Flora, my first cat wasn't over impressed with her first few check ups / travelling in the new carrier. After she had been spayed, I got another one that she could see out off, which solved that.
Getting her into the first one, though, usually involved rolling her up in a towel, which was a game she played ... we did it so often, that the times she ended up in the basket was such a tiny proportion that it stopped mattering to her.
She was OK travelling, it was the smells at the vet she hated.
Until one chrimble morning.
We found about a three inch cut under her foreleg (armpit) , not bleeding but such a big hole would need stitches.
So, off to the vet.
I scrubbed up to act as assistant [i/c patient control] and the vet did it all under a local + sedative ... and we all got to eat our dinners at almost the right time !
[got a discount off the very high cost, as I had helped out and we were acquaintances of the principal partner, which had started several years earlier - I ordered printed stationery for him at work]
Next check up - Flora was fine, none of the usual yowling.
Flora was fully all black, not a single white hair [until a few grew on that armpit] so when we first took her in to book the spay, she was such a stunner that the principal partner insisted on doing the spay as a midline, just in case ... she was also incredibly vocal at the best of times, enough that I wondered if she had some Siamese in her lineage.
) and knew immediately how it likely worked, hence why I took my time to point it out with an explanation, fucked if I will bother in future though!
