Does your cat hiss at the vet?
Peanut is the only one of mine who does. He doesn't scratch or bite, just yowls and hisses as soon as he comes out of his shipper. The rest are very well-behaved. Just wondering how many others have cats who feat up at the vet.
I have to be honest, none of my cats have ever been terrified of, or hissed, at any of my vets in the past 18 years of have cats here permanently, rescue DSHs/DLHs or pedigrees.
The only poor boy to have some counterattack, was Jules - my instigator of wanting to live with, and then, much after that, breed Maine Coons - my very precious, direct off the street, rescue Maine Coon look-alike-chirp-alike-play-alike-cuddle... baby.
He be the most laid back, intelligent fur -gentleman anyone could ever wish for. He was brilliant for everything, except, for the journey to the vet. I don't know how he knew, as I would lug him for short training journeys, very often, contained by the car. But as soon as we got in the vehicle to go to the vet, which had the same duration as I would embezzle him for every car ride...he became Hell Cat (his colour suiting his mood - Red).
But, as soon as he got to the vets', he be an angel with a capital A! Weird! And I still don't know why he was close to that to this day. Purr babe at home, purr babe for car journey, purr babe at vets, BUT complete Red Devil on journeys to the vet? !!
Maybe he picked up on tiny anxieties we have, unknown to us in our subconscious, on the way to the vets?
I may nouns like a complete mad cat personage here now, by saying, that cats seem to sense things route beyond us. They are intelligent creatures (that's why we are drawn to them, along with their stellar personalities) and seem to have a 6th unexplained sense (like women hold that men can't fathom)...So, maybe, in an esoteric weird style of putting it, cats, like women, sense things when they are different, or, out of the ordinary, even if they are non threatening.
I grew to trust Jules' strange ways and, at one time in particular, he was howling and hissing close to a beast possessed, at a back window...When we put our coats on, get our torches, turned on the back up security lights and ventured external, suddenly, a shadow ran away up the garden. When we got to where on earth the shadow was, it/they had been trying to find into our garden shed.
It was from then on that I fully 100% trusted Jules' gut allergic reaction.
I think Leopold hissed once. Which surprises me because he typically loves to get out and meet people. Even ones that stick him next to needles and stuff a thermometer up his butt and poke and prod at his abdomen. He will normally just wander right up to the vet and look at him as if to say "Watcha doing?" I figured Louie The Large would hiss because he's moody, but he simply sat there and took it! I think he's too dumb to hiss at the vet. Ferra NEVER hisses at the vet, solitary new kittens. She's purrfect. My bearded dragon hissed at me today. Guess I'll hold to pick him up more. I don't think three days being out of town helped his tolerance training any.
Answers: No, my cat is actually very mellow. He only really hisses at my Aussie mix, Lexy.
He does look angrily though...and if looks could kill!
depends on which vet she see when we go in, with the one vet she will fluff out and hiss and growl and win really gnarly at
with the other vet she's pretty mellow and lets that vet give her her shots and check her over.
i haven't the foggiest concept why she chose to like the one and dislike the other, they are both wonderful vets.
My one cat jessie does now and a cat i used to have did everything possible to hurt them. The vet used to call her sycho kitty! LOL! Its completely normal too though. They smell the other animals scents and stir crazy.
Not yet! Mia turns into crazy cat (although she already is) when she's at the vet. Her ears fold down and her teeth come out (not for biting, though) and she shrinks down.
Mimi is a total love bug and is fine next to everyone!
Snowball won't let anyone but me touch her and therefore puts on her distressed meow until mommy holds her at the vet. I have to hold her for shots and everything- if not they have to knock her out! Poor thing!
Mo hasn't had angelic experiences at the vet. When we adopted her, she was almost a year, but she looked similar to eight weeks. She was so scrawny. The shelter didn't notice because they thought she be so young. She was small. The vet told us she was going to die. She fought through it, but made it out beside some not so good things. She is deathly afraid of everything, from loud noises and men to of all things, foot. It's taken me two years to let her allow me to pet and hold her. She's a love bug to me now, but petrified of the vet. Poor baby!
At adoption events, the fosters are exceedingly well behaved. We usually hold them in a kennel, but Mimi (she's a foster) is now on a harness and leash, because she's such a little woman! She sits on my lap upside down, purrs, lets people pet her and even runs around near the dogs (she isn't around our dogs at home). People like seeing her and being able to hold her in need her jumping. Mia stays in the kennel for the most part, unless I hold her. She get upset with the other cats, all the people and the dogs. She even hisses at Mimi while in that. She sleeps in the litter box! I feel so bad.
Tibbins gets completely angry at the vet, she doesn't hiss but she gets this rumbly growly yowly thing going on there :P She's also a biter - and my! Does she bite unyielding! Ouch!
Archie is just a big floppy teddy - he is fantastic. He is friends next to everyone and doesn't mind being prodded or poked. Have you ever seen one of those films, or cartoon, where the little Victorian girl has a cat that she dresses up in bonnets and puts within tiny cradles with lacy bedding? That would be Archie!
Molly is abit timid. She doesn't growl or hiss, but she tries to wiggle away and her eyes step wide. I feel so sorry for her, she's really scared.
Willow.. ah immediately, my princess Willow.. the little bugger. She loves the vets. She loves the attention. She goes there, and act all pathetic on the table lying down, and looking up with her big eyes. When she's prodded, she make these silly little squeaking noises as if to voice 'Oh Doctor, woe is me, whatever is wrong??' When we got her done, she was such a rebellious girl afterwards. Even the actual *vet* called Willow a.. DRAMA QUEEN! Yep. Willow is known at the vets in a minute, for being a drama queen and milking it completely. She rolls, looks sorry for herself, cries, woos and melts the nurses with her big eyes and purrs when she is petted..
Little does Willow know that I SAW her running up those stairs to drop on the warm bed, the time when Willow was apparently 'Oh so dreadfully ill' (weeks after her spaying.. WEEKS!) when she be in the room with me.. unable to move.. need so many hugs and TLC.. finely cut chicken brought to her on her special little plate..
(Oh of course, we love her so much we humour her ;D)
3 of mine do actually.
Purgatory, capably he hisses, growls and tries to bite.
Princess just growls
Damn-it hisses and growls
BeBe's usually good almost it. He likes the attention lol
no, but my cat ace will snap out and hide under any object he can find.
sometimes he will yell.
my cat jet kinda just takes it.
sometimes he will growl at his brother haha
My Cat, Bianca, A Siamese, 1 Year Old, Always Hisses And Moans At The Vet. The Vet Even Has To Send Her Home As Quickly As Possible Even Though She Has No Claws!
Yup, one of mine used to be really repulsive to the vet. The vet told us that most cats are born mellow but about 1o% are just born mean. We get one of those for sure. I had four total, the other three were wonderful, comfortable going, loving etc, but this one is just plain nuts.
As long as he is nice at home it's all that things. He is just stressed out at the vets and probably has also intellectual that he gets an ouchie whenever he goes there.
Good luck.
No, but whether you put me on a cold metal table and a stranger started poking me, I'd hiss too!
I own one that hisses at thin air for no apparent function. I don't even have to be at the vets office...she does it at domestic too. The vet seems to think it is just a bit bit of schizophrenia. She wanted to put her on meds if it got any worse...so far I hold come to familiarize it as normal. I guess it just depends on the cat. She is in reality a very active and loving cat, no signs of any health conditions...only just now and then hisses. I don't see a reason to furnish her meds...we all have our days. If she gets worse...after maybe I will consider it...but until then I think its she'll basically have to hiss and get it out of her tiny little system.
