Tracey, you have our sympahty, we've been through this with Fister who is a big and strong cat, and it's definately NO fun!

If it's any consolation, Cirrus will probably get used to the box over time - but it takes patience and a lot of it!!

The first few times we had to take Fister to the vet, we were nerveous wrecks about catching him and getting him in the box, so we also had to sedate him.

He started with a pill called "Plegicil" 10 mg. and that made him into jelly, but we felt sorry for him, as the effect lasted at least 11 hours. He looked so helpless. So we spoke to the vet about it and the next time we tried "Diazepam" 5 mg. which is equivalent to Valium. That relaxed him enough to get him in the box and the effect wore off much quicker.

We also tried giving him one of those on New Years eve, half an hour before the fireworks really started and he was only under the bed for 10 min.

To make him eat it, I crushed it and put it inside a few shrimps - seal them properly!!

Best of luck!