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Over the years I've tried those ideas. The only one of them that really worked for me was putting the cat in backwards....but with the box/carrier standing up so I was doing something more akin to dropping the cat down in the box.

The 2 things that ended up working for me were this:
1. just taking the cat without a carrier as the carrier tended to scare the crap out of them more than the Vet did.
3. an ex- decided to leash-train my two boys. He did some research and ended up buying dog harnesses because all the cat leashes available at the time (and in our location) tended to choke the cats whereas a dog harness grabs around the shoulders and chest. Once the cats were trained to walk on the leash, I never had a problem getting them to the Vet or anywhere else I wanted to take them.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Sun 27 Apr 2008, 23:23, Reply)