Tom is very aggresive at the vet. The vets told me they never had trouble handling a cat, even aggresive ones, but tom is a different story.
He's a very big cat, he is also in excelent muscular condition [and he's 15 so its surprising to see a strong senior cat], he has huge paws and huge canine teeth.
At the vet they have 3 peeple holding him and its still difficult to do anything.
The reason he acts this way is because he is tired of going to the vet for his blood glucose checked. He had never been this way before he was diagnosed with diabetes.
They can't do a BG curve.. when they tried he caused so much trouble all the vets had to have a meeting to talk about the situation and see what they could do. The BG curve was cancelled.
I was taking him to a very good veterinary place until they screw up BIG TIME, so I changed him today to another place. I was very upset that such a good, expensive place would make such a mistake. But they had learned to handle him.. almost every vet there ends up with big scratches and bites whenever I take Tom... but any work they needed to do was done.
They were also a bit rough when the held him down.. another reason why he defends himself so much now.
At home he's not like this, but at the vet he even bites me.. he does bite me a little less strongly than with other people, but if he's to stressed he can give me a big bite. Sometimes he slips away from me because he moves so much. He doesn't fall, he just manages to free himself from me.
I don't know what to do, any ideas how I can help him?
I'm in the process to learn to use a glucometer so we won't have to stress and scare him as much, but in the mean time I want him to be a little less aggresive because sometimes the vets can't do anything to him, and he needs to be handled specially in emergencies.
How can I calm him down? Both me and the vet pet him for a while, but he's not dumb, he knows he's going to be tested soon so he still bites when we pet him.
I just don't know what to do anymore
sorry this is long, I always end up writing long posts, but I want to give as much info as posible in case anything might be necesarry knowing.
He's a very big cat, he is also in excelent muscular condition [and he's 15 so its surprising to see a strong senior cat], he has huge paws and huge canine teeth.
At the vet they have 3 peeple holding him and its still difficult to do anything.
The reason he acts this way is because he is tired of going to the vet for his blood glucose checked. He had never been this way before he was diagnosed with diabetes.
They can't do a BG curve.. when they tried he caused so much trouble all the vets had to have a meeting to talk about the situation and see what they could do. The BG curve was cancelled.
I was taking him to a very good veterinary place until they screw up BIG TIME, so I changed him today to another place. I was very upset that such a good, expensive place would make such a mistake. But they had learned to handle him.. almost every vet there ends up with big scratches and bites whenever I take Tom... but any work they needed to do was done.
They were also a bit rough when the held him down.. another reason why he defends himself so much now.
At home he's not like this, but at the vet he even bites me.. he does bite me a little less strongly than with other people, but if he's to stressed he can give me a big bite. Sometimes he slips away from me because he moves so much. He doesn't fall, he just manages to free himself from me.
I don't know what to do, any ideas how I can help him?
I'm in the process to learn to use a glucometer so we won't have to stress and scare him as much, but in the mean time I want him to be a little less aggresive because sometimes the vets can't do anything to him, and he needs to be handled specially in emergencies.
How can I calm him down? Both me and the vet pet him for a while, but he's not dumb, he knows he's going to be tested soon so he still bites when we pet him.
I just don't know what to do anymore
sorry this is long, I always end up writing long posts, but I want to give as much info as posible in case anything might be necesarry knowing.