How To Stuff A Cat Into A Carrier

[ISupportHer]

First, get a big tube of Vaseline....................

 

[barefoot]

Anyone else find that, having had the huge battle to get them in the carrier at home, when it's time to leave the vets, the vet opens the carrier door and the cat just trots straight in?
They're such buggers! :-)

 

[hodge]

That is so true, Barefoot!! Lol!

 

[ShodokanJenn]

LOL @barefoot . That is EXACTLY what happened today. It took my husband and I both about 20 minutes of constant effort to get him in there. Vet visit was good. First, she weighed him. 20.6 pounds. Then she checked his eyes, all his lymph nodes, listened to his lungs and his intestines, checked his bum. Finally attention was turned on the "tumor" on his nose. She decided to do a fine-needle aspiration biopsy. Shen she stuck the needle in, clear pinkish tinted fluid came gushing out. She pushed on the lump until all the fluid was out and was all flattened out. SHe did a stain on some of the fluid to look at under a microscope. There were lots of white blood cells in the fluid, but no visible bacteria. She feels it really WAS a bee sting when this all started, as I had seen him playing with a wasp, and then he came up to me with a hot red lump on his nose. It shrank over about a week, but then started growing again. So yeah, some sort of weird healing glich. He's on antibiotics for a week, but is otherwise perfectly healthy. And there will be NO SURGERY!!! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO relieved my furbaby is going to be just fine. Hurray. I love the stories I've heard on this thread.

Oh, and for the record, he did not destroy anything at the vet's office. Derek was surprised at how inexpensive the visit was, given how fancy the office and waiting room is. They also board dogs and cats there, and they have a doggie daycare as well. So those things help them keep vet service fees down.

 

[Miss_Guided]

When my cat was 23 lbs, I ended up buying a bigger carrier. He's now 14 lbs and I still carry him in that huge thing because the smaller one is for 12lbs or less & he still won't fit. The size of your carrier may be some of the issue.

My cats never really enjoyed getting in those things, and they would pretend they were going to fight me. Really though, I just picked them up and put them in without much issue. I would have the carrier out of their sight at a reasonable safe height with the door open, and I'd pick them up the way I normally did if I were just planning on holding/petting them (pretty much distracting as I walked to carrier). In they went and door shut behind them. Of course you have to have a cat that allows you to hold them that way, and I know not all of them are like that.

EDIT....just realized there were 2 more pages of responses. OOPS! Maybe useful info for the future. LOL