How To Deactivate A Cat

If someone did that to my cat (if I had a cat, that is), I'd punch their f***ing face in.

You better kill your cat's mother then.

(If you had a cat, of course.)

Obviously its not hurting the cat. You usually use you hand to crab a cat the same way when you want to immobilize it for some reason. The binder clip just lets you the freedom to use both hands to work on the cat. Going to try this with mine next time I need to trim its nails. Mine really don't like their feet touched in any way.

Not hurting the cat? Put a binder clip on sine if tour loose skin and see how much it doesn't hurt.

Yeah....it also deactivates toes.

Not something you'd do just for kicks, but look at it from the vet's point of view. This is an alternative to a long drawn-out fight with a cat who doesn't want to be examined or take medicine, which could result in injured people, spilled medicine, and a overly-traumatized cat.

There's considerably more pressure from one of those clips than there is from your hand, or from the mother's mouth.

That's unnecessary. I wouldn't go to a vet who did this.

"There's considerably more pressure from one of those clips than there is from your hand, or from the mother's mouth"

not true. you just think there is because it's your hand. you have to grab it pretty hard on the neck to pick it up.

the cat is fine. the pressure just makes him think he needs to chill out...

"Not hurting the cat? Put a binder clip on sine if tour loose skin and see how much it doesn't hurt."

Cat human. And it's not a small bit of skin being pinched, it's a large flap of loose skin used by mother cats to bite and carry around kittens. If you take a large binder clip and clip it to a large flap of flabby flesh, it DOESN'T really hurt.

Pfft, that's not hurting the cat at all. If it was, the cat would've started to mewl or would've certainly freaked out a lot more when the clip was taken off.

I still wouldn't do it, and I wouldn't take any cat to a vet that did it. I've never seen a vet resort to grabbing a cat by the neck to calm it down, although I have done it on occasion.

I would recommend against picking up an adult cat in that manner.

That only demonstrated TEMPORARY deactivation. You are supposed to attach a strong clip to its throat.

Bucket.
Water.

Problem solved.

Oh, vonskippy. You can't solve all your problems with a bucket of water. Sometimes you need a sack, too.

Those of you who wouldn't go to a vet who does this need to either educate yourselves better, or trust those who are educated better (i.e. the vet). The veterinary magazine DVM360 reported on this method (called "clipnosis"), and says "No cats exhibited physical changes or behavior suggestive of pain or stress." Many cats are too stressed by being in a strange situation to tolerate being examined, having their nails trimmed, or getting blood drawn. This is safer for the people working on your cat and LESS stressful for your cat. Win-win.

Also @ted, you shouldn't pick up an adult cat that way, but having them just lie on the table like that is fine. Picking them up puts all their body weight against the clip and could result in their skin separating from the connective tissue underneath.

Sorry for the triple post, I forgot to cite my source: http://veterinarymedicine.dvm360.com/vetmed/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/650761

Step 1) Post any sort of animal video on Neatorama.
Step 2) Have people claim it's crazy animal abuse.

I wonder if this works on Toddlers.

Ashley, I don't need to educate myself. I've had vets who can simply soothe a nervous cat with very little effort, and without having to resort to what I consider extreme measures. I'm not saying that it's crazy animal abuse - I just wouldn't subject any cat of mine to a vet who practised this method. As I said before, it's unnecessary.

houndogg referred to picking up the cat, so I addressed the fact that it would be a really bad idea to pick up an adult cat by the neck.