My trip to the vets this evening
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45 mph in a GT-Four......
....with a cat that doesn't want to be there.....
Yearly booster time for the furry killing machine that I call a cat.
Joy.
So. Find the cat.
Find the catbox.
Find the cat again.
Introduce cat to catbox.
Cat goes in the cat box quietly (this should have been a warning to me)
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to drivers side, jump in and start engine.
Cat mieows.
Select reverse.
Cat explodes from catbox like that thing from Alien.
Cat runs around car shedding fur.
Open door.
Cat escapes.
Go into house and find parcel tape.
Tape box up securely.
Find the cat again.
Catch cat.
Introduce cat to catbox.
Cat goes in the cat box with a hell of a struggle.
Tape up wounds in hands.
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to drivers side, jump in (engine is still running).
Select reverse and get the car off the drive.
Cat rips through parcel tape like the hulk, scaring the crap out off me.
Car runs around the car in a panic drooling and shedding fur.
Open door.
Cat escapes. Again.
Go into house and find elephant tape. (I've used this stuff to stop kayaks leaking on white water)
Tape box up securely. Then use more tape.
Then think "sod it" and use the whole roll.
Find cat again.
Tempt cat using favorite treats.
Pretty much have to saw the cats legs off in an attempt to get him into the accursed box.
Take off gardening gloves (learning from my mistakes)
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to drivers side, jump in (engine has now burnt half a tank of fuel).
Get the car turned around.
Cat still in box, meiowing pathetically.
Comfort cat while driving.
Get halfway to vet.
Pointy eared escape artist does it again. This time at 40mph.
Cat runs around the car in a blind panic drooling and shedding fur.
Avoid crashing the car by about 3mm. This is not good.
Options. Stop, open door to get out and lose cat.
Or, keep driving and risk cat scratching eyes out.
Elect to take the eye scratching option. Glasses should prevent serious injury.
Cat runs around car shedding unbelieveable amounts of fur.
People giving me really funny looks.
Furry Fangio ends up sitting on my lap with two paws on the steering wheel looking out of the front window.
I'd have taken pictures, but I was rather busy at the time.
People now giving me *really* funny looks.
5 minutes pass.
Get to the vet.
Park the car.
Somehow get the car back into the box.
Get into vets rather harassed.
Nice vet takes 2 minutes to check and inject the cat.
She then spends 5 minutes helping me reinforce the cat box to get home again.
Takes 2 of us to get the cat back in the box.
Get the bill.
Stop laughing and ask for the real bill.
Get the same bill.
Pick myself up from the floor.
Pay a ton of cash for the privilage of the cat being injected.
Return to car.
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to drivers side, jump in and start engine.
Cat is silent.
Think uh-oh.
Leave vet.
Cat is silent.
Get halfway home.
Cat is silent.
Worry that cat is dead.
Get home safely.
Cat is silent.
Now really worried. Has cat escaped silently? Is cat plotting revenge?
Get catbox out of car.
Open cat box.
Cat saunters out, give me a "What?" look and wanders off.
I stand there like a gibbering idiot.
Cat lies in sun.
Open beer.
Drink.
Open second beer.
Get vacuum cleaner out.
Open third beer.
Clean cat hair out of car......
He's now next to me on the sofa with his feat in the air snoring contentedly.
As much as I love him, sometimes I wish he was a goldfish.
....with a cat that doesn't want to be there.....
Yearly booster time for the furry killing machine that I call a cat.
Joy.
So. Find the cat.
Find the catbox.
Find the cat again.
Introduce cat to catbox.
Cat goes in the cat box quietly (this should have been a warning to me)
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to drivers side, jump in and start engine.
Cat mieows.
Select reverse.
Cat explodes from catbox like that thing from Alien.
Cat runs around car shedding fur.
Open door.
Cat escapes.
Go into house and find parcel tape.
Tape box up securely.
Find the cat again.
Catch cat.
Introduce cat to catbox.
Cat goes in the cat box with a hell of a struggle.
Tape up wounds in hands.
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to drivers side, jump in (engine is still running).
Select reverse and get the car off the drive.
Cat rips through parcel tape like the hulk, scaring the crap out off me.
Car runs around the car in a panic drooling and shedding fur.
Open door.
Cat escapes. Again.
Go into house and find elephant tape. (I've used this stuff to stop kayaks leaking on white water)
Tape box up securely. Then use more tape.
Then think "sod it" and use the whole roll.
Find cat again.
Tempt cat using favorite treats.
Pretty much have to saw the cats legs off in an attempt to get him into the accursed box.
Take off gardening gloves (learning from my mistakes)
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to drivers side, jump in (engine has now burnt half a tank of fuel).
Get the car turned around.
Cat still in box, meiowing pathetically.
Comfort cat while driving.
Get halfway to vet.
Pointy eared escape artist does it again. This time at 40mph.
Cat runs around the car in a blind panic drooling and shedding fur.
Avoid crashing the car by about 3mm. This is not good.
Options. Stop, open door to get out and lose cat.
Or, keep driving and risk cat scratching eyes out.
Elect to take the eye scratching option. Glasses should prevent serious injury.
Cat runs around car shedding unbelieveable amounts of fur.
People giving me really funny looks.
Furry Fangio ends up sitting on my lap with two paws on the steering wheel looking out of the front window.
I'd have taken pictures, but I was rather busy at the time.
People now giving me *really* funny looks.
5 minutes pass.
Get to the vet.
Park the car.
Somehow get the car back into the box.
Get into vets rather harassed.
Nice vet takes 2 minutes to check and inject the cat.
She then spends 5 minutes helping me reinforce the cat box to get home again.
Takes 2 of us to get the cat back in the box.
Get the bill.
Stop laughing and ask for the real bill.
Get the same bill.
Pick myself up from the floor.
Pay a ton of cash for the privilage of the cat being injected.
Return to car.
Open door and place catbox in passenger footwell.
Shut door.
Run around to drivers side, jump in and start engine.
Cat is silent.
Think uh-oh.
Leave vet.
Cat is silent.
Get halfway home.
Cat is silent.
Worry that cat is dead.
Get home safely.
Cat is silent.
Now really worried. Has cat escaped silently? Is cat plotting revenge?
Get catbox out of car.
Open cat box.
Cat saunters out, give me a "What?" look and wanders off.
I stand there like a gibbering idiot.
Cat lies in sun.
Open beer.
Drink.
Open second beer.
Get vacuum cleaner out.
Open third beer.
Clean cat hair out of car......
He's now next to me on the sofa with his feat in the air snoring contentedly.
As much as I love him, sometimes I wish he was a goldfish.
you cant beat introducing a cat to a car they love them 
had a similar mission a year ago with one of the cats , never again 
The spaniels on the otherhand love going for a drive , Scampy sits in the passenger seat reading the road ahead and braces herself for the bends , very amusing to watch
We took our dog and our parrot in the car last week to go to the seaside for a couple of days. The dog loves 'going for drives' and was flat out across the back seat the whole time. The parrots only been in the car a couple of times and he would not settle in his little cage. I ended up getting him out of the cage and letting him sit on my shoulder (I wasn't driving!!) He stayed on my shoulder for the whole journey and proceeded to shout "what you doing?" at the top of his voice whenever we overtook anything or anything overtook us. He even ducked down when we went under bridges. It made a few people laugh when they saw him.
Took our neighbours cat for a quick ride down the shops a long time ago.
Thing was fine till i started driving and then it went apeshit....
As with Mr E, it ended up on my lap looking thru the window with its paws on the steering wheel.
Mind you, it did eventually calm down.
Cats claws in the nuts while driving, is really not to be recommended to anyone.
Thing was fine till i started driving and then it went apeshit....
As with Mr E, it ended up on my lap looking thru the window with its paws on the steering wheel.
Mind you, it did eventually calm down.
Cats claws in the nuts while driving, is really not to be recommended to anyone.
Mr E, you must've been reading Alan Coren or 'How to Live With a Calculating Cat' by Eric Gurney, no?
'Furry Fangio ends up sitting on my lap with two paws on the steering wheel looking out of the front window.'
That's exactly what happened with mine once! Animals loose in a car are never a good idea. Goats are geneally the worst, but until you realise there's a tortoise stuck under your brake pedal you've never known the meaning of fear.
>> Edited by simpo one on Thursday 7th August 21:38
'Furry Fangio ends up sitting on my lap with two paws on the steering wheel looking out of the front window.'
That's exactly what happened with mine once! Animals loose in a car are never a good idea. Goats are geneally the worst, but until you realise there's a tortoise stuck under your brake pedal you've never known the meaning of fear.
>> Edited by simpo one on Thursday 7th August 21:38
simpo one said:
Mr E, you must've been reading Alan Coren or 'How to Live With a Calculating Cat' by Eric Gurney, no?
Actually no. But it sounds like I should....
My biggest fear was that the beast would either scratch my eyes out, or end up in the footwell in the way of the controls.
As it was, he seemed much happier on my lap where he could see. Changing gear was tricky.
Today, I shall mostly be in second.
sounds like you should get a proper cat box then matey 
Our are perfectly fine
Orange did play up a little bit last time, but by all accounts Mrs Zee was in a hurry and not in a mood to be messed with so the cat got the UPS treatment. Hardly surprising he became petulant. They never do that when I take them....
Our are perfectly fine
Orange did play up a little bit last time, but by all accounts Mrs Zee was in a hurry and not in a mood to be messed with so the cat got the UPS treatment. Hardly surprising he became petulant. They never do that when I take them....
CarZee said:
sounds like you should get a proper cat box then matey
This is a serious catbox. The problem is that it has a 4" hole in the top covered by a little hatch. The idea is you can open it so kitty can stick his head out and be comforted.
To my cat, it's a weak spot. The lock on the flap held. But the hinges the other side didn't.
I'm still not sure how he got through such a small hole though.
I have developed a safe way of getting our cat (its a big cat, moving it more than a few inches by hand is not recomended) in to its basket for such journeys.
get cat in lounge, very easy just make loud noise in whatever room its in and it runs to lounge.
leave lounge closing all the doors and windows.
close all the doors in the hallway
get cat basket out and put in hall with basket door open, put coat over basket leaving just entrance open.
open lounge door
scare cat out of lounge, follow it quickly and shut lounge door behind you, when cat realises there is no escape from the hall it bolts to nearest shelter ie cat basket. close door of cat basket.
grin smuggly at cat as it realises you won.
get cat in lounge, very easy just make loud noise in whatever room its in and it runs to lounge.
leave lounge closing all the doors and windows.
close all the doors in the hallway
get cat basket out and put in hall with basket door open, put coat over basket leaving just entrance open.
open lounge door
scare cat out of lounge, follow it quickly and shut lounge door behind you, when cat realises there is no escape from the hall it bolts to nearest shelter ie cat basket. close door of cat basket.
grin smuggly at cat as it realises you won.
Our old cat used to love a little drive - my parents live at the top of a small cul-de-sac, and when he heard any of our cars driving up the road, he'd wander out and sit in the middle of the road waiting for us to stop.
Once stopped, he'd saunter round to the driver's door and wait for it to be opened, then would jump in and peer out of the window as we drove up to the house!
Very cute until he got a bit older, and needed the assistance of his claws on my leg to pull himself up into our Land Rover!
He also used to enjoy sleeping inside my parent's car when they left the sunroof open, and on more than one occassion surprised whoever was driving somewhat by voicing his displeasure loudly when he woke up and found out that he was on the move!
After this happened a couple of times, it became normal to do a quick cat check before setting off!
Once stopped, he'd saunter round to the driver's door and wait for it to be opened, then would jump in and peer out of the window as we drove up to the house!
Very cute until he got a bit older, and needed the assistance of his claws on my leg to pull himself up into our Land Rover!
He also used to enjoy sleeping inside my parent's car when they left the sunroof open, and on more than one occassion surprised whoever was driving somewhat by voicing his displeasure loudly when he woke up and found out that he was on the move!
After this happened a couple of times, it became normal to do a quick cat check before setting off!
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