Getting the cat into a carrier?

[brigden]

Cats are wonderfully intelligent animals, don't you think?

 

[ThaGrandCow]

Originally posted by: Moralpanic
hmm my parents cat is a fighter too... take her by the scruff of the neck, and just place her in... when you hold them there (back of the neck), you've got full control of them.

Yeah, if you pick them up by the scruff I think it's an instinct for them to go limp and be very docile. I'm assuming it's genetic so that mothers can carry their kittens around.

 

[Vic]

Cats are helpless when you hold their front legs together and in front of them, something that you should be able to easily do with one hand. Then use your other hand to shove it into the carrier. Holding by the scruff doesn't work because it leaves all their natural weapons free.

 

[Yossarian]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Originally posted by: ausm

Originally posted by: FallenHero
knock it out with a hammer

My cat is to damn fast for that....this is what I do. I put a string through the back cat carrier and tie his catnip filled mouse to it. I pull the mouse into the cage and he follows it in everytime.

Ausm

Nice!! Would work well for me, if I didn't have 9...

Maybe if I isolated the one I was trying to bag...

amish

You have 9 cats? Are you an old widowed crazy woman?

 

[Rastus]

Has anybody here tried to put a cat in a toilet?

 

[Angrymarshmello]

Stand up the kitty carrier and drop the cat in. Step on it if it refuses to go in.

 

[FoBoT]

tranquilizer dart gun?

 

[Azraele]

The carriers that open on top work wonders.

 

I got bad scars from my last attempt. No real way to do it but get their head and front legs in first.

 

[Windogg]

This cat carrier works well.

Windogg

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Windogg
This cat carrier works well.

Windogg

That never gets old.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

Originally posted by: amnesiac
Wrap the cat in a towel and dump it into the carrier.

 

[sharkeeper]

Ceiling fan?

-DAK-

 

[Wag]

Yeah, animal cruelty can be oh so funny.:frown:

At any rate, I purchased a larger top loader and left it out, open, in the living room. When I brought it in she ran and hid, a few hours later she was inside investigating, a few hours after that she was curled up inside of it.

Lol, I bet you when it's time to go the vet she'll want no part of it.

 

[rockyct]

Wow, our cat is so well tempered. When it's time to go to the vet he knows what's going on but doesn't resist. We get the carrier out and put a blanket in it with a couple of treats on top. We place him in front of it and he just walks in, eats the treats, and lies down. He cries a little in the car but not too bad. He also is great during baths. He doesn't make a single sound and doesn't even try to escape. He's eight years old but he was always like this. We did have a wild cat before him, so we do know how calm he is.

 

[calpha]

Originally posted by: rockyct
Wow, our cat is so well tempered. When it's time to go to the vet he knows what's going on but doesn't resist. We get the carrier out and put a blanket in it with a couple of treats on top. We place him in front of it and he just walks in, eats the treats, and lies down. He cries a little in the car but not too bad. He also is great during baths. He doesn't make a single sound and doesn't even try to escape. He's eight years old but he was always like this. We did have a wild cat before him, so we do know how calm he is.

You don't have a cat. You have a dog trapped in a cat's body.

 

[wfbberzerker]

i think the best idea is to do what breakapart suggested, of course that takes time.

 

[rockyct]

Originally posted by: calpha

Originally posted by: rockyct
Wow, our cat is so well tempered. When it's time to go to the vet he knows what's going on but doesn't resist. We get the carrier out and put a blanket in it with a couple of treats on top. We place him in front of it and he just walks in, eats the treats, and lies down. He cries a little in the car but not too bad. He also is great during baths. He doesn't make a single sound and doesn't even try to escape. He's eight years old but he was always like this. We did have a wild cat before him, so we do know how calm he is.

You don't have a cat. You have a dog trapped in a cat's body.

lol, it does seem like that sometimes but he is in fact, a cat. Pics to prove it:

stretching
doesn't mind the bathtub
staring

 

[RaiderJ]

oh wow, this is funny. I've only ever had dogs, and they get in carrier's just fine, for the most part. However, bath time is rather amusing. My dogs will sit in the tub and let you do whatever.... unless you turn away. then they try and mad dash out, which is rather comical considering they get no traction on a tub.

lol

 

[IGBT]

Get a pair of elbow length weilders gloves and a full coverage face shield and go for it..