KITTEN!
My kitten is cute little thing. Sweet, fluffy, playful, etc.

But if you ever pick her up to put her in her cat box to go to the vet, she becomes somewhat different. Evil, some might say.

She once went into such a fit that she left a rather deep 4 inch scratch all the way down my wrist. Which scarred.

Now every time I go out wearing shortsleeves I always catch the new person I'm talking to making a quick glance towards my wrist, followed swiftly by a "ohmygod he's tried to kill himself" face.

Once - in that precise situation - I came out straight away with: "tell you what, buy me another drink or I'll cut the other one". I've never seen such a look of horror before or since.
(meat katie rocked the other nite and also on, Sun 27 Apr 2008, 22:05, 3 replies)

Some tips
Hide the box in a small room so when you carry the cat in there it cant escape.

Put the cat in backwards instead of trying to force it in forwards, they have less to grip onto and it's generally easier, just watch your wrists

Keep the box when it's not being used in a room your cat goes into so it doesn't spy it and run away. Encourage your cat to sit in it and play when it's not due for a visit to the vets.

Makes life a lot easier for us nurses when we're not dealing with a hissing, spitting furry ball of rage who's having a temper tantrum because it's not accustomed to being restrained in a box.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Sun 27 Apr 2008, 22:39, closed)

^ ^
Over the years I've tried those ideas. The only one of them that really worked for me was putting the cat in backwards....but with the box/carrier standing up so I was doing something more akin to dropping the cat down in the box.

The 2 things that ended up working for me were this:
1. just taking the cat without a carrier as the carrier tended to scare the crap out of them more than the Vet did.
3. an ex- decided to leash-train my two boys. He did some research and ended up buying dog harnesses because all the cat leashes available at the time (and in our location) tended to choke the cats whereas a dog harness grabs around the shoulders and chest. Once the cats were trained to walk on the leash, I never had a problem getting them to the Vet or anywhere else I wanted to take them.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Sun 27 Apr 2008, 23:23, closed)

Try this
put there food in the box they will get used to it again
(Pill Popper Thank you Sasha Shulgin, Mon 28 Apr 2008, 15:03, closed)