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I don’t know about all you kitties, but we hate to get into that cat carrier. So my mom has come up with a few ideas to help you get used to the idea of climbing into the carrier. We all need to feel at home in this thing that carries us around. So probably the best idea is to have the carrier around the house a lot so we can go in and out and get used to being in there. Then we will start thinking of the carrier as a safe haven.

Now if our hoomans would just feed us in them, and put our toys in there, we would probably like those scary carriers a lot better. We do know that when Mom has little feral kittens that she has to take to the vet for shots or to be spayed or neutered, she brings them in from the barn where she catches them and has the carrier standing up and then she lowers them into the carrier. But when they get in the bathroom where they go the night before the vet, they usually just stay in the carrier because that is their safe haven even with the door open.

THIS is Girl Kitty.

When all the kitties started to move in here, Girl Kitty was the wildest or we should say the scariest one of all of us. So Mom put the carrier out in the back yard where we ate when we first came, and she would put Girl kitty’s food in the carrier but right near the front and then gradually moved it back to the back of the carrier. And eventually she was able to shut the door. It took about a month. She is still the one cat that cannot be picked up but she does let Mom pat her just for a minute when she gets her food. She was hurt so badly when she was a kitten, she always limps on one hind leg. The vets believe that her joint fused so she cannot straighten it out. But we believe that she is Mom's favorite because she was the first one to arrive here.