Can't remember when I saw that guy last. Heard he's retired. Guess I'll have to find another one. In like a decade maybe when I actually have money.

Sometimes you gotta put yourself in the carrier and take yourself for your shots 😔 Make sure to get a little treat afterward.

I used to think it was a good idea to avoid doctors, too. Didn't see one for 30 years. Maybe 40. (Had no health insurance. Thanks, America!) Slept off my first heart attack; no big deal, right? When I finally ended up breaking a leg and couldn't avoid surgery any more, I went through two orthopedic surgeries, one open heart, and a thoracic surgery to remove something cancerous, all within 6 months. Some of that would've gone undetected and possibly killed me if it hadn't been found opportunistically. So maybe no news isn't always good news when it comes to your health.

That's how we know determine that you are American, instead of cutting your leg off and counting the stars and stripes.

Not since mom took him to the pediatrician

That is an awesome name for a fat cat.

I’m officially stealing this my next black cat. 👀

OMG, I love that name! I’m always naming cats at the shelter I volunteer at, so this name just went to the top of my list.

My little void is named Magic lol

... Because the cat is a black hole that eats everything😂 genius name😅

Feel that, did this with my dogs, too. My cats are already stressed out when leaving the house so I couldn't do that with them. But you do the exact right thing

That's super clever!!!

I might need to start doing this lol

Do you bring your cat to the vet when he really needs it, or are you just cautious?

@@someone3187 Both. I’ve had my current feline overlord for about a year. My previous kitty passed during the pandemic at the age of 19. She was much more anxious at the vets than my current lad. With my late Misty, she’d had annual checkups then more frequent visits as she grew older and started having health problems. And as she needed more visits the more scared she became. (kidney disease, arthritis, and lastly seizures from a possible brain tumour) One of my biggest regrets is that my faithful feline friend died when she was scared because lockdown meant that the home euthanasia service I’d planned on couldn’t happen. She was shivering in fear and I had nightmares for months afterwards because it felt like I’d failed her. I’m determined to do everything I can to never have one of my cats suffer the same. I take the responsibility of having a pet very seriously. Ensuring my little overlord gets proper routine medical care and lives in an environment that is safe and free of major stress (at least in the areas I can control) is hardly an unreasonable standard. Spending extra time desensitising my Bro’dee to travelling to and from the vets and spending time in that environment now while he’s young and mostly healthy (mystery GI issues) will hopefully make it easier for both cat and vet staff in future. I also brush his teeth, routinely handle his paws (like I would if I were trimming his claws), and use his brushing time (which he loves) to make sure he’s comfortable being touched from nose to tail. And I consider myself fortunate that my vet practice are very happy to accommodate. Once, the practice was completely empty due to some cancellations and one of the vet nurses let us into an exam room and ended up playing with Bro’dee for around 15 minutes. If I can ensure he remains that relaxed and happy to socialise with the humans who occasionally use rectal thermometers and needles on him throughout his life then I think I’ll have accomplished something really positive for both my furry friend and the amazing humans who work at my vets.

Have one that is the same, just a towel to keep him feeling safe.

I have an escape artist, aptly named Houdini. Gets out of the carrier by himself. But will happily spend an entire car ride in the arms of the passenger.

do you know what pvp means in this context then?

Yeah, one here too, but she behaves well on a leash, so she'll sit on my shoulder during vet waits

Best frenemy.

@@anjafrohlich1170 thank you very much! I try my best to give my cats the best life possible, that includes vet unfortunately 😅. All of them had a rough start in some way or another, they deserve the best now.

@@I-zl9ngThat sounds just like the cat I have now lol. She just randomly showed up on our back porch last summer. We found her one day just chilling in the shade on the patio. Took to us right away as her new family.

"Looks like a cat, so I guess he is one" made me laugh so hard.

I've got one of those... mine was 3 years old when my daughter found him under a cactus... he was bleeding when he sneezed, and everyone thought he wouldn't make it to the weekend, let alone Christmas... he has since been adopted by my dog and I ask her where her other puppy is and she let's me know where the cat is... he is sweet, and every vet and tech he meets falls in love with him... we didn't name him 007 but maybe we should have, lol blows everyone's mind who knew him before how he acts now... he would assault dogs would never let a human pet him... and now he gives US hugs and pets. He even petted our chicks when we were raising them up. No claws... just siblings.

Sounds like the CDS is working perfectly!

I read that as pterodactyl at first and was extremely confused

@@ashillag8368 Me too. I thought it was a name but then they gave it another one. What?

HAHAHA !!! VD= Veneral Disease...right MOM???!!!

That name gives Scooby Doo vibes

What else could VD mean? I dont want to put my assumptions out there! 😂

Ha. Came across this, a woman saying she loves to overhear her husband Jeff talking with a vet. "And what is your cat's name?" " . . . . . . " "Your cat's name, sir?" " . . . . Baby Jeff!"

Always great to see a fellow Banjo-Kazooie fan in the wild.

@@Joshmsu45 Actually a Minecraft KZfaqr fan, but dad did make all the banjo kazooie jokes

I was today years old when I realized people my age have kids that are on the internet…

​@@MadddCatter My first thought was minecraft.

This is the best Name Ever

@@estrella9944 I don't know. I think Pico de Gato is the best name ever.

You make a convincing argument...🤔 I'm going to have to take that into consideration for the future 😊

Hahahahaha, love it😂🤣🐱👍

We resemble that. My daughter rescued a litter of 4 kittens, we got them all healthy & found good homes for the 3 boys. She kept the little female runt & named her Tiny. The vet chuckles when this 14 pound chunk, meanders out of her large carrier.

Over the years we have had cats named: Grimley, OBeron (King of the Fairies) Selket (Egyptian goddess) and now I have Flurkin and Trinka (I refuse to explain those names because it takes way too long)

That’s a long life well lived, I’m sure! It’s good that you’ve recognized an area for improvement! I’m sure she was very well loved. You really don’t have to take them a ton, my family mostly does an annual checkup and otherwise takes them in when they seem off. Just try to learn the signs! ❤️

@vincentgeiszler3749 thank you. Yes, she did live a good long life. And I learned a lesson. I am more on top of my current pair. That yearly exam will save in the long run. ❤️

My old boy had kidney disease and died at 14 even with us giving him a special diet for years so don't feel too bad, you still got a full life out of him

15 is life expectancy. Even if you had taken him in annually, there's not much that can be done with a 15 year old cat with kidney disease. That's Just how they go.

@kuro4843 Thank you. I guess we always want more years w our furry friends.

Smart girl!! haha!

I call that subtle persuasion

She’s just trying to help you bypass waiting times lol!

We had a little one like that. She was the sweetest little 7 pound cuddler at home, but instead of meows when in public, she sounded a battle screech that made your hair stand on end. She terrorized a big vet tech, then strutted over to me and would want chin scratches. Every time I had to take her to the vet, they teased that poor guy, for years...."Hey Joe, your girl "Xena" is here for you."

how'd things turn out with Smokey?

@@ninam4066 No microchip, so he's ours now. And definitely a little spicy at the vet, though nowhere near needing sedation or anything.

I had a cat that every single vet loved. They loved him so much that a vet actually donated a whole surgery (did it for free) to save his life, because we couldn't afford it at the time. He even purred while getting a catheter. He just wanted attention. From anyone. At all times. So I can definitely understand the "milk is spicier than this cat" statement xD

I had a flamepoint named Demon. He earned his name. Not bc he was mean. Most loving cat in the world. Even loved children. He loved and demanded to be the center of all attention. Problem was he was the destroyer of worlds. I would be asleep and hear stuff breaking and furniture being knocked over. I couldn't have a Christmas tree till after he passed. I would happily never have one up again if I could have my baby boy back.

@@allisonl.7687 I can understand the feeling. I just consider myself blessed to have my little demon while he is still with us.

Our vet assistant calls the patients name to come into the exam room, and let's just say one of our girls names has a different meaning in Chinese. She was named by my son.

Your snip clinic's staff have the hearts of cowards 😂 Furburger is excellent

Cowards

One of my dogs nicknames was fat princess

1 I love this, and 2 I have been informed by a certain feline to tell her owner that it is rude not to capitalise The Fat Princess, Her Royal Chonkness, most Bootilicious of Her Name, so please correct that in future wrings, OR ELSE. 😅❤

@@Finkeldinken lol, i shall apologise to Athena, which is her actual name :)

Bless you for adopting both of them

@@spiralrose aw thank you ☺ I live by the saying "adopt dont shop" and when i told the people at the rescue that one had a neurological problem they asked if i wanted to give the cat back, i considered it for exactly 0 seconds and said no. Salem my nerodiverse black "unlucky" kitty shall stay till he passes and my (not fat at all XD) fat white and black princess is steadily loosing weight and shall stay as well. it wasnt what i expected but im not dumping them because of some "issues" its just more work and i know how it feels like to be both as ive got a few KG too many myself and ive been diagnosed with ADHD last year as an adult. both seem to be enjoying the silence compared to the 40+ cat rescue play they were at before as all were in one big room together. they are lovely well behaved and full of love, will have to make some adjustments once money allows to my apartment so that they both can be cats to the fullest. have a wonderful day you lovely person ☺

My dog's name is Solan, but a good 75% of the time I just call him "sir" 😂.

My daughter asked me to pet sit her cat named Kitty while she traveled and spent a year in Mexico. That was 2 1/2 years ago... her new name is Catness since I have a dog named Peeta. I'm still looking for a president Snow and a Haymitch. 😁😄

Yes!! I have a cat named "orion" as in "Orion's Belt." But I call him "cheepy." Because he cheeps instead of meows. Like a bird. Occasionally if he goes to the vet, we'll refer to him as "Cheepy" and confuse the techs. lol

Why am I singing this to The Good Ship Lollipop?

@@TheGelasiaBlythe Because you have good instincts! That’s how I sing it! 😊

Hahaha Oreo the golden! ❤ Poor yucky

Golden Oreos are my favourite …I see the connection 😂

Maybe it's because the dog was sweet like an Oreo.

​@@TheSamjane4golden oreos are best oreos

Ha! We had a farm cat named Axel for the same reason 😊

I know of two feral kittens found under the hood of a car that traveled from Erie, Pennsylvania to Sherman, New York. Thank God they were both unarmed and they’ve now been adopted and are happy. Best advice… Always bang on the hood of your car before you started up… Often that banging noise will make any cats inside of it crawl out. I have no idea how they even get in there, let alone crawl out of there, but this is what they tell me

OK but honestly I only ever bring my cat to the vet if he has a weird health concern.. we get all his vaccines done at pop up clinics like once a year and that's it.. the little bastard makes any trip he has to be Ina crate a living hell and the vet doesn't let us bring him in without one so unless I'm desperate it's not happening...

To be precise a 14 year old cat that has never had anything wrong with him up until that point. Skipping vaccines is risky though. Nobody wants to lose a pet to something so easily preventable.

I live in an area with frequent rabies, outbreaks, by that I mean once every couple of years it hits the news. You’re damn right I’m going to a vet to get those vaccinations. I’ll skip my groceries if necessary.

Same. But cat's go from 0 to 100 with their health problems in a lick. I found that out the hard way with my 13-year old at Stage 4 cancer. Lil shit was a fighter 😢

@@chiak333 Yeah I just had that the other year, he was dropping weight and not quite right, but they had injections for the lymphoma, expensive but he did really well and he's still here, being a spoiled brat.

I had a cat who was fine with goling to the vet until he was neutered. Once that happened, it was hell getting him to the vet and hell for the vet and techs, no matter what. He had an injury to his tail some years later and while he stayed next to me at home until I could hire a professional cat wrangler to get him in his box the next morning, because of course, this happened at midnight. I slept with him and his bloody tail to calm him down. After the surgery, the vet techs could not get him in his box. Two of them. They had to drug him. I told the vet it was because he knew they took away his nads.

The only thing that finally got my two cats to stop fighting the carriers (the third never cared) was being forced to spend an hours long flight in it, followed by a 5 day drive cross country in it (stops every night) when we moved from Hawaii. Before that, despite seeing the carriers just sitting around, open, everyday, usually with feliaway and sometimes even treats in it, those two found like lions. That poor TSA agent. He wouldn't even do a drug search of their carriers. He looked like he was flashing back to a past life wherein he was killed by The Ghost and The Darkness. They have NEVER bitten anyone except in play (no skin breaks) or scratched them except by accident.

I keep the cat carriers out all the time, so they are used to them, they even sleep in it. I do have some extra ones and even that is not a problem when I get them out. I also try to touch paws etc. regularly, like checking them anyway because you never know and they are fine with that too. Didn't want to have any problems when they need to go to the vet or when we had to travel because we knew we had to move a few times (even international). They are such good kitties.

Not all the meds are like for humans, things like they sell for firework stressed dogs can make it worse as now they can't move but are still aware. I can imagine that's traumatising. I've had a reaction to my own anxiety meds where they made me super tired and did zero for my anxiety so it just made it way worse.

@@VeeBlack All of my cats have been way too smart to be fooled by "random cat carriers lying around". The current one removes collars, opens doors and knows how to shut my computer off. Fraidy cat (the one in the story) got his cone off in 30 min (same visit, tail amputation from degloving). I had to explain to him don't lick your tail. Oddly enough, he listened. With that cat, it was all about who he trusted, and that list was very very small. Everyone else, he hid from or growled at. My first cat was extremely gregarious, loved people, was OK with my roommates' big dog, and hated other cats. Cats have personalities. They are not all the same.

You mean "Rebecca"?

@@its99pm Yes. l I don't know what happened there. I for sure thought I wrote Rebecca. Don't think I could plain that on autocorrect, its just so wrong.

I cannot imagine what it is like to come home from work to an entire litter of kittens on your couch. crazy. Sometimes cats choose you haha

My neighbor had a tuxedo cat with a little black hitler mustache. My kids called him Kitler

@@melindaames1408 LMFAO truly inspired. Absolutely love it.

Don't forget Kitty Amin and Cattilla the Hun!

I get why they do it… Cats are a little dictators. I would never give them those names myself because I wouldn’t want my friends to associate them with evil people in the history. But I absolutely understand

I mean, cats are little dictators, but that's a little on the nose, don'tcha think? /lmao

Actually... except for the naming part, I feel eerily represented...

For real, have had several dogs that were mutts we took in off the street or from someone that was giving away puppies 😂

My dad had a cat in college named She Who Must Be Obeyed. She uh. She earned it with the other cats.

Mine haven't needed meds either, I think it's just particular vets/patients that may require them.

Many years back my dad and I shared the same vet for our dogs and we once had a same day/time appointment, so there was my two and my dad's four all taking up the waiting room. The tech had a laugh over the waiting room being all one family.

Family next door to my mom's has four dogs and an uncertain number of cats. While I assume they've been to a vet in fourteen years (just because the oldest dog is maybe six) I could understand if it's hard enough to get all the kids to a doctor, let alone all the pets (and their mom is a pediatrician).

It's a mash up. We default to the cat naming methods, but the dog vet visit schedule. For example, our cat is named Cat (because he followed me home one night and I'm not keeping him. It's been 12 years), our dog is Pierogi aka Rogurt, and our late kitten was Sir Pawl McCatney but went by Big Pawlie and Pawlie Nonuts. They all visit(ed) the vet routinely though.

My mom has a Daisy that has the nickname Karen, she hates everyone and everything except mom, she especially hates other cats. She basically wanders through life swearing at everything that crosses her path. The running commentary of cat swears and demands to speak to the manager is constant, especially after she lost her cushy house cat role due to using poop as her medium of choice for expressing displeasure about everything - the climactic event being pooping on my dad in bed. The rest of the farm colony I'm pretty sure I've literally seen roll their eyes as she barrels through directing insults and outrage at every cat who dares to enter her eyeline.

@@elizabethmilliken1345 that was well written and hilarious 😂

My barn cat lived to a very ripe old age and we never took her to a vet. She was an adult feral when she came to us and we never could get her into a carrier. If you can get them into their teens you’re doing a good job.

You know 14 isn’t old for a cat right? Cat should live to 20

That they're lucky?

Ummm 14 is close to 20 sppll

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