Cat kidnapped!

[wraithfodder]

This is the cat. This is the cat not wanting to go the vet. This is what the cat does from the moment he sees the cat carrier until he's pulled out of the carrier at the vet. And this isn't even full volume.... he just went for his annual checkup/shots and is fine. I should videotape trying to get him INTO the carrier, but it takes two hands just to stuff him in... Oh, and that's the dog sitting in front of him.

 

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[gatedialer.livejournal.com]

Oh my, that sounds like Tybalt when he is in the carrier on the way to the vet!!!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Is your cat Siamese too?

[gatedialer.livejournal.com]

No, he is a snowshoe. Here is a pic.

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/gatedialer/2414699165/)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Ah, but they're from the siamese line, right? Purty!

[gatedialer.livejournal.com]

Thanks!! he will love that you called him that! Yeah they are a cross between an bi-colored American shorthair and Siamese.

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

Poor kitty! Cookie had to have a look around to make sure he was alone in here..

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

ooh, never thought what another cat would do if he heard this video...

[alyssa22.livejournal.com]

Hehehe. He just looked a bit freaked, then realised there was nothing else of the feline variety in the room and tuned out, as he does.

[dejla.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that sounds like my Cinderella. Forty years and I can still hear her yowl.

[(Anonymous)]

that cat is not happy

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Cat is never happy when he goes to vet.

[vecturist.livejournal.com]

Yep, my cat Max is the same way when in the cat carrier - I've actually been accosted by people who demand to know if my cat is alright. My trick is to get the carrier out a couple days early so he's not completely freaked and is slightly off-guard. (Of course this is the cat I've nicknamed Sheppard because of his ability to charm and then pull an escape attempt at the vet.)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Nah, my cat sees the carrier, that's it, he's gone, hiding, ain't coming back out into the light of day until it's gone back in the attic.

[stargate-bum.livejournal.com]

Hey Elyse..

this is cute!

http://www.freakingnews.com/Stargate-Atlantis-Pictures-16594.asp

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Eeegads!

[stargate-bum.livejournal.com]

oh come on...it's a real hoot! You can't not look at it and smile, whilst still entertaining your horrified gasp.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

yup, that about sums it up. it looks like the MAD magazine folk had their way with Shep et al. Poor guys ;)

[stargate-bum.livejournal.com]

interestingly enough, given the fact that some late bloomers start out life as early misfits, it's not too inconceivable that Weir and Sheppard might have had their pre-adolescent phase as well, what you see...i have a harder time believing it in Ford though..that one strikes me as a pretty all-american all rounder jock kinda guy

[iamrighthere.livejournal.com]

Oh, Jesus! That is freaking odd! And funny!

[kosmikdawg.livejournal.com]

My cat used to sound like that in her carrier!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

:)

[negolith2.livejournal.com]

Having had a 20 lb Manx behemoth at one time, I found the top opening pet carriers mighty handy.

And funny - when it came time to leave the vet, all I had to do was open the door and he'd dive right on in. Poop.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Yup, cat definitely slinks INTO the carrier at the vets!

[tipper-green.livejournal.com]

Your dog! ROFL! I love that he was just sitting there, guarding the cage like a deputy in the sherrif's office of a jail.

"Nothing to see here folks. Move along..."

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he whined a bit, just didn't catch that on tape ;)

[libra-traveller.livejournal.com]

Hehee. When we took our cats when they were kittens, they were crying their heads off in the carriers while in the car on the way to the vet.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I'm sure my cat did too... just not as noisy ;)

cat in the box...

[ishshahpat.livejournal.com]

Yeah my kittens do that too... wonder why!!!

When I played the video my Kittens jump up on my bed and started pawing at my lap top... LOL!!! Their ears were perked up and they were nosing the screen... it was sooooo cute!!!

I have to take them to the boarding house next week while I'm go to GATECON and so I took the carrier out today... and they are luking around it, very cautiously... I think they know what's coming!!! I adopted them at three months old from the shelter at Christmas they still kittens, just 11 months old now! Brother and sister, named Shanks and Sha're! Very cute and very black!!! I'd post a picture... but I don't know how! Thanks for keeping me entertained with your blog... love it!

Cheers
Patricia

[iamrighthere.livejournal.com]

Oh, such an unhappy cat, but so well behaved otherwise. My Buddy used to yeooowwwwllll, pee himself, poop in the carrier, drool big foamy blobs AND throw up.

Buddy wasn't much of a cat. Not really. Your beauty, now, that's a cat!

PS: My icon isn't Buddy. Kipper asked me to make sure you knew.

[alipeeps.livejournal.com]

Multiply that by two and you have me taking my cats to the vets. They start howling the moment I shut them in the hall (I've learned from experience that the only practical way to get them into the cat boxes is to shut them in somewhere where there's no furniture for them to hide behind - the problem is they now know what that means!), then I have the issue of how to get the cat boxes from the kitchen into the hall (cos I gotta open the door wide enough to get the boxes through and at the same time prevent a cat from squeezing through the gap and making a mad dash for the (locked - cos I ain't that stupid) catflap and braining itself!) and yeah, two hands to get one cat into a cat box, twice over, and then they sit and howl piteously the entire time they're in the box... as they're carried to the car, the entire (thank goodness, only 5 minute) drive to the vets, carrying them from the car to the vets and the entire time in the waiting room (I have to apologise to the other people waiting and tell them, "I'm sorry but they will do this the entire time we are here"!). The only time they stop is when they are carried into the exam room at which point they go very quiet and still in the hope that nobody will notice they are there! :lol:

And then the howling starts up again as soon as we carry them out of the exam room and lasts through payment at the reception, the walk back to the car, the drive home, and carrying the boxes back into the house. At which point the boxes are opened and they go straight behind the sofa and loftily ignore us for a few hours in punishment for our cruel treatment of them.

It's a joy. :/

And really, they are their own worst enemies. They end up spending more time in the noxes - howling - because I have to start trying to get them in the boxes way earlier than necessary in case I have problems getting them in. So they get to sit and howl in a box on the living room floor for 20 minutes before we even set off. :/

[iamrighthere.livejournal.com]

Which is why we ought to have gone to vet school, specialized in routine cat care, and started a business doing house calls. Because your cats and my cat and a zillion other cats really need that sort of thing. Geez, what cat owners go through, eh?

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I must admit at least my cat shuts up once he's in the actual exam room, but that's the ONLY time... most people in the vet's office go "ooh, Siamese!" when he shrieks away. :)

[audreyscastle.livejournal.com]

Gotta love those Siamese...my cat's only half Siamese and she still yells her head off every time she's in a situation she doesn't like :) And has figured out how to escape her carrier.

[audreyscastle.livejournal.com]

okay, correction, just saw the lovely pic of the showshoe... :) He's still beautiful! ...er, okay, so your cat IS the Meezer. Geez. That's what I get for reading comments from the bottom up immediately after I wake up. ;-D Just ignore me. <3 Been getting my stupid on, apparently.

[mcsheplovers.livejournal.com]

My two kitties, Emma and Seamus, perked up when they heard your kitty. They recognize the sound of a fellow feline in "A trip to the Vet" distress......
Seamus has to go to the vet tomorrow to be neutered. Oy. Not looking forward to the pet carrier scenario.....not a good time for either of us.
Sigh....being a good kitty mama means having to do things that we're not always appreciated for.....

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Ha! Yeah, that's "don't take me to the vet" yell. Ah, poor Seamus, but the kitties get over and they're much better off.

[aelfgyfu_mead]

How awful! Been there, done that.

In fact, we had a cat crying the whole five hours we drove across the Florida peninsula last time we had to evacuate. (It's not normally five hours, but a lot of people were on the road.) We're praying we don't have to evacuate for Fay: we have two cats now.

Glad the cat is healthy and won't have to go back for another year! (I hope!)

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

You win, hands down. Five HOURS??! Yeah, hope you can stay put and Fay avoids you.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

They don't realize it hurts you more than them. They get a jab, you get the bill!

[squonk79.livejournal.com]

LOL! That's one disgruntled cat - it almost saounds like he's saying "Noooo!"

When boyfy's cat needed to go to the vet, he bogged off to work and left me to get her in the carrier and take her - and this cat (along with most others) hates me. I had to phone boyfy after half an hour of trying to say "well, now she's on top of the wardrobe and i can't reach!". He had to leave work to help out! lol Then she just hissed the whole time...

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

The key thing to do is lock the cat in a small room, or at least one with no exits. Then get cat carrier, then bring cat to carrier or vice versa, depending on how violent kitty gets. Sometimes wearing work gloves helps too...

[tavabean.livejournal.com]

Many years ago my older sister raised and showed purebred Siamese cats. When I was a teenager I rode 40 miles to a cat show with her, her husband and 7 Siamese cats, who protested mightily the entire way! So this reminds me of my youth!

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Wow, that must have been ... noisy!