I forgot to mention, hold him facing away from you, that way if you
don't have as firm a hold on him as you thought, you won't be as likely
to get scratched!
Nina wrote:
Practice scruffing one of your calmer cats. Get a gentle handful of
skin and fir at the back of the neck and to the shoulder blades with
your full fist. You'll probably notice your cat relax when you do
that. Keep him on the ground or table while you firmly hold him this
way and he won't be able to struggle. It's great for a frightened cat
a the vet's office. If you lift them off the ground, they'll go
completely limp. You want to make sure that you support the weight of
the cat (under his butt) with your other hand, or you could hurt him.
Small enough kittens can be scruffed without the support. It's a
safety mechanisim to insure that babies don't struggle when their
mom's are moving them from place to place. Also, male cats will bite
the back of the female's neck while mating. It's not to be matcho,
it's a way to get the female to hold still long enough to copulate.
Nina
Chris wrote:
I try it everytime I come back from the vet--but no success--like you, I
just can't seem to do it properly and afraid of hurting them....
Chris
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I've never even scruffed a cat--I'm afraid that I won't do it properly
and perhaps hurt them! I have a lot to learn.
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Subject: Fishing nets to catch feral babies
I've heard about using the fishing net, a friend of mine uses it on
feral babies. After she gets the net over the kitten, she scruffs
him through the net. She'll have a carrier placed nearby with the
door open
and facing the sky. Then all she has to do, is drop the baby in and
shut the door. You have to be very quick for this maneuver!
Mackenzie, Kerry N. wrote:
I agree, it truly is traumatic catching ferals that have to go to the
vet. Or even catching them when the vet comes to them. The housecall
vet
I've used a couple of times ingeniously uses a fishing net to catch
them, the kind with a long pole. I got one myself, for keeping Caramel
in place when I had to give him sub Qs. (I still have to do the
catching
by hand---I haven't got the hang of using the net to do it). Kerry
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