This morning I took Sylvester to the vet for his Spring "haircut" and checkup and it was a FIASCO trying to get him this time! Last year we had a very easy time of getting him and putting him into the carrier, we open some of the windows in a spare room, he goes to look out, we bring the carrier into the area, I pick him up and put him down into it, close it up and off we go. Well, this time, I brought the carrier upstairs yesterday and put it behind a recliner chair, we were told that this is okay to do, but last night he saw it, didn't freak out but saw it. This morning, he was fine, hanging around me while Deb was in the bathroom, when she came out somehow that little bugger KNEW that we were going to the vet and slinked off! It took us a half hour to get him, he was downstairs behind the sofa, I move the sofa and he runs upstairs, then we go upstairs and he runs back downstairs 200 times until we FINALLY got him cornered in the spare room. I picked him up and hugged him and told him "it's okay, it's okay..." but he was upset but I calmed him down on the way and while we had to wait for them to come out to get him thanks to this plague I opened the carrier and just stroked his neck and he calmed down, but I don't understand how it can go from either so easy peasy getting him to a nightmare! This has to be about the 6th time or so that we have done this, he should be used to it at least a little by now I would think? And he LOVES his haircuts, when he gets home it only takes him a day or so and he thinks he is "all it", so why does he get so nuts to go at times? Maybe we should've made sure that he was in the room first then went downstairs for the carrier but we tried that once too and just that little clink noise that the door made spooked him and he hid, he has ears like radar! So we thought if we would just put the carrier upstairs this time it would be closer but it was a mess, he was walking around and close to me but when we were ready to get the carrier and try to get him somehow he knew it was coming and hid!
This is him and me and Deb when we are trying to get him-
This is him when he is done and back home-
This is still me for a few days-
Any suggestions for 5 months from now lol?!
This is him and me and Deb when we are trying to get him-
This is him when he is done and back home-
This is still me for a few days-
Any suggestions for 5 months from now lol?!