Because any one of our cats that had a vet appointment would always seem to disappear just when it was time to be crated, we implemented a new strategy.
We would get the crate out two days before and set it up (being in the RV, space is confined and all of our crates are folding crates). We wouldn't discuss the appointment - and tried not to even think about it! Day of, I'd just say, "it's time."
That generally worked.
Lazlo has been going for weekly chemo appointments every Tuesday. The time changes a little here and there, but it's generally in the morning. Our crate trick worked the first week. After that... it didn't. And he got SNEAKY. Instead of just hiding that morning, he'd come out for breakfast, act like nothing was up, go lie down in the front windshield or wherever. I'd think "thank goodness!" I'd go to get him - and he'd be gone! Of course he was hiding someplace that wasn't easy to get at him.
Well, now one of the outside cats needs to go to the vet (the stray that's so friendly, Baloo). It's not an emergency, but I'm pretty sure he's got lung worm. The past three times that we've planned to crate him are the ONLY three mornings almost this entire summer - certainly the past month - that he has not been here for breakfast!!!!!!
So tomorrow will be the real test. Did Lazlo just catch on to the weekly schedule? Or is it really ESP? His chemo appointment this week is WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON lol. So is he going to act like everything's normal - and then hide tomorrow morning? Or will he do this Wednesday afternoon?
We would get the crate out two days before and set it up (being in the RV, space is confined and all of our crates are folding crates). We wouldn't discuss the appointment - and tried not to even think about it! Day of, I'd just say, "it's time."
That generally worked.
Lazlo has been going for weekly chemo appointments every Tuesday. The time changes a little here and there, but it's generally in the morning. Our crate trick worked the first week. After that... it didn't. And he got SNEAKY. Instead of just hiding that morning, he'd come out for breakfast, act like nothing was up, go lie down in the front windshield or wherever. I'd think "thank goodness!" I'd go to get him - and he'd be gone! Of course he was hiding someplace that wasn't easy to get at him.
Well, now one of the outside cats needs to go to the vet (the stray that's so friendly, Baloo). It's not an emergency, but I'm pretty sure he's got lung worm. The past three times that we've planned to crate him are the ONLY three mornings almost this entire summer - certainly the past month - that he has not been here for breakfast!!!!!!
So tomorrow will be the real test. Did Lazlo just catch on to the weekly schedule? Or is it really ESP? His chemo appointment this week is WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON lol. So is he going to act like everything's normal - and then hide tomorrow morning? Or will he do this Wednesday afternoon?