How To Stuff A Cat Into A Carrier

[ShodokanJenn]

Yep, like a wild animal, put a towel over their face so they can't see what's happening.

There seems to be a recurrent theme here. Towels. Must use towels. I'll let you all know if it works next week.

 

[ShodokanJenn]

I left the cat carrier in the room with the cats for them to explore and smell for a week before trying...

The carrier will stay out on the floor in the living room with the door open for the next week. I'll also be putting canned food in there every day. The other cats are all comfortable with the carrier. Hopefully Tabibito gets more comfortable over the next week. I don't want to be torturing him, but he's got to go to the vet and get checked out. The receptionist laughed when I described what it was like to try to get him there today. She said it's more common than I might suspect, and happily rescheduled for me.

 

[hodge]

I never had a cat when I lived alone. It's always been a two-person job here. One of us will hold up the cat carrier so the door is on top and the other will put the cat in there. Oh, and with our current guys, we wear thick winter gloves when doing this. But more power to you guys who have found ways to get cats to be comfortable with getting in the carrier! Eh, just remembered we have to take one of our guys for a checkup in the next couple weeks. And his sister soon after. Yuck.

 

[Friday]

A dog carrier... Or a cardboard box.

 

[ShodokanJenn]

I never had a cat when I lived alone. It's always been a two-person job here. One of us will hold up the...

We've had this cat for 7 years now. We bottle raised him from 9 days old. As a kitten, he was in the carrier a LOT, as I had to take him everywhere I went in order to feed him and care for hm. He's so affectionate and bold when it's just my husband and I involved, but he is TERRIFIED of strangers. I'm guessing he remembers that the last time he went into the carrier, he had to go for a car ride which he hated, and then a stranger did stuff to him. I don't know if he remembers all that exactly, or if it's just a vague sense of impending yuckiness. I am hoping that having the carrier out and stocked with canned food will change his attitude a bit.

 

[ShodokanJenn]

A dog carrier... Or a cardboard box.

Don't have a dog carrier. Cardboard box though... if we aren't able to get him into the carrier next week, we may just do the cardboard box thing. I didn't even think of that one!

 

[aut555]

Omg cat issues, one cat was in heating vent, got him out, another cat up a tree, got him down, but the cat that crawled into underbelly of car seat needed a fireman.

 

[hodge]

Omg, Aut!!

 

[hodge]

Yep, canned food and maybe catnip would help, too.

 

[ShodokanJenn]

Omg cat issues, one cat was in heating vent, got him out, another cat up a tree, got him down, but the c...

Cat problems indeed. We've never had our cats get in the heating vent, and they are inside only so no cars or trees, but we DO have cats in the cupboards and climbing the shelves and eating plants and so on.

Here's a toast to healthy kitties!

 

[ShodokanJenn]

Yep, canned food and maybe catnip would help, too.

Oddly enough, the cat in question doesn't really like catnip. He'll sniff it a bit, but he never really goes after it. Not like the other four - they all go crazy over it. But he adores canned food, so hopefully that does the trick.

 

[claroscuro]

My one cat absolutely hated the carrier when she needed to go in (the rascal slept in it when it wasn't in official use!), and attempts usually made me jealous of her acrobatic abilities. She was also a master at opening the sliding locks.

I found that placing the carrier so that the opening faced upward and then lowering her in made it so much easier.