i have to get my cat into a pet carrier, SOLO!
 

this has been weighing on my mind all day.

vet appointment tonight. my wife is working, and i am flying solo. my sweet cat is an effing raptor when she sees the pet carrier.

i cant count how many times i've had to cancel vet appointments because i cant capture the beast. chit..i break out into a sweat just thinking about it :)

if i can pull this off, i am begging the vet to put the flea meds on her. that is the second most difficult thing to do. my wrists end up looking look like i hate myself, or i love pain.

going home early today..eye of the tiger..eye of the tiger..me!! not the cat.

no fear.

Good luck

Put cat in boot. Put boot in carrier. Slide boot out and shut the door quickly.

Welding gloves and a tranquilizer gun.

trap em in the bathroom. smaller spaces means fewer places to run

^^

Yep. Put a sheet on the floor in a small space, get her to walk onto the sheet, wrap her up in it. Carefully transfer her from the sheet into a pillow case, then to the carrier. When I had to help a friend we tried this and it worked. WEAR GLOVES AND LONG SLEEVES.

Get a thick towel.
Open a can of tuna and allow the scent to move about the room. This shouldn't take long.
When cat arrives purring and twining, feed fresh tuna (or favorite treat) while preparing towel.
While cat is still purring lay it down on a towel and tightly wrap cat in towel with all weaponry safely covered and disarmed.
Walk out to garage and place whole cat wrap into crate with more fresh tuna inside.
Head to vet appt.

Learning how to properly wrap a cat is an important personal survival technique.

When in doubt, use overwhelming force. Cat can't talk - wife will never know ... SmileWavy

Piece of cake.

Open carrier and set it on the floor with the door facing upwards.

Grab cat and hold it on the ground.

Wrap your hand around the shoulders/scruff off the neck, and grab as deeply as you can, while pushing (gently but firmly) downward to maximize the amount of skin area.

Grab as hard, getting as much skin as you can. If you do it right, this pulls their front legs away from each other; this is the kitty version of the full-nelson.

Swiftly lift the cat up and thread it into the carrier, hind legs first. Do let let go, do not collect $200 until the cat is in the carrier.

I've used this technique several times over the years with both tame and feral cats. Ferals are actually easier because they don't know what a crate is - yet.

Why torture yourself and the cat? Call a vet that makes house calls. My sister-in-law is a mobile vet, and as an added bonus her rate is lower than a traditional vet due to low overhead. Everyone wins.

^ This ^ - it's the only language cats understand and respect.

I've heard that wrappiing a cat's feet with scotch tape will calm him down making him easy to handle and get into a carrier.
YMMV ;)



















Note: I like cats and would never be mean to one, but I like jokes.

Nyquil?

• Get a large sheet of contact paper (clear would work best)
• remove the backing
• lay it on the floor, sticky side up
• place a glop of tuna in the middle
• profit!

Make sure the carrier is no where in sight. Put cat in a pillow case. Put the pillow case in the carrier. Close the carrier. The cat will get out of the pillow case on its own.....

Do you have a gopro vash? We need video of this endeavor.

One of my favorite quotes from the "All Creatures Great and Small" series:

"Old Herriot may be limited in many respects, but by God he can wrap a cat.":)

That is probably where I learned it. :cool:

We had 3 cats over the years and all were containable when towel-wrapped so we could administer ear drops or take em to the vet.

Our vet gives us a few kitty downers to make it somewhat (emphasis on somewhat) easier to get the gray terror into the carrier. Getting the pill in is another adventure, however it does cut down on the bloodshed and mayhem when he's mellow. You might want to consider this route for the future.

^^ Pill Pockets. You can get them on Amazon.

LMAO, you guys are hilarious. Our 2 girls are absolute dolls and don't give any problems when transporting at all. One of them does hide (very effectively) as soon as she sees a suitcase, but we've learned to close all the room doors before starting to pack.

BTDT! (Three cats). Not easy. Two just don't like it and will run / hide / complain. The third will try to kill me. And hold a grudge. For at least a month. I recommend a leather jacket (sometimes not enough), heavy gloves (welding gloves are a good idea), motorcycle helmet with full face shield and the heaviest pants you own (for me it's motorcycle lowers with integral armor). Leave no exposed skin. Think of what you'd wear if you were going to body dive a fire ant hill "jackass" style. Something like that.

Despite lots of protection my last "interment" of my third cat left me with a 6" long gash on my forearm that took about two weeks to fully heal.

Don't be violent (too easy to hurt the cats) but you do need to be FAST and ASSERTIVE. If you can shield the eyes while you QUICKLY guide the cat into the carrier, bonus. I recommend standing the carrier on end with the door up (lower the cat in bottom end first - the hind legs are the more damaging ones scratch-wise and the risk of them being able to jump clear is outweighed by that IMHO. If you lower (not "drop") the cat in you should be able to close the door and tilt the carrier horizontal easily without incident. Don't slam the door (paws can easily get pinched). Hold firmly but not hard, try to put a little bit of pressure on the scruff of the neck (cats tend to chill a bit reflexively since mama cats pick up the young that way) but don't count on it to fully counteract the natural instinct to tear your eyeballs from their sockets and then disembowel you and eat your spleen.

Animal cage trap. Put the cat's favorite food in there near the back.

He eats the pocket, and spits the pill out. BTDT

the welding gloves are a necessity.
neck scruff mgmt. is the key, with a grumpy cat.
perhaps feeding the cat a couple of those calming treats that you may purchase in a pet store.
our cat hauler is soft and has a long zipper on the top. far easier to drop them in there, as opposed to trying to force them in the door.
our housecat is so docile that it is a non-event.

You're lucky. When my cat was alive, I had a really difficult time getting her into the carrier. But once I got her to the vet, they had to give me heavy leather gloves to get her out. A notation on the vet's records in her file was, "This cat bites!"

Box, cats dig boxes. Give em a box, wait until it climbs in. Trapped!

Just got back from a 3 pm apt,I do it solo all the time.
Cat carrier on floor, I put it up against the wall, grab cat, face cat towards you approach carrier with it behind the cat, put the cat ass end first,works great.
Good luck

I have one that will sleep in the carrier, she doesn't really care about much of anything.
I have one that depending on your mood she is either easy in or a blood letting adventure and the last one
He is a sweetheart, until he has to get in the carrier, he is solid black, he is 23lbs of muscle and short of knocking him out getting him into the carrier by yourself is not going to happen. It isn't just his teeth and claws, it is also his bruit force, you can not hold him, you can not manage both ends at once because of his size and he will make you regret trying this adventure.
He is sleeping on my lap as I type this

Shock and awe! I got her!
I let her see the cage. I was screwed. I just watched tv until she felt normal. She jumped on my chest and I grabbed her and put her in the cage hidden in the space next to the couch. One smooth motion. Circle of trust is shattered.

Downside? I'm now at the vet one hour early, and I forgot the flea meds. I'm the only male here and I have the only cat. I'm the crazy cat guy now. Fabulous. :)

Did you remember your shirt?


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Disguise cat carrier as cardboard box.

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It has been 12 hours since Vash posted. For some reason, I'm imagining this.

http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/u...DR24-00537.jpg

Probably too late now, but my cat is a rescued feral with kidney failure - she gets pills every day, sees the vet every month and hates being constrained for either. She has ripped many a shirt and even managed to break a dining room chair before I got this advice:

Take the upper half off the carrier, and put all the latches at the ready to return it fast. Grab kitty (hard) by the scruff of her neck and pick her up whilst supporting her body. Place her into the carrier and while still keeping your grip on her neck place the upper half back, only releasing her neck once your arm really is preventing you from fully closing the carrier. In double quick time fully close and latch the carrier.

As I said before:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmzG7_8Yemc

Get a cardboard box the carrier fits into, stand on end. ......lol

Trade her in for a dog! Ya want Max?

My cat has a leash to go outside the minute he sees it he runs over to put it on. So instead of the cat carrier we have been taking him to the vet with the leash on. No stress on either of us.

this is super funny!! great shirt.

in the end, i am glad i took the cat in. looks like she got in a scrap with a rodent. there were two punctured toes. both infected, and getting stinky.

cleaned, pain meds, and antibiotics.

it is crazy how vet techs can man handle a cat. any cat. my cat had no moves to evade any death hold that lady had.