Originally posted by Vio&Juni
I hope you won't be upset with me, but I laught out loud with tears!!! Poor Ritzy! Fortunately, here in Moldova you can have the vet visit at home, you just pay a little more. (Our vet's office is just around the corner).
Juni is absolutely terrified when I try to take her out for a walk and although the Central Park (the nicest place) is here just across the street and a lot of people take their pets there, I wouldn't even try to cross the street with her. We walk on our small green territory and that's it. She is not afraid of our outside gang of kitties, but she is afraid of the outside.
Oh, and that sound

sounds familiar to me too
No apologies necessary - I know this is familiar territory with many petttalkers, and sometimes it helps to chuckle.. I know she is not being hurt, I just wonder what goes through that little kitty brain.

I think, like Juni, Ritzy's primary problem is with "not being home"....we can open her mouth, examine her teeth, feel all over her, and she is completely agreeable to OUR touch. I know it's a trust and familiarity thing with her....the vet office doesn't look or smell the same and there are other strange animals there, and she absolutely HATES being confined, which is the other part of the equation. Once she is back home, she is her old self again.

I often wonder if a visiting vet would have the same problems. WE don't have such a service in our area.

We do keep tabs on Ritzy and supplement the vet check with regular reviews.- check the regularity of litter output, size and consistency - about once a month dadcat checks her teeth, opens her mouth shines a light in her ears, feels all of the undercarriage parts and body for any unusual lumps or changes...so she is a well cared for kitty.

Don't worry about laughing - after it's all over, I chuckle at it too, watching her roll over on her back after she gets home, doing the little "cutest kitty" routine, working the room for affection...and I think, "what a little Jekyl and Hyde pussycat you are, Ritzy!"