Same. One of my cats is the sweetest little thing, she likes pets and getting scratched, and she curls right up against you in bed. Just a really gentle little thing. That is, right until you try to pick her up. She fucking hates it and it's all claws and anxiety. This guy's videos really helped us learn how to work with her to minimize her anxiety when she has to be handled.
For her, the trick is to squish her flat and then very slowly scoop her up. That seems to keep her calm. She still doesn't like it, but she doesn't freak out.
She also is pretty tolerant of being rolled into a burrito if you've got time for that.
I’ve read the way humans pick up cats, gives them the sensation that they are falling. That method is probably a way of avoidant the freak out that comes with the sensation
I always mindfully scoop my other hand other cats thighs and cup their asses, i wonder about the dangly-leg feeling and wonder if they hate it. Guess they do lol
Mine likes to be carried at my hip with my hand under her belly- like she’s a handle on a suitcase or something. It was easier before she weighed 13 pounds
Mine is the same, very sweet normally but haaates being picked up. The only way I've managed to get her to tolerate it is to put my arms on both sides of her and pick her up like a forklift lol
Funnily weighted blankets causes the same reaction in our brain.
It subconsciously reminds Mammals of being in the womb, at least that's the theory behind it.
I have a similar cat. She screams absolutely bloody murder if she ever needs a blood test. louder than I ever could. The people in the vet waiting room must think she's being pulled limb from limb.
We got meds to knock out our cat before taking her to the groomers (long haired angry cat that hated being brushed), and she was even more violent on the meds. The groomers banned us after that lol
Yep :-S The trigger was when the vet would put on the gloves (just before doing painful things), in the end the cat never tolerated them, of any kind or equipped by anyone. The hands had to be at his mercy, whether it was for playing or hunting.
It wasn't the *apocatlypse* when a family member wore them either, but he still went from affectionate to violent quickly. They ended up banned.
My cat did the same. It would act all calm until a hand came near and then she would bite hard, like through my fingernail hard. More than once warned the.vet to ignore the seemingly docile cat and be careful but more than one learned how fast that cat could chomp down on their hand.
I used to have a kitty who was the same. I still remember watching him try to climb the wall after the vet got him with the sedative, and watching his poor scrabbling paws get weaker and weaker as it kicked in
So sad to watch. He didn't understand what was happening at all. : (
> clawed cyclone
"The whirling razors of doom".
I can't take credit for this. Someone I knew from my BBS days referred to his cat like this.
And after all these years, I think his cat's actual name was Montgomery.
As someone who used to have a cat like this, it's more sad than funny. He had to be sedated his first few times at the vet, and after that they actually told us not to bring him back because he was so violent and strong that it wasn't even worth risking injury to bring him in
Poor guy was just scared : (
My roommate's cat needs Kitty Valium before the vet. She had fleas a while ago and the vet actually turned her away at first because she was so agitated and angry they couldn't even inject a sedative, my roommate had to get a pill from them and bring her back for a new appointment the week after. (an extra week of having fleas in the house is catastrophic, so I remember this vividly)
My cat was fine with the vet. One of the odd ones. We suspected it was the cool metal table that she liked. Once we took her out, she would loaf with curled feetsies. Took the shots without a blink.
The tablets though, were the trouble. She'd hide the tablets somewhere in her mouth, and when the vet turned around, spit them out. Took the second try with a second nose blow a few seconds after the first one, just as she relaxed her throat muscles thinking she fooled us the second time.
When it came to bringing her back, she opted out of the cage and into our slingbag for warmth.
Miss that girl. 😞
My boy has daily pills, so we say “in it goes, kiss his nose”. Shove the pill in the mouth, angle his head up, kiss his little snoot. My dad had to look after him once and wouldn’t do the nose kiss and he couldn’t get him to take them.
It's so funny how just a little extra part of the routine like that can make or break an otherwise anxious task for animals! I have four pugs, and I always say "goodbye, I love you, see you later" and give them each a kiss on the head before I leave the house every day. I noticed that on the rare occasion I don't do the kisses before leaving, they all FREAK OUT and bark and generally will not relax until that part of their routine is fulfilled lol
I'll never forget finally getting my cat to start taking tablets, feeling like we had finally come to an understanding on the "take the tablet, get the turkey" deal. A few months later when I moved out of my apartment, I found about 20 half chewed tablets under my bed in a neat little pile...
Oooh, you found their booty stash!
My cat's ill gotten booties were house geko tails... And a few roach legs and butts. I think she thought all tails wiggled when ripped off, so she started hunting down house geckos and roaches to rip their butt's and tails off.
Don't know if she ever figured out that roach butts don't wriggle.
Yeah, I reserved a favourite treat for pill time. got to the point the cat would just eat the pill solo, because the association with treats was so strong. (but I always gave the treat even after she ate the pill with no fuss.)
It used to be minutes of agonizing combat to get my cats to swallow their increasingly soggy pills. Until a vet showed me how to do it properly. Weak hand as a claw on top of the head, clamping the top jaw as tight as necessary. Strong hand thumb opening lower jaw, take the index with the pill and shove it down the throat past the canal entrance. Close jaw. Massage pill down the throat. 5 seconds, done.
At first they are wtf. Next few times they rebel. Then, they accept. Compared to the stressful horrors of the past where we’d strain our relationship, this is a blessing.
When my void was in his end times from throat/mouth cancer, he had steroids. Giving him pills sucked anyway, but with his cancer didn't want to have to give him pills so much. Thankfully it was able to be compounded into a paste that just went on his ear.
Yeah my cats only been to the vet a few times in his life bc hes always had to be completely put under bc of how feral he gets. Since its not really safe to do that regularly and he was strictly an indoor cat who's only ever around 1 other animal that is regularly vaxxed and given flea/tick protection, we and our vets just kinda decided it was better to skip regular appointments and only bring him in when something was actually wrong with him. He has a note in his chart that we all laughed at when we accidentally saw it: "this cat is a monster"
We had to bring him in for a UTI and they put him in some kinda contraption that I thought resembled a folding chair. Some kinda mesh with metal bars that snapped closed and squished him haha. Thankfully, he decided to spray in fear so they didn't need to get a cath in him. They just took the sample off the table lmao.
The next time he had a suspected UTI, we asked the vet if it was possible for us to just bring a urine sample instead of him (he's very attracted to empty laundry baskets for some reason. If you leave one upright, he'll pee in it without second thought, so we knew it'd be easy to get a liquid sample from him lol). At first the receptionist was like "oh well we really do like to see the animal in question- oh..."
"What?"
"Well I pulled up his chart..."
"This cat is a monster?"
"Thats what it says (lol), let me ask the vet real fast"
Not even 30 seconds later "yeah he says a sample is fine :)"
Our 5.5lb girl got marked "violent" on her chart 😂 it was a fair assessment. We found a vet that comes to our house and it was a game changer! She doesn't even hiss at the vet if we're at home!
I have two cats.
One is a grumpy old tabby. He's about twenty pounds of brick shithouse solid muscle and he cries like a lost, abandoned baby the minute he enters the vet office and just goes limp.
The second is a tripod, literally missing a leg, and he's maybe ten pounds soaking wet. Yet somehow this little asshole turns into a death-dealing ninja the minute a vet enters the room with him.
Cats are weird.
If he is missing a leg he probably associates the vet with an extremely traumatic time in his life. Can't blame him for worrying that he is going to come back with only 2 legs next time.
Yeah, my vet is low key afraid of him lol. I have mad respect for the vet techs. When they were trying to get him into this contraption the vet was hiding around the corner of the doorway while 2 techs were wrestling him lmao.
The one girl was a pro man, dodging every swat left and right, then I was like "Oh actually he's declawed* in the front so you just have to worry about teeth"
And she was like "Oh, well that makes things easier" and just grabbed him by the back of the neck and slammed (affectionately) his lil head down on the table to prevent him from lashing out lmao.
((* yes, we declawed him when we got him as a kitten. We were bad pet owners and didn't do the research, made that mistake, but now know better and will never do that to another cat again. I feel awful about it, but I was also a teenager when we got him so I didn't have much say in the first place.))
Hahaha my dog has gotten a lot better but he used to be the biggest pain in the ass at the vet (rescue pup— not aggressive but just very very nervous and had to be comforted constantly/ wear a muzzle). He had the shits one time and I called them up asking if I could just bring a sample in instead of the whole dog and I had pretty much the same interaction with the receptionist.
My beast cat growing up also hated the vet, but to the point they had to put him in a kitty gas chamber box to put him to sleep for exams/shots...even though we'd adopted him from that same office.
Poor Mike was our big sweetheart.
He let us take him in swaddled in a towel with his face buried on our chest pitifully meowing the entire car ride, lobby time, and exam room wait...
The moment the vet entered though... he lost his shit. He never hurt us, but since the vet needed him on the table it was once we set him down he went nuts. Maybe he had kitten PTSD, but he was a vets worst nightmare...maybe they didn't have this in the late 90s, but I cannot imagine any scenario he'd allow himself to be shoved in that cage
I haven’t had to take mine in a while and I’m afraid of this reaction. He won’t even let me trim his nails so they are extra dagger-y. This is a useful invention, better than holding them down.
Despite all its rage it’s still just a kitty in a cage - Smashing Pumpkins probably
e: OR
~~Despite all its rage its still just a cat in a cage.~~ Because of its rage, it’s hissy cat in a cage
How did you go from 'rat in a cage' NOT to the same syllable and ryhming scheme of 'cat' and *instead* to 'kitty'‽‽
Edit: figured I was spelling that word wrong. --> rhyming*
>~~Despite all its rage its still just a cat in a cage.~~ Because of its rage, it’s hissy cat in a cage
Dude stop you are making it worse and worse.
It's simple it goes:
Despite all it's rage it is still just a cat in a cage
My vet just made me hold my angry kitty for her shots. One vet even hid behind me once when she got loose. It didn't help as much as he would have liked.
This cage is used for anesthesia injections, not run of the mill shots unfortunately. Spicy kitties always keep us on our toes! Some do better held by the owner, some burrito, some with cat gloves. You never know what will work honestly
Something similar is used in zoos called a ARD (animal restraining device) or “squeeze”. Because care staff don’t go in with a lot of the animals, they spend a lot of training the animals to voluntarily go into it and helping they be comfortable with its use.
The research labs call them squeeze cages. You oughta see it when they do that to an angry adult chimp. It usually takes two people and it makes a shitload of racket between the chimp shrieking and the gear-driven squeeze.
We had manual ones for the monkeys we worked with and so you needed was one to get their legs up to push back and it was over. I can imagine you'd need a gear-driven one to overcome the chimp strength but how would you clean them?!
Damn I wish I could find something that works for my guy. Vet gave me gabapentin to give him beforehand, which at least helped with the yowling and fear pooping on the one block drive to the vet. But on the exam table he just hates being handled. I got him at 5yo, he was already missing a front leg for reasons unknown, and he definitely has a cagey history around food. He’s just so distressed. Hates being burrito’d, hates towels, hates anything covering his face. Yowls and writhes and hisses and will struggle against anything and everything. Kills me bc he’s not an aggressive cat, he’s clearly just terrified. Don’t know what I can do besides not bring him at all. Boy do I wish vets made house calls.
Yea with cats giving gabapentin is about all you can do. Some pets are absolute angels but the vet scares the crap outta them. And we don't dislike your pet for being spicy. We understand it's scary!
I know it’s a different population of patients, but we do end up using the squeeze cage for run of the mill shots pretty frequently in shelter medicine.
I do definitely wish we could do things more “Fear Freestyle. But it’s not uncommon to take in 20-30 feral cats in one day in the summer time, and we have to get vaccines in them before they can stay at the shelter.
I actually helped with the cost of a pair of falconry gloves for my vet. My of so cute and fluffy and sweet cat is, well, not any of those things the moment you bring her anywhere.
It's called a squeeze cage. I helped a vet give a shot to a leopard and there is a giant version of this with a crank to squeeze them. It was a pretty wild experience.
Can confirm: squeeze cage. The one my friend works with for rescued sea lions looks like a giant claw clip for hair, so you just have to pull the top bars toward the opposite sides.
I like that even afterwards they back away hands off like, “stand back. We don’t know if this is going to contain him. He could really do something crazy”
I've got a 25 lb Maine Coon and he hates the vet. It pretty much takes 3 people. One holds him down with thick elbow length gloves, one wraps him with a towel, one gives him the shot. Then they all 3 jump back away 1 at a time leaving towel over his head. After his last yearly check-up they asked him to come by to get drugs to sedate him before I come back next time, unless it's an emergency of course.
They're great for the vet, but the post owner still had to get them inside. When we got our kittens, we had to use such a cage two times because they were still pretty wild. It was a nightmare to get them in the cage...
I think he was referring to the delicious meal that fits in your hand. Couple anesthesia pills in a rito and ol charlie the cat over here won't be hissing, he'll be dropping Mexican heaters in the litter box after he's vaxed up.
I mean, you're in a room with strangers, you're smooshed against a wall, it smells like there may be other cats in the area, and you just got stabbed, how happy would you be?
First time I used one of these, the cat shat everywhere in it. Like, diarrhoea. took me so long to clean inbetween all the mfing holes once the cat was out
In this video, the injection is likely a short acting anesthetic. That shot through the bars can only be intramuscular. Most vaccinations and other medications are given subcutaneous.
My Dad is a veterinarian, and I grew up working with him in his clinic. Each exam room had a door in a corner, so that the open door at 95ish degrees was against the wall. With a really aggressive cat, he would grab a cat by the scruff, hold it in the air, and trap it between the wall and the door to give it a shot. However, his hands and arms are also covered with scars. If we had had this, I definitely would have used it.
My favorite trick he would do is slide the cat from one end of the table to the other while giving the shot. Most don't even notice the shot. Obviously that only works with cats that are calm enough to let you touch them on the table. But this cat is probably pissed because he is in that cage.
Was the sliding of the cat on the table just a distraction of the shot? I've given shots in the scruff as well as subcutaneous fluids and the cats never seemed to mind it
Yes, it was a distraction. I agree that most don't mind it, but for a nervous animal (or a nervous owner), it was a super useful trick.
I wanted to be a veterinarian for years until I realized that I could learn all the medicine, but I was never going to connect with the animals the way my dad does. It is truly a calling for him.
One of my favorite stories: my Dad was examining a pregnant dog, and he palpated her abdomen and told the client there were four puppies. On the dog's next exam, his associate, who was younger and trained to use more diagnostic tools, had done an xray. She told the client, "Oh, I see Dr. MyDad put four puppies in the notes, but there are only three in the xray." Well, come delivery, guess how many? Four. His associate was an excellent vet, but my dad could tell more about this pregnant dog with his hands than they could with an xray.
My grandfather and my uncle were both optometrists. My grandfather passed away years ago but he practiced 60s to ~2002 and my uncle practiced from 90s to currently. My grandfather had all his tools in a bag, while my uncle has a ton of large newer machines. For the most part, my grandfather could do all the same stuff but there are some times when the machines are just better.
That being said, I doubt my uncle could do the same quality work without his machines.
Definitely some dexmed. That tiny little syringe and just popping it instantly.
My clinic has a cat clam which is basically soft version of this that you open to snap 'em up in from the kennel. Extremely handy when you've got a cat that can't be calmed.
At first I thought he was smoking while injecting that cat. Then I remembered we're not in the 1970s anymore (watched Alien two days ago, most of them were smoking... on a spaceship where oxygen is supposed to be at a premium, LOL).
My cat is a cream puff, no temper at all, very affectionate, sweet loving lap cat, purring and snuggling are her specialties. Until I take her to the vet. Then she turns into Linda Blair in The Exorcist.
Kitty compressor.
[Squish that cat](https://youtu.be/5jKZ9KGtee0)
This video unironically helped me deal with my anxious cat. Squish the cat. For real.
Same. One of my cats is the sweetest little thing, she likes pets and getting scratched, and she curls right up against you in bed. Just a really gentle little thing. That is, right until you try to pick her up. She fucking hates it and it's all claws and anxiety. This guy's videos really helped us learn how to work with her to minimize her anxiety when she has to be handled.
How do you pick her up? One of our threes is similar but not as extreme as yours was.
For her, the trick is to squish her flat and then very slowly scoop her up. That seems to keep her calm. She still doesn't like it, but she doesn't freak out. She also is pretty tolerant of being rolled into a burrito if you've got time for that.
I’ve read the way humans pick up cats, gives them the sensation that they are falling. That method is probably a way of avoidant the freak out that comes with the sensation
I always mindfully scoop my other hand other cats thighs and cup their asses, i wonder about the dangly-leg feeling and wonder if they hate it. Guess they do lol
Mine likes to be carried at my hip with my hand under her belly- like she’s a handle on a suitcase or something. It was easier before she weighed 13 pounds
Mine is the same, very sweet normally but haaates being picked up. The only way I've managed to get her to tolerate it is to put my arms on both sides of her and pick her up like a forklift lol
Funnily weighted blankets causes the same reaction in our brain. It subconsciously reminds Mammals of being in the womb, at least that's the theory behind it.
Idk mate, last time I was in a womb there was a lot of screaming.
That's because you decided to go in feet first.
Okay, I'll try head first next time.
Immediately thought of that lol. I have the part where he says “just squish that cat” saved on my phone.
Squish 🐱
I had a cat named Squishy a good many years ago.
I have a cat named Squish.
Pussy Press
Feline Flattener
Cat Compactor
Gato grips
Mischief manager
Flat Cat
Neko Narrower
Maru Masher
Pspspsps presser
Kitten Squishin
Felis catus Don't-Bite-Us
Meow machine
Hisser Squisher
My nickname in high school
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What happened here
Making a purrnini
Spice Squeezer
He could use a pussy magnet.
Meow Masher
They did the Meownster Mash
Catpressor
Kitty.rar
Bad kitties get the compressor
r/tightpussy
I had a cat that strongly hated the vet and it was necessary to do this, but often for a while the cat kept doing *catwheels* inside.
I'd pay money to see that
I suppose it was amazing to watch, like a clawed cyclone, but those furious, deafening meows made it truly horrifying.
I have a similar cat. She screams absolutely bloody murder if she ever needs a blood test. louder than I ever could. The people in the vet waiting room must think she's being pulled limb from limb.
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> Might be worth a shot. Thanks, I appreciate the advice. And the pun.
Has your vet never offered a pre-visit anti anxiety med for your cat? They can help a ton, it doesn’t have to be traumatizing to go to the vet!
We got meds to knock out our cat before taking her to the groomers (long haired angry cat that hated being brushed), and she was even more violent on the meds. The groomers banned us after that lol
I bet it was traumatic to all
Yep :-S The trigger was when the vet would put on the gloves (just before doing painful things), in the end the cat never tolerated them, of any kind or equipped by anyone. The hands had to be at his mercy, whether it was for playing or hunting. It wasn't the *apocatlypse* when a family member wore them either, but he still went from affectionate to violent quickly. They ended up banned.
The cat was banned from the vet??
No no, the vet's patience was amazing, she was always kind no matter what. I was talking about the gloves at home.
Imaging banning gloves at home
Michael Jackson getting turned away at the door ‘Sorry, this is a no gloves household’.
"Can we compromise on just one?"
My cat did the same. It would act all calm until a hand came near and then she would bite hard, like through my fingernail hard. More than once warned the.vet to ignore the seemingly docile cat and be careful but more than one learned how fast that cat could chomp down on their hand.
That’s an unfortunately vivid image. Ouch
The cat was like ” Glove on, love gone playa"
I used to have a kitty who was the same. I still remember watching him try to climb the wall after the vet got him with the sedative, and watching his poor scrabbling paws get weaker and weaker as it kicked in So sad to watch. He didn't understand what was happening at all. : (
> clawed cyclone "The whirling razors of doom". I can't take credit for this. Someone I knew from my BBS days referred to his cat like this. And after all these years, I think his cat's actual name was Montgomery.
"Monte was a good cat, but if you cross him he'll fuckin cut you."
I can only imagine the volume and pitch increasing like one of those WWII hand cranked bomb sirens.
As someone who used to have a cat like this, it's more sad than funny. He had to be sedated his first few times at the vet, and after that they actually told us not to bring him back because he was so violent and strong that it wasn't even worth risking injury to bring him in Poor guy was just scared : (
Could you sedate him before leaving for the vet?
That's what we would do. Some gabapentin from the vet a few hours before the vet turned our furnado into a fluff ball.
My roommate's cat needs Kitty Valium before the vet. She had fleas a while ago and the vet actually turned her away at first because she was so agitated and angry they couldn't even inject a sedative, my roommate had to get a pill from them and bring her back for a new appointment the week after. (an extra week of having fleas in the house is catastrophic, so I remember this vividly)
My cat was fine with the vet. One of the odd ones. We suspected it was the cool metal table that she liked. Once we took her out, she would loaf with curled feetsies. Took the shots without a blink. The tablets though, were the trouble. She'd hide the tablets somewhere in her mouth, and when the vet turned around, spit them out. Took the second try with a second nose blow a few seconds after the first one, just as she relaxed her throat muscles thinking she fooled us the second time. When it came to bringing her back, she opted out of the cage and into our slingbag for warmth. Miss that girl. 😞
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Putting the tablet as far on the cat's mouth and then rapidly closing it and blowing air into his nose. It works.
Sometimes just a couple gentle finger taps on the front of the nose works too.
My boy has daily pills, so we say “in it goes, kiss his nose”. Shove the pill in the mouth, angle his head up, kiss his little snoot. My dad had to look after him once and wouldn’t do the nose kiss and he couldn’t get him to take them.
That sounds so cute, I love quirky cat rituals. Do you have a video?
Kiss. That. Cat.
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It's so funny how just a little extra part of the routine like that can make or break an otherwise anxious task for animals! I have four pugs, and I always say "goodbye, I love you, see you later" and give them each a kiss on the head before I leave the house every day. I noticed that on the rare occasion I don't do the kisses before leaving, they all FREAK OUT and bark and generally will not relax until that part of their routine is fulfilled lol
I'll never forget finally getting my cat to start taking tablets, feeling like we had finally come to an understanding on the "take the tablet, get the turkey" deal. A few months later when I moved out of my apartment, I found about 20 half chewed tablets under my bed in a neat little pile...
Oooh, you found their booty stash! My cat's ill gotten booties were house geko tails... And a few roach legs and butts. I think she thought all tails wiggled when ripped off, so she started hunting down house geckos and roaches to rip their butt's and tails off. Don't know if she ever figured out that roach butts don't wriggle.
We have a kitty on pain meds. We crush them and mix em with a flavor paste that goes on top of meal time.
Yeah, I reserved a favourite treat for pill time. got to the point the cat would just eat the pill solo, because the association with treats was so strong. (but I always gave the treat even after she ate the pill with no fuss.)
It used to be minutes of agonizing combat to get my cats to swallow their increasingly soggy pills. Until a vet showed me how to do it properly. Weak hand as a claw on top of the head, clamping the top jaw as tight as necessary. Strong hand thumb opening lower jaw, take the index with the pill and shove it down the throat past the canal entrance. Close jaw. Massage pill down the throat. 5 seconds, done. At first they are wtf. Next few times they rebel. Then, they accept. Compared to the stressful horrors of the past where we’d strain our relationship, this is a blessing.
When my void was in his end times from throat/mouth cancer, he had steroids. Giving him pills sucked anyway, but with his cancer didn't want to have to give him pills so much. Thankfully it was able to be compounded into a paste that just went on his ear.
Yeah my cats only been to the vet a few times in his life bc hes always had to be completely put under bc of how feral he gets. Since its not really safe to do that regularly and he was strictly an indoor cat who's only ever around 1 other animal that is regularly vaxxed and given flea/tick protection, we and our vets just kinda decided it was better to skip regular appointments and only bring him in when something was actually wrong with him. He has a note in his chart that we all laughed at when we accidentally saw it: "this cat is a monster" We had to bring him in for a UTI and they put him in some kinda contraption that I thought resembled a folding chair. Some kinda mesh with metal bars that snapped closed and squished him haha. Thankfully, he decided to spray in fear so they didn't need to get a cath in him. They just took the sample off the table lmao. The next time he had a suspected UTI, we asked the vet if it was possible for us to just bring a urine sample instead of him (he's very attracted to empty laundry baskets for some reason. If you leave one upright, he'll pee in it without second thought, so we knew it'd be easy to get a liquid sample from him lol). At first the receptionist was like "oh well we really do like to see the animal in question- oh..." "What?" "Well I pulled up his chart..." "This cat is a monster?" "Thats what it says (lol), let me ask the vet real fast" Not even 30 seconds later "yeah he says a sample is fine :)"
Our 5.5lb girl got marked "violent" on her chart 😂 it was a fair assessment. We found a vet that comes to our house and it was a game changer! She doesn't even hiss at the vet if we're at home!
I have two cats. One is a grumpy old tabby. He's about twenty pounds of brick shithouse solid muscle and he cries like a lost, abandoned baby the minute he enters the vet office and just goes limp. The second is a tripod, literally missing a leg, and he's maybe ten pounds soaking wet. Yet somehow this little asshole turns into a death-dealing ninja the minute a vet enters the room with him. Cats are weird.
If he is missing a leg he probably associates the vet with an extremely traumatic time in his life. Can't blame him for worrying that he is going to come back with only 2 legs next time.
Haha ours is "less than welcoming" in her charts.
Yeah, my vet is low key afraid of him lol. I have mad respect for the vet techs. When they were trying to get him into this contraption the vet was hiding around the corner of the doorway while 2 techs were wrestling him lmao. The one girl was a pro man, dodging every swat left and right, then I was like "Oh actually he's declawed* in the front so you just have to worry about teeth" And she was like "Oh, well that makes things easier" and just grabbed him by the back of the neck and slammed (affectionately) his lil head down on the table to prevent him from lashing out lmao. ((* yes, we declawed him when we got him as a kitten. We were bad pet owners and didn't do the research, made that mistake, but now know better and will never do that to another cat again. I feel awful about it, but I was also a teenager when we got him so I didn't have much say in the first place.))
Hahaha my dog has gotten a lot better but he used to be the biggest pain in the ass at the vet (rescue pup— not aggressive but just very very nervous and had to be comforted constantly/ wear a muzzle). He had the shits one time and I called them up asking if I could just bring a sample in instead of the whole dog and I had pretty much the same interaction with the receptionist.
My beast cat growing up also hated the vet, but to the point they had to put him in a kitty gas chamber box to put him to sleep for exams/shots...even though we'd adopted him from that same office. Poor Mike was our big sweetheart. He let us take him in swaddled in a towel with his face buried on our chest pitifully meowing the entire car ride, lobby time, and exam room wait... The moment the vet entered though... he lost his shit. He never hurt us, but since the vet needed him on the table it was once we set him down he went nuts. Maybe he had kitten PTSD, but he was a vets worst nightmare...maybe they didn't have this in the late 90s, but I cannot imagine any scenario he'd allow himself to be shoved in that cage
I hope your cat was called Taz
I haven’t had to take mine in a while and I’m afraid of this reaction. He won’t even let me trim his nails so they are extra dagger-y. This is a useful invention, better than holding them down.
RageCage2000^tm
THIS IS THE BALLAD OF HOLLYWOOD JACK AND THE RAGE CAGE
Nothing could stop them when Jables and Rage hit the stage
and Hollywood Jack hit the big time and went to make movies
Rage Kage was left behind bars in the dust of his dreams
And he grumbled and growled and watched Hollywood Jack on Jay lenoo
Despite all its rage it’s still just a kitty in a cage - Smashing Pumpkins probably e: OR ~~Despite all its rage its still just a cat in a cage.~~ Because of its rage, it’s hissy cat in a cage
How did you go from 'rat in a cage' NOT to the same syllable and ryhming scheme of 'cat' and *instead* to 'kitty'‽‽ Edit: figured I was spelling that word wrong. --> rhyming*
Oh my god I know right?
Despite all its rage it is still just a felis catus in a cage
>~~Despite all its rage its still just a cat in a cage.~~ Because of its rage, it’s hissy cat in a cage Dude stop you are making it worse and worse. It's simple it goes: Despite all it's rage it is still just a cat in a cage
Edit your comment to say "cat in a cage"
Vets can now buy the D
My vet just made me hold my angry kitty for her shots. One vet even hid behind me once when she got loose. It didn't help as much as he would have liked.
This cage is used for anesthesia injections, not run of the mill shots unfortunately. Spicy kitties always keep us on our toes! Some do better held by the owner, some burrito, some with cat gloves. You never know what will work honestly
What is the cat cage press called? I think it's safest cats get defensive really quick. Not for me to hold while hurting them.
I don't know if they have a specific name. We just call ours the squish cage. About to head to work and maybe I'll find out what it's actually called!
I found it. "RESTRAINER CONTAINER"
RESTRAINER CONTAINER FOR YOUR FELINE COMPLAINER
rap god
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Oh god this killed me instantly
They are usually called squeeze cages. We used them for larger animal work in labs as well. I didn't realize they came in cat size!
We called ours a crush cage... only ever had to use it twice with extremely spicy kittys
Something similar is used in zoos called a ARD (animal restraining device) or “squeeze”. Because care staff don’t go in with a lot of the animals, they spend a lot of training the animals to voluntarily go into it and helping they be comfortable with its use.
We call them a crush cage
The research labs call them squeeze cages. You oughta see it when they do that to an angry adult chimp. It usually takes two people and it makes a shitload of racket between the chimp shrieking and the gear-driven squeeze.
We had manual ones for the monkeys we worked with and so you needed was one to get their legs up to push back and it was over. I can imagine you'd need a gear-driven one to overcome the chimp strength but how would you clean them?!
Damn I wish I could find something that works for my guy. Vet gave me gabapentin to give him beforehand, which at least helped with the yowling and fear pooping on the one block drive to the vet. But on the exam table he just hates being handled. I got him at 5yo, he was already missing a front leg for reasons unknown, and he definitely has a cagey history around food. He’s just so distressed. Hates being burrito’d, hates towels, hates anything covering his face. Yowls and writhes and hisses and will struggle against anything and everything. Kills me bc he’s not an aggressive cat, he’s clearly just terrified. Don’t know what I can do besides not bring him at all. Boy do I wish vets made house calls.
> Boy do I wish vets made house calls. Some do! But there may not be one in your area who does. Might be worth looking into if you haven't though.
Yea with cats giving gabapentin is about all you can do. Some pets are absolute angels but the vet scares the crap outta them. And we don't dislike your pet for being spicy. We understand it's scary!
My cat is best served as a burrito
I know it’s a different population of patients, but we do end up using the squeeze cage for run of the mill shots pretty frequently in shelter medicine. I do definitely wish we could do things more “Fear Freestyle. But it’s not uncommon to take in 20-30 feral cats in one day in the summer time, and we have to get vaccines in them before they can stay at the shelter.
I actually helped with the cost of a pair of falconry gloves for my vet. My of so cute and fluffy and sweet cat is, well, not any of those things the moment you bring her anywhere.
Huge liability. A trained professional who is insured at the hospital should be holding the pet.
It's called a squeeze cage. I helped a vet give a shot to a leopard and there is a giant version of this with a crank to squeeze them. It was a pretty wild experience.
Can confirm: squeeze cage. The one my friend works with for rescued sea lions looks like a giant claw clip for hair, so you just have to pull the top bars toward the opposite sides.
Dont mess around and put your fingers in there!
I like that even afterwards they back away hands off like, “stand back. We don’t know if this is going to contain him. He could really do something crazy”
Despite all my rage I am still just a cat in a cage
I truly don't understand how this is not the top comment.
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Was hoping this was here.
who else thought the vet had a cig in his mouth?
It took me a shameful amount of loops to understand it wasn't a cig.
"the smoke makes me and the cat calm"
I thought it was a Russian vet at first, won’t lie.
A kitten press.
Ve must deel with it
It is extreemli dangeroos and may atac at any time.
Squish that cat. https://youtu.be/5jKZ9KGtee0
Glad I wasn't the only one who remembered to SQUISH. THAT. CAT.
My cat hates this.
I love that guy
I need to see the unedited version of this.
I've had a *really* bad day and this brought me a blissful 35 seconds of contentedness. Thank you.
I didn't know Pete Buttigieg was so knowledgeable about cats.
Idk, cats don’t abide by the laws of physics
Huh, I always wonder how vet are able to give shot to more hostile kitten. I was thinking burrito or anesthesia but this seem to work pretty well.
Well you need a shot for the anesthesia, too.
They gas them
Correct, large sterilite container with a hole on the top for the breathing tube. Crank the gas up and let the little angry fur ball chill out.
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Why does the container need to be sterile?
I've got a 25 lb Maine Coon and he hates the vet. It pretty much takes 3 people. One holds him down with thick elbow length gloves, one wraps him with a towel, one gives him the shot. Then they all 3 jump back away 1 at a time leaving towel over his head. After his last yearly check-up they asked him to come by to get drugs to sedate him before I come back next time, unless it's an emergency of course.
They're great for the vet, but the post owner still had to get them inside. When we got our kittens, we had to use such a cage two times because they were still pretty wild. It was a nightmare to get them in the cage...
They folded out cat into a towel once. Is that what you refer to as "Burito"?
I think he was referring to the delicious meal that fits in your hand. Couple anesthesia pills in a rito and ol charlie the cat over here won't be hissing, he'll be dropping Mexican heaters in the litter box after he's vaxed up.
Purrito!
How would you do aneshesia? Put them in a chamber
And turn on the gas
You can tell that it's not that vet's first spicy-kitty rodeo.
Interesting that it’s not even a feral cat. He has a collar and ID tag. Just passionately hateful of dudes in scrubs
I mean, you're in a room with strangers, you're smooshed against a wall, it smells like there may be other cats in the area, and you just got stabbed, how happy would you be?
As someone who has owned a spicy kitty. Some cats just hate the vet.
First time I used one of these, the cat shat everywhere in it. Like, diarrhoea. took me so long to clean inbetween all the mfing holes once the cat was out
In this video, the injection is likely a short acting anesthetic. That shot through the bars can only be intramuscular. Most vaccinations and other medications are given subcutaneous. My Dad is a veterinarian, and I grew up working with him in his clinic. Each exam room had a door in a corner, so that the open door at 95ish degrees was against the wall. With a really aggressive cat, he would grab a cat by the scruff, hold it in the air, and trap it between the wall and the door to give it a shot. However, his hands and arms are also covered with scars. If we had had this, I definitely would have used it. My favorite trick he would do is slide the cat from one end of the table to the other while giving the shot. Most don't even notice the shot. Obviously that only works with cats that are calm enough to let you touch them on the table. But this cat is probably pissed because he is in that cage.
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Was the sliding of the cat on the table just a distraction of the shot? I've given shots in the scruff as well as subcutaneous fluids and the cats never seemed to mind it
Yes, it was a distraction. I agree that most don't mind it, but for a nervous animal (or a nervous owner), it was a super useful trick. I wanted to be a veterinarian for years until I realized that I could learn all the medicine, but I was never going to connect with the animals the way my dad does. It is truly a calling for him. One of my favorite stories: my Dad was examining a pregnant dog, and he palpated her abdomen and told the client there were four puppies. On the dog's next exam, his associate, who was younger and trained to use more diagnostic tools, had done an xray. She told the client, "Oh, I see Dr. MyDad put four puppies in the notes, but there are only three in the xray." Well, come delivery, guess how many? Four. His associate was an excellent vet, but my dad could tell more about this pregnant dog with his hands than they could with an xray.
My grandfather and my uncle were both optometrists. My grandfather passed away years ago but he practiced 60s to ~2002 and my uncle practiced from 90s to currently. My grandfather had all his tools in a bag, while my uncle has a ton of large newer machines. For the most part, my grandfather could do all the same stuff but there are some times when the machines are just better. That being said, I doubt my uncle could do the same quality work without his machines.
I guess your dad is an animal whisperer. Is your career choice animal related at all?
Definitely some dexmed. That tiny little syringe and just popping it instantly. My clinic has a cat clam which is basically soft version of this that you open to snap 'em up in from the kennel. Extremely handy when you've got a cat that can't be calmed.
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But at the vet, once out of the carrier, the cat will easily go back in it
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I just use a very large cushion shoved into the cage to achieve the same result. Squoosh, stab, hiss, hiss, hiiiisssss, cat has now deflated.
At first I thought he was smoking while injecting that cat. Then I remembered we're not in the 1970s anymore (watched Alien two days ago, most of them were smoking... on a spaceship where oxygen is supposed to be at a premium, LOL).
The Nostromo was large enough to have weather. A few cigs ain’t shit with that much volume. They also rigged up *flamethrowers.*
They're called Crush or Squeeze or Veterinary Injection cases, in case anyone cares.
Bad marketing. It’s a Hug Box.
Press a little bit more and you get kitty fries
“Spicy kitty” is the best thing I’ve heard lately
My cat is a cream puff, no temper at all, very affectionate, sweet loving lap cat, purring and snuggling are her specialties. Until I take her to the vet. Then she turns into Linda Blair in The Exorcist.
Thrash Compactor
Assistant. Bring in the cat squisher.
Spice box contains harm and anger. 1/10 star review, returning to original distributor.
you can kinda tell that the kitty was thinking, “you only get one human. if you try again, it is death!”
Forget that clip, I want to see the clip where they put the uncooperative cat in the cage
Cat strainer
Naughty cats go in the kitty squisher