What do your furbabies do at the vet?

Limerick had his checkup today. Needless to say he was not thrilled. He was shaking and looking for a place to hide but he did well. He didn't hiss or try to hurt me, the Vet Tech or the vet. He got a booster and microchip and didn't make a sound. I'm so proud of my boy! He has a clean bill of health.

With Limerick being so well behaved I was wondering what your kitties do when they are a the vet?

Ripley growls and cowers on the examination table.

Fergus thinks he's at some type of show...he's a suck-up. He's been deemed one of the only cats my vet has ever seen that seems to actually enjoy the experience. He'll love up on ANYONE...the receptionist, people in the waiting room, the vet, me...whoever.

Captain Steuben criiiiieeeeeessssssssss, and then gets nippy.

Well, Jazz has to be pried (sp) out of the carrier . As soon as I put Maggie May in the carrier she poops!!!! . When we get to the Vet she just walks out on her own as if to tell the Vet "I'm here, by the way can you clean up the mess in the carrier"? Maggie does well during the exam but Jazz has to be held down or she will run! But they don't hiss or try to scratch anyone .

My girls are generally very well-behaved. They're scared, obviously, but very good about being handled. Peter gets absolutely pretrified, though. At our last visit no one (not me, the tech or the vet) could pry him out of the carrier, so we had to remove the top for him to be examined.

Mine all do their best rag doll impression. They just go completely limp. It would be so cute if I didn't know they were actually scared to pieces.

Bumper walks around and sniffs everything, his nose goes really red and he loses half of his fur.
Boomer usually will just sit on my lap and wait like a good little kitty.
Scully plomps his butt down in the window seat and waits to be picked up and put on the examination table at which point the vet gets kisses, meowmy gets kisses, vet tech gets kisses.

Magnum, you need 4 people to pry him out and then he hisses and bites everything in sight

We either tip them out of the carrier or open the top up.

If they are at 'their' vet - Leanne - my cats are pretty good. They also behave for their second choice vet - Michael, but they genuinely like Leanne. I would only take my cats to the head vet there in an emergency (he's perfectly competent, and has several awards, but I don't like the way he handles my cats, and Molly and Sláine are terrified of him).

I like Leanne too - she's competent and gentle - she only takes temps if it's indicated, not routinely - she likes training and trying new things - I wish I could clone her and train the clone up as a gp.

Molly likes to hide her face in my arms at the vets. Bobby purrs at Leanne - almost constantly. Slayer runs around and cat types on the vet's pc. Sláine is pretty calm mostly, though if she's held too long she gets wiggley.

Bobby growls a lot when in pain, but it doesn't mean anything - Molly doesn't, but she's actually dangerous - we've had to wrap her in towels and things if she's decided she's had enough.

The other two are just wigglers, but perfectly safe to handle.

ETA: Molly and Bobby lose enough fur each to make a whole new kitty.

8-Bit cries the WHOLE way there, then cries some more in the waiting room, then won't get out of the kitty carrier when the vet wants to examine him. We have to dismantle the whole thing to get him out. Once he's out he will curl up in the vets arms like she is his best friend, and let her do what ever she wants. It's a bit frustrating.

Scratch will get into the cat carrier, will cry a little, but once the vet touches him he turns into "dead" kitty. He just gives me this look like "You are so going to pay for this when we get home".

She basically tries to wriggle away from the vet, and cries when restrained. But that's it.... she's such a good girl!

My old vet lied - he told me Bumper was a freak for losing all his fur at the vets and here we are with other kitties doing the same... if it weren't for me never going back there I would tell him that!

Originally Posted by icklemiss21

My old vet lied - he told me Bumper was a freak for losing all his fur at the vets and here we are with other kitties doing the same... if it weren't for me never going back there I would tell him that!

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Every cat I know sheds when they get nervous.... What was that guy thinking?

Milo is pretty good at the vet. He cries a bit, but other than that he's good.

Zebra freaks out. When we brought her in for her shots about a month ago she was going crazy and scratching everyone, especially while they were doing an earmite check and cleaning her ears. Today when I went to get her to put her in the carrier to bring her in for her spay she scratched my arm up and freaked out and ran away. I chased her around for like 10 mins and finally got her, just as I was about to be late for bringing her in. She had to be there by 8:45 and I didnt catch her until after 8:30. She cried the whole way there and when they took the carrier from me to bring her back she looked sad.

All they do is shed. A LOT. There are tons of fur poofs everywhere after they leave.

Autumn is shy and will hide her head and blow her coat. Meeka becomes a holy terror. She had a bad experience at the vet and since then has become very aggressive (never was before). Poor girl...last time they had to use gloves to get her out adn when they did she peed all over the floor. She has a lot of negative connections with the vet. Hope...well we will find out on Friday! She hasn't been in since November I believe so this is her first time in as an adult.

Wonton cries all the way there, the most pitiful meow..i always feel terrible :/ once we're there, he'll come out if we give him a minute. once he's there he's ok, he'll sit quietly on the examining table while we wait. he's ok with the vet, but when he gets his temp taken, he always gives a little growl. i don't blame him though, i'd give a little growl too

I don't think my cats think it is so scary at the vet. One of them just purr constant when you hold her and pet her, even at the vets, so our vet couldn't listen to her heart because of that.

Pudge asks me to pick her up, then curls up into a shedding, shaking ball and tucks her head under my chin. She is shy aroud strangers, and the addition of a strange place=stressed out Pudge.

After a bit of comforting, she calms down, I put her on the table, she calmly lets the vet examine her (claws in, no hissing or growling), and is then all too happy to be returned to her carrier. She just lounges around the carrier quietly and sleeps during car rides.