Whether a clinic trip is routine or urgent, cats usually fare badly if their owners don't handle them well. Many pets become increasingly difficult with each distressing experience. There are a few ways in which to help lower your cats stress level to the vet.
Positive Associations
Cat baskets are generally stored out of the way between these special, invariably negative trips. Keeping them as part of the furniture and creating good associations can make journeys, whatever their destination, less stressful.
Preparing to Leave
Cats really do seem to have a sixth sense when it is time to leave for their appointment; they will have mysteriously disappeared from their haunts and may be found in especially inaccessible places. To avoid the stressful handling that inevitably ensures, try the following tips well before you are due to leave:
- Get or keep him indoors in good time before you go
- Stay calm or he will sense your anxiety
- Keep stressful handling to a minimum
- Tape down his blanket in his carrier so that it doesn't slip out
- Cover the carrier with a cloth to reduce the stressful impact
Stress Relief
You can make his travelling kit smell reassuring with a commercial pheromone spray or by rubbing the inside with a cloth onto which you've gathered your cat's own scents. Also, spray a covering cloth to surround him with a stress reducing atmosphere.
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