Cat abuse or alien abduction?

[spinbaby]

Yesterday I scooped up the stray tomcat who's been camping out on our front porch and took him to the vet for the "spa treatment". He's huddled a blanket in the corner of our spare bedroom now and he looks so pathetic and miserable. I feel like I did something really terrible.

From his perspective it must be like an alien abduction. Think about it--he's snatched away, transported in a strange vehicle to a strange place with bright lights and weird smells, then he's drugged and probed before being returned home in a slightly altered format.

[demnan]

1. Well give him a few weeks

Once he realizes what thoughtful care you are giving him, good food, love and no worries about fighting other cats, traffic and other life or death issues, he will be so happy that the bad times will be forgotten, and he'll look at you as the Mommy you really are. He will love you.

[Scaramouche]

2. It this what you were thinking about???

http://www.chatteringmagpie.com/essays/vet_visit.html

Visit to the vet or alien abduction?
Imagine a visit to the vet from your cat's point of view ...

You're minding your own business, napping or perhaps playing with your catnip mouse. Suddenly, you're picked up and thrust into a dark, tiny box. There's barely enough room to turn around, perhaps a bit of light streams in. You feel yourself moving vertically, then horizontally. Suddenly, there's a loud roaring sound; you feel the affects of acceleration, then nothing, then deceleration. The sound ceases and you feel yourself moving again.

Without warning the box is opened. You find yourself in a bright antiseptic room, full of strange smells unlike anything on earth. You can hear the tortured cries of other animals, but you can't see them. A strange humanoid pokes you and prods you, injecting you with fluids that sting and burn. Then comes the final indignity - the anal probe.

It's over, but not soon enough, as you're once again thrust into the box. You experience the same sensations of movement, acceleration and decelaration. Then the box opens and you're back in your own home. The worst part of the whole thing is knowing your mommy and daddy are in full cooperation with the aliens! They go about their business as if nothing had happened, trying to deny their unmmistakable complicity.

So, the next time you hear someone talk about being abducted by aliens, consider this: they were probably just taken to the vet.

[spinbaby]

3. Hah!

That's funny. No, I hadn't seen it before but the thought of going to the vet being like an alien abduciton had certainly occured to me.

[demnan]

4. Yeah, I remember my gentle cat, Howard

the only time I ever heard him growl was when the vet inserted the anal thermometer.

Got to go, the Siamese is dancing on the keyboard and licking my hands, anything to get my attention.

[spinbaby]

5. Our vet doesn't routinely take temperatures...

...for healthy-cat checkups. That makes it a bit easier.

[Padraig18]

9. LOL!

VERY cute! :)

[Scaramouche]

6. My dog Shamrock had his balls removed before he was ten weeks old...

Which was before I adopted him...

At 2 months of age I had to take him to the vet for a dip because he had mange. At the door of the vet he put all 4 paws against the door frame and dug in with his nails. It was like an old Warner Brothers cartoon...


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[SWPAdem]

7. It took a few weeks

but our newest (rescued from the streets) kitty is now roaming the house with the rest of the critters and has officially moved out of her safe room. The addition to the household did set off some terrible bitchiness in our other cats, though...but towards each other, not the new kitty.

[Piltdown13]

8. I'm sure that's how my cat experiences it..lol

Poor kitty, he's actually going in on Monday morning to have his teeth cleaned -- the vet thinks maybe the bacteria from his surprisingly large amount of calculus and plaque might be why he seems to get lots of ear infections.