You can make a cat open his mouth by holding him under one arm, putting your fingers on both sides of his upper jaw and pushing the skin and gums down so that if the cat tries to bite, he bites himself. You have to be fast, and the cat usually gets in at least one swipe with a back paw.
It took me about five minutes to write that, and it still doesn't make sense. A vet showed me.
I remember being threatened that my father would spank me when he got home, but I don't recall that he ever did. The threat terrified me, though. From about 2 to 4, I kept doing things in stores that caused my mother to drag me out with one hand clamped around my elbow and the other swatting my butt. Apparently I once lay on my back in the middle of a rather fancy store and said "Hi" to everyone who had to step over or around me. Once I turned off an escalator. There were buttons. They were near the floor. How could I resist?
I haven't had them cleaned in 5 years, and the vet said they weren't too bad.
I just had Amarna's done for the first time in February 2007, and the vet tried to convince me this past summer to have it done again. I don't think so! It can't have gotten that bad in just over a year. I'll wait until it's really bad again (when I adopted her back in 2004, I was told by a different vet then that she'd have to have her teeth cleaned sooner rather than later, so I was prepared to have it done last year).
putting your fingers on both sides of his upper jaw and pushing the skin and gums down so that if the cat tries to bite, he bites himself.
Is my hand going over the top of his nose? I will try to remember this for next time.
I'm happy it was nothing, TB, and I hope the nothing moves on to msbelle. We need a whole lot of nothing going on.
grab the cat - get down on the ground, hold the cat between my knees and force the mouth open with one hand . yeah, I sat on the cat.
This is what I have to do with Jeeves when I need to medicate him. Although in my case, it's more a case of sitting cross-legged with the cat in a sort of leg-lock.
Is my hand going over the top of his nose?
I have the palm of my hand on the top of his head, with my thumb and forefinger forming an arch that frames his eyes. His head is small enough that my thumb and finger can get into the jaw joint.
Man, I got some pretty severe beatings right up through my teenage years. Black eyes and fat lips and all.
But I don't think of myself as a kid who was physically abused at all. Happened to other kids in my neighborhood and seemed normal.
I'm hoping all the news is boring, msbelle.
Immobilizing Devi is damned near impossible. She's super flexible. MK has strong jaws, but luckily he is a food whore.
The puppies have a crate in their pen.
My mother punished me once by forbidding me to watch Star Trek.
