppy limping with a swollen front leg, I was like WTF has happened to him? Realised we needed to get him to a vet but I had surgical drains attached and there was no way my friend could get him into the carrier by herself. She tried but Kloppy bit her hand really hard, almost to the bone 😳 It was so bad, her hand swelled up very quickly. Neither of us could drive so I had to recruit an elderly neighbour to bundle Kloppy up in a towel and shove him into the carrier and take us to the vets.

We got to the vets and it was like a joke - how many women does it take to get a cat to the vet? 😹 I was standing there with surgical drains, my friend was freaking out with a throbbing bleeding hand (in a foreign country and panicking about rabies 😅) and my elderly neighbour with a bad back.

It was quite funny looking back; my friend quickly got antibiotics and I later found a much easier way to get the little bastard into a carrier courtesy of YouTube 😹

I have to put one of mine in bum first or he just starfishes to prevent himself going in.

Storm was sleeping when it was time to go so I had to bundle him quickly into the carrier before he realised what was happening.

Vet was running 25 minutes late so we had to wait when we got there. There were a lot of dogs about in the waiting area. Appointment was quick as his weight, teeth, heart were all OK and he got his injection.

Never made a sound from going into the carrier in the house to getting back out when he got home. Glad that's it done for another year

Our boy legged it behind the washing machine one time "Ha Ha shift that" he chortled.
We had his sister caught so she went . He had to go on his own as it wasn't fair to catch her and transport her a 2nd time . He was ok (DD was with him, his favourite human)
Little sods have a 6th sense don't they .

I leave my carrier out all the time & put lick-e-lixes in it every so often.

It usually works.

Ooh what's this lid opening carrier? Mine goes mad!

Top loader all the way! Helpfully started by the rescue we got him from who informed us “please bring something more akin to a puppy crate to pick him up in, rather than a cat carrier, he’s rather large!”

The only time we’ve attempted to get him in a “normal” car carrier, we were 3 hours late to the cattery and DH rocked up covered in blood 🙈.

He’s been boxed up 3 times in the last 24 hours as he’s currently got some wee issues (see my other thread) but it’s so easy to plop him in the top and close the lid before he realises what’s happening

Oh my God every single time and then she sings the song of her people all the way there and all the way back.

Our boy sound like a peacock (they are noisy little critters ) The girl is silent but plots ....

Here's an example from Pets at home. It has a front door that can be opened either left or right or removed completely. A top door that opens hinged, or can be removed. And you can see clips between the dark grey bottom half of the body and the lighter upper half, these let you remove the entire lighter coloured "roof". You can get them on Amazon too, and Zooplus

For loading up, make sure the front is closed firmly and the top open, then once you've caught your cat load it in through the top back end first. At the vets, you can open/remove the door at the front then unclip the top to reveal the sulking creature cowering in the corner & give the vet access without having to drag the cat out. When you get home, you just have to open the front door & watch the cat streak away to the nearest hiding place 😁