At their last checkup, my vet noted that both of my bengals had some redness and inflamation on their gums, and they suggested they get a dental cleaning. I agreed, so now the day I've been dreading has come. I had to drop the bengals off by 7:30am at the vets, so that meant waking up at 5:30am (after not getting home until 11pm last night from a late film school session) to try to wrangle them into the cat carriers. Serafina has always been the problem one. I've gotten pretty scratched up in the past trying to get her into the carrier, and she is kind of notorious at the vets for "not cooperating" (the vet techs are actually kind of scared of her).
The last time the vet gave me a sedative, and it took me about an hour to administer it to her. I tried all types of things, and finally settled on grinding the pill up, mushing the powder on my finger, and "painting" her tongue with my finger. Not this time though, that trick only works once apparently, and once she learned of my intentions, she would have none of it. I finally had to resort to putting on several layers of clothing, plus gloves, put the cat carrier on it's side (with the opening facing up) and dropping her into it with great difficulty. *whew* I thought. Now for the "easy" one... Gaga. Omg, what I didn't expect was how SHE would react. She always been easy. She squirms, and whines a bit, and that's usually it. This time she was PISSED. She's bigger and stronger than Serafina, and resisted really hard, and growled at me in a very menacing voice. Then threw a fit when I finally got her into her carrier, doing sort of a combination of growling/howling/crying. Owch, I didn't see THAT coming.
Anyway, they are at the vets now, and I'm feeling terrible about the whole thing, and nervous that everything will go ok, and that they'll forgive me when they get back