I just grab the cats and stuff them in their respective carriers. The only real danger is getting a hernia from picking up Toke, since she weighs about 600 pounds.
Mom! Dead people are talking to you. Do the math!
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Natter 74: Ready or Not
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Steph L. - Jul 10, 2015 11:57:47 am PDT #699 of 30003
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
-t - Jul 10, 2015 11:59:18 am PDT #700 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I have found that I can Advantage the cats more easily if I don't hold them down to do it. I sneak up on them while they are eating or sleeping and squeeze a dose onto the back of their heads before they know what hit them. They don't love it, but by the time they want to run away it's all over.
Been a while since I stuffed them into a carrier, I think at this point they are just getting old and have less fight in them. Or less strength.
Beverly - Jul 10, 2015 12:21:34 pm PDT #701 of 30003
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
We left the carrier out behind the Big Chair in the living room, and we kept all the cat's toys in there. We tried him with a hard carrier and it freaked him out so bad we switched to a soft carrier. He still didn't like it, but he felt more secure with the strap worn cross-body and the carrier under my arm, with it--and him--snugged against my hip. Getting him into it was easy, as the top zipped open, and so did one end, so you could choose the simplest for whatever circumstance.
Sheryl - Jul 10, 2015 12:25:03 pm PDT #702 of 30003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Sox!
Happy belated Birthday, sarameg!
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 10, 2015 12:36:08 pm PDT #703 of 30003
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I can get Jackson into the carrier since he's so eager to get down from being held that he'll dart into it to get away from me. But the one time I put Molly in a carrier she bit me hard enough to draw blood through leather gloves. She's only going back to the vet if she's too sick and weak to put up a fight.
-t - Jul 10, 2015 1:18:51 pm PDT #704 of 30003
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
The soft carrier that unzips in three places does seem easier than the hard carrier, although securing everything with the cat inside can be challenging.
Zenkitty - Jul 10, 2015 1:28:11 pm PDT #705 of 30003
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Everything I've seen made to transport cats seems to imagine that the cat will be staying still, not turning into a frantic flying ball of claws and teeth. For creatures that love to hide in small dark places, boxes with doors on them shouldn't be DOOM.
shrift - Jul 10, 2015 1:32:21 pm PDT #706 of 30003
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I just got a voicemail from that IRS imposter scam where they say the IRS is filing a lawsuit against you.
Jesse - Jul 10, 2015 1:41:26 pm PDT #707 of 30003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hilariously, someone I sort of know from the internet (we've done a couple of group things together, but I don't think we've ever had one-on-one interaction) just emailed me about seeing Magic Mike, and I was like, "Did you mean to send this to me?" And she did. Heh.
Jessica - Jul 10, 2015 3:07:59 pm PDT #708 of 30003
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
My sister was an associate producer on Hand to God (the show where that asshat tried to charge his phone on the set). #irrelevantnamedropping
You guys, camp is making my kids such assholes at bedtime. They're outside all day running around doing awesome fun camp things, and then they come home exhausted and wired and they don't listen and they can't calm down and it's only the first week and I am so. over. the. tantrums. Go. the. fuck. to. sleep. #samuelljacksonsaysso