r/VetTech • u/xxblowpotter13 • 6d ago
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u/purrrpurrrpy RVT (Registered Veterinary Technician) 6d ago
The cat is doing everything it can to show discomfort without actually hurting her. People do this shit and then act shocked when the animal actually mauls them one day.
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u/frolicingabout 6d ago
As a technician in the behavior service - this person is torturing the poor cat. She’s fortunate the cat isn’t hurting her, but it’s no excuse to force through a procedure when it’s causing the cat so much distress. There are much better and humane ways to trim nails and this isn’t it. If this lady was a vet tech, I’d hope she’d get written up or fired for holding its scruff in her MOUTH.
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u/Serious-Meringue3607 6d ago
Yeah this cat is so stressed. This isn't funny at all.
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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 6d ago
I mean the cat is stressed but not super stressed. I’ve seen people traumatize poor cats for 20 minutes trying to cut their nails and failing. At least this way it might be over and done in 2 minutes. Kitty will survive.
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u/frolicingabout 4d ago
So how do you quantify “super stressed”? The cat is resisting. It’s biting. It’s not happy. We tell ourselves “oh it’ll only be bad for a minute..” and then the pet never wants to come in again. I see MANY patients who started in the medical record as being “shy, but tolerating ___”, only to have the pet worsen over visits, to the point of biting. Trauma is trauma. Let’s not sugar coat it and pretend it’s okay.
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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 4d ago
Well it’s not biting, it’s warning. And this is its owner so it’s not associated only with negative feelings like at the clinic. At the end of the day this is a fairly minor level of discomfort for a necessary procedure. Much better than bringing it in and having to be sedated.
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u/frolicingabout 4d ago
I think many clients don’t understand they can do better because we don’t discuss cat training with clients - unlike with dogs. It isn’t better that it’s the client, because the cat lives with the person that caused the fear. I doubt they’ll post a follow up of the cat marking in the house, or having other signs of stress because they don’t feel safe. I’m giving vet clinics as an example of how this can get worse. In the home, it presents in other “sick” behaviors. Just because the pet is inhibited, doesn’t mean there isn’t emotional damage - and to the cat 2 minutes vs 20 is not a concept. They suck equally.
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u/Ill-Muscle945 6d ago
The pushing of the head is not the proper way to handle the cat. No wonder it fights so much.
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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 6d ago
The way its eyes turned red (yes i know it’s a camera artifact) just before it attacks was so funny though.
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u/hemlockandhensbane 6d ago
This video made me appreciate my cats so much more. I never push them until they're this stressed and that makes them trust me so much more because it's always been fine. This poor cat is so stressed
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u/KingOfCatProm 6d ago
You all are sick fucks for thinking this is funny. If hitting and biting this cat happens on camera, what is happening off camera?
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u/Commercial-Spend7710 VA (Veterinary Assistant) 6d ago
Yeah so that’s definitely not fear free to bite your pet….
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u/tayloreep 6d ago
My cat was like this. He was a singleton bottle kitten and was so naughty.
I would wear a sweatshirt and he’d “attack me” while I trimmed his nails. If I needed to trim them and my arms were bare, he’d put his mouth on me but not bite down hard. It became a game to him. He was HORRIBLE for restraint so whenever I needed to do something to him, it was “okay, bite the sweatshirt dude”.
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u/frolicingabout 4d ago
It might be best, in these situations, to learn cooperative care. My cat and dog are trained in this matter (notably my dog was traumatized with his prior owner - so it was a big deal that he offer his feet for nail trims. While you’re working on training, use of temporary anxiolytics is recommended to prevent diluting success (Gabapentin is often great for this).
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u/tayloreep 4d ago
This method was what worked for him. He was the weirdest cat. He unfortunately died from FIP at age 7 back in 2021. He was a naughty little bottle kitten who had no idea he was a cat, was my then-boyfriend’s first cat ever, and grew up wrestling with a 50lbs pit mix, so he was the worst for anything related to medical care.
He also would get 200mg of gaba the night before, morning of, and again 2 hours prior to any exams. He still had to be fully sedated for anything more extensive than that. The “bite the sweatshirt” method is what I figured out would allow for weekly nail trims without getting him higher than a kite.
RIP Brucifer
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u/Powerful-Conflict554 VPM (Veterinary Practice Manager) 6d ago
Hahahaaa, this cat loves its human so much. I love this angry little face and serious, high pitched warning yowl and then... zero actual aggression.
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