I usually bring the carrier out a day or so before and try to make it look like an end table - very casually sitting next to a chair.

So getting one of them in it isn't the problem it is the horrific HOWLS AND YOWLS that start up once they are secured in them.

It continues all the the way to the vets - TORTURE IS IMMINANT........

Once I get them to the vets all noises STOP...............and then driving back home is usually just as peaceful. I always laugh at Rascal because once I am home he swaggers out of the carrier in front of Annie and Emma like - "it was nothing girls".............