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wraithfodder ([personal profile] wraithfodder) wrote2008-08-16 09:35 pm
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Cat kidnapped!

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.

 

[identity profile] gatedialer.livejournal.com 2008-08-17 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my, that sounds like Tybalt when he is in the carrier on the way to the vet!!!

[identity profile] alyssa22.livejournal.com 2008-08-17 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Poor kitty! Cookie had to have a look around to make sure he was alone in here..

[identity profile] dejla.livejournal.com 2008-08-17 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that sounds like my Cinderella. Forty years and I can still hear her yowl.

(Anonymous) 2008-08-17 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
that cat is not happy

[identity profile] vecturist.livejournal.com 2008-08-17 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
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.)

[identity profile] kosmikdawg.livejournal.com 2008-08-17 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
My cat used to sound like that in her carrier!

[identity profile] negolith2.livejournal.com 2008-08-17 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] tipper-green.livejournal.com 2008-08-17 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
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..."

[identity profile] libra-traveller.livejournal.com 2008-08-17 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
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.

cat in the box...

[identity profile] ishshahpat.livejournal.com 2008-08-17 08:44 am (UTC)(link)
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

[identity profile] iamrighthere.livejournal.com 2008-08-17 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] alipeeps.livejournal.com 2008-08-17 10:05 am (UTC)(link)
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. :/
Edited 2008-08-17 10:08 (UTC)

[identity profile] audreyscastle.livejournal.com 2008-08-17 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] mcsheplovers.livejournal.com 2008-08-17 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
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.....
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[personal profile] aelfgyfu_mead 2008-08-17 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
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!)
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[identity profile] squonk79.livejournal.com 2008-08-18 08:48 am (UTC)(link)
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...

[identity profile] tavabean.livejournal.com 2008-08-19 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
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!