So DO they have ESP?

Because any one of our cats that had a vet appointment would always seem to disappear just when it was time to be crated, we implemented a new strategy.

We would get the crate out two days before and set it up (being in the RV, space is confined and all of our crates are folding crates). We wouldn't discuss the appointment - and tried not to even think about it! Day of, I'd just say, "it's time."

That generally worked.

Lazlo has been going for weekly chemo appointments every Tuesday. The time changes a little here and there, but it's generally in the morning. Our crate trick worked the first week. After that... it didn't. And he got SNEAKY. Instead of just hiding that morning, he'd come out for breakfast, act like nothing was up, go lie down in the front windshield or wherever. I'd think "thank goodness!" I'd go to get him - and he'd be gone! Of course he was hiding someplace that wasn't easy to get at him.

Well, now one of the outside cats needs to go to the vet (the stray that's so friendly, Baloo). It's not an emergency, but I'm pretty sure he's got lung worm. The past three times that we've planned to crate him are the ONLY three mornings almost this entire summer - certainly the past month - that he has not been here for breakfast!!!!!!

So tomorrow will be the real test. Did Lazlo just catch on to the weekly schedule? Or is it really ESP? His chemo appointment this week is WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON lol. So is he going to act like everything's normal - and then hide tomorrow morning? Or will he do this Wednesday afternoon?

Mine are all uncanny about sensing when it's time for me to do the big snatch and grab for a vet visit. I've tried putting out a carrier a week in advance. I've tried doing nothing to change my routine the day of the visit. Doesn't matter, when I go to pick them up, some of mine will hide under the bed.

Pinky is currently the worst. Eightball was just as bad. But Oscar beat both of them by far - he missed 3 years of vet appointments because he could not be caught on vet day. I schedule all of the cats appointments over a couple days time. I always try to catch the hard ones first before they realize that something is going on. Even with 11 vet appointments, Oscar would disappear just prior to every last one of them. For 3 years running.

Yes, they have ESP.

I agree. Speck is suspicious-minded anyway, but if DH and I are actually up to something, he really makes himself scarce.

They are crafty!!

I put the carrier in the garage as the cats are indoor/outdoor they won't get to suspicious by me opening the door to the garage. Bobber was the worst. I would start my routine a good 30 minutes before I would have to leave for the vet. Start shutting the basement door and then the bedroom doors to trap her. Most times she would hide underneath the bed in the middle just out of reach. A broom handle would have to be used at times to prod her enough so I could grab her. The current batch of cats are actually pretty good (for now).

Oh my gosh, is that ever strange about Baloo!! And how would he know .... The cats DO sense when our energy changes and I swear they can see right through us no matter how sneaky and tricky we think we are . Even when I had to clean Perkins chin, I would try to nonchalantly walk around and pretend I was dusting or something and not even look at him. But, he would take off in seconds flat, he just knew I was up to something. Any other time I would walk around and not have a thought at all about cleaning the chin, he would just nap away without a care in the world. Somehow, these cats DO have ESP and can read our minds .

I am interested in hearing about Lazlo today, since today is Tuesday, his usual vet day. Wonder if tomorrow he will think you forgot , somehow I don't think

Amy, that is amazing!

They ARE crafty - and intuitive!!!!

The Baloo thing is a mystery to me, seriously. No crate, nothing. He's not even HERE the mornings we plan to take him in for him to "sense" my behavior to be different when putting out breakfast! And twice when I was putting out the last meal of the day, we hadn't even decided to take him in the next morning! VERY ODD indeed!

As to this morning, Lazlo came out for breakfast, and never hid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now the real test is going to be tomorrow afternoon! (Well, late morning, when we'd have to leave).

OMG how do they know???? The same thing happens to me whenever I'm taking Lucas to the vet. the other's I don't know because they are all healthy, so their trips to the vet are scarce.

Lucas just knows when he is going to the vet, I have no idea how, but he knows. The crate is always in the same place, so'I think he just knows just by looking at me, maybe he senses I'm anxious or something, because I always get anxious when he goes to the vet.

Last time I had to force him in the crate and most of the times i need help to get him in, i hate doing that, but there is no other way, he gets crazzzy.

tammy

I say it's ESP!

Lynxx used to know when he was going to the vet. He'd run and hide. Even when we didn't say the word "vet" or his vet's name. Didn't do anything different around him, yet he sensed some how. He'd avoid us, then hide

Hope all goes well with Lazlo at the vet

Our kids always know, too. But they don't disappear, well, except for Amber, who I swear hears me set up her appt on the phone. And she's gone....until the day after her appt. I swear. She won't come out to eat, she won't come out to play, she hides.

The last appt we set for Amber? I called the vet from here at work on a Tuesday. It was for Thursday, two days after I called. That Tuesday night? She didn't come out to eat for Rick. When I got home, she was still in hiding. And that girl stayed hidden until the morning after her appt, including missing her meals. I had called the vet from work! And she knew!

The appt before that that was for Amber......I had called from home to set it up. Amber disappeared. So we figured that well, we'd just take another cat for a check-up, since the appt was already made. Rick took Whisper down. And as he drove down the driveway in the truck with Whisper in her carrier, Amber came crusing out of the bedroom, looking for supper.

It's uncanny!

Mine know when it's time for their flea treatment as they ALWAYS disappear! Elliott is by far the most sensitive to anything like this and it is always SO hard to find the bugger when we need to!

DH says we behave differently. Like I can say Hi Cindy Lou! and walk up to her and pet her 12 times but if I'm planning to pick her up for her pill the 13th time, walk toward her and say Hi Cindy Lou! She's out of there. I do think they can sense our thoughts sometimes.

Pam, we had a similar thing with Flowerbelle - one of those "it just can't be." (I mean, come one - you phoned FROM WORK and she knew!!!!!!). When we lived in a house, the bedroom was on the 2nd floor. The stairs to the upstairs were no where near the kitchen - they were on the opposite side of the living room, in fact. Her favorite spot was the top of the cat tree in the bedroom - again, 2nd floor, opposite the kitchen, up the stairs through the living room. WHENEVER we offered anyone treats in the kitchen, Flowerbelle would come running. There is NO WAY she could hear. SHE'S DEAF. Even if it was a "frequency" thing - she was just too far away. Not possible.

So to Lazlo. Definitely ESP. We were just working on our laptops as usual. 15 minutes before the alarm was going to ring to let me know it was time to feed the cats (happened to be we'd have to crate Lazlo after the meal to head out for his treatment), Lazlo slinked off to his hiding spot. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And he didn't come out for the meal for the first time in a long time. (Although I'm really not THAT surprised LOL).

Yup, definitely ESP!

I KNEW it It's affirmative Our furkids can read our minds and feel our energy no matter how hard we try to hide it !!!!!!!!!!!! Our cats are just such special little beings and so close to our hearts and souls that they feel everything we feel.

p.s. Mega to you and mega scritches to Lazlo tonight. Laz must feel the love through the airways from all of his fans on TCS

Originally Posted by LDG

So to Lazlo. Definitely ESP. We were just working on our laptops as usual. 15 minutes before the alarm was going to ring to let me know it was time to feed the cats (happened to be we'd have to crate Lazlo after the meal to head out for his treatment), Lazlo slinked off to his hiding spot. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And he didn't come out for the meal for the first time in a long time.

(Although I'm really not THAT surprised LOL).

Yup, definitely ESP!

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That's hiliarious! I don't know how they find these things out, but they do. Lazlo knew, he just knew.

Cats are so clever! Like how they know to look after us if we are ill? Clever cats.