are ur cats like this too?

[inkspot14]

everytime i visit the vet they have to sedate poor max!:( he goes absolutely bonkers. I think my vet thinks he's crazy.
do your cats behave this way?:eek:

[toastco]

Your not alone in your cat going bonkers when he goes to the Vet.
:( I have six and Two of mine are the same way. It takes me, a vet assist and sometimes the Vet to do anything with two of mine. Shadow my Maine Coon and Snuggles my Tabby mixed. But the other four are just angels when they go to the Vet. I think cats are like people, in that some don't like to go to the doctor and others adjust even if they don't want to go.
My Maine Coon, Shadow is a sweet gentle cat at home, But he will scratch, bite and meow loudly when he goes to the Vet: I always dread taking him to the Vet.
Mom of six babies (cats) Three (dogs

[yorkster]

I think it's pretty common. My 3 kitties are quite mellow at the vet. The only one that has a problem is Wylie, and he just kinda lays there with a fearful look on his face (and sometimes pees on himself :eek: .............poor guy)

[krazyaboutkatz]

I just lucked out with my three. They hate to go to the vet but when they get there they are very mellow because they are also very scared. The vet can do anything he wants to with them. He was even able to scrape some tartar off of Pepper's teeth. I'm so glad that my cats don't have to be sedated. :)

[NoahsMommy]

Not yet...but somehow I see it in the future for Noah...my "MEAN around other people cat".... :rolleyes: :o :rolleyes:

[Tom Horn]

We have this routine with my cat Ingrid where we plop her in this aquarium with a lid on it & start the gas going. She hisses a little at first, because she's angry, but after a few minutes she settles down, tucks in her paws, starts blinking and eventually puts her head down. It takes just a little more and then we can take her out.

But we have to keep her muzzle in this cone; her tongue hangs out & she dozes. My vet is very cautious with the gas (and I'm glad of it); she usually has to turn it up slightly, because Ingrid will respond to my voice, try to get her head out of the cone, maybe begin to growl just a little.

Otherwise there's simply no way they can examine her. She will NOT allow it. All the fear that she has of that place (the odors & chemical traces that tell her many animals have been there & some have suffered pain there & some have died there) translates into rage. She'll even let me have it if we don't knock her out.

This from a kitty who loves to have her belly rubbed, will let me bathe her in the tub, and even puts up with being rinsed under running water!

:D

[Miss Meow]

Mine HATE going to the vet. I don't think it's the vet visit itself but warning of home medication afterwards. About a week after we got our babies they had ringworm (possibly from another animal on the plane) so it was six weeks of blobbing cream on them twice a day. Then Jasmine got flu twice so lots of mucking about with that. Then eye infections, then microchipping (made me more queasy than them!) then x-rays, surgery, follow-ups. Gosh, no wonder the vet charges us nothing now!

Last time Jasmine jumped out of her carry cage and ran behind their fridge - we couldn't reach her from either side to get her out! The vet was glad because he hadn't dusted there for a while!

[C.C.'s Mom]

Eddy never makes any problems, but Rudie.... He has a yellow card at the vet office, which means he's evil! They have to wear special gloves to even get him out of the box...

[Tom Horn]

A yellow card--that's funny! Like in soccer.

Before Ingrid decided basically the hell with it, that she was gonna declare global thermonuclear war if anybody tried to touch her at the vet's, and scorched earth or whatever would result & she didn't care, she'd actually bitten all the way through one of my fingers (right through the nail) one time because she was so upset. And the vet's assistant put on the kind of gloves you may be talking about: these big, thick leather jobs like riveters' gloves that go all the way up past the elbows.

Nobody enjoyed all that drama. Least of all Ingrid.

So now we just gas her before an exam. It's so much easier!