VIAJES sin estrés en COCHE con GATOS 😻🚗 | ¡Querrá entrar siempre a su transportín!

Jose, have you got Todoro ready? Do you have him properly secured? Yes, yes. I.

Always have to explain everything to him.

Hello, I'm Carlos, a clinical veterinarian at Small Animals. Welcome to the Happy Pets and Families Channel. Totoro. Do you like the carrier? This is the typical question that you ask any veterinarian and that you've asked me a lot on YouTube, Facebook and our social networks. The truth is that the problem with the carrier and cats is something that is very common, but it doesn't have to be that way. For example, Nilou, my family cat, my parents cat, gets into the carrier by himself, of his own free will. And it's not because he's a very good cat. Quite the opposite. He's not good at all. But if you want to know how we've made Meelou love the carrier, I'll tell you at the end of the video. By keeping people there.

Well, let them watch the whole video at least. The first thing you need to think about when using a carrier for your cat is that you need to plan ahead for the moment when you put your cat in the carrier. You can't just open the carrier, put your cat in it as if you were putting it in an isolation cage, and then let's go out the door and take it who knows where, because your cat doesn't know where it's going. The most important thing is that you always plan to spend a couple of days before you use the carrier. So your cat has to get used to the box that they usually use to leave the house and go to the vet or get in the car, which they also don't like at all. Therefore, you're going to have to do some prior actions to prepare for your cat's trip in the carrier. The first thing I recommend you do is take the carrier out of wherever you have it, whether it's in the back of the basement or on top of a closet. Once you've located it, clean it properly. How do you do that? Well, with a little warm water and neutral soap, which has no scent or perfume, so that your cat doesn't feel anything strange. And give the carrier a good scrub. Not because you have it very, very dirty, but because your cat's pheromones from the last time it was used have probably concentrated inside the carrier. And those pheromones are not pleasant and calming pheromones, as I have sometimes told you, but quite the opposite. They are stress pheromones. Therefore, when you put your cat back in a carrier that you have not previously cleaned. Your cat will feel all the stress that it suffered the last time and will start to feel nervous, which is not good for taking on any type of trip. In the car, Cynthia and Bianca are getting ready for a trip with Totoro. The first thing they are doing is cleaning the entire carrier with a damp cloth to eliminate all those pheromones. The next step you need to take is to put a mat or some type of cushion inside the carrier to make your cat comfortable. If your cat is inside and is not comfortable, it will be impossible for them to travel in complete peace. That blanket that Cynthia is using smells like Totoro because it is the one that Totoro normally uses to fall asleep. Totoro's calming pheromones are impregnated in that blanket and will help him to be much calmer in the transportation. I recommend that you cover these types of mats with some type of absorbent material in case your cat leaks a little pee or if he gets carsick and vomits. This absorbent material should be able to retain all that liquid and prevent your cat from being surrounded by all that which will ultimately make him feel extremely uncomfortable. One very important piece of advice is that you do not wait to set up the carrier until the day you are going to leave on your trip. The carrier must be set up at home at least four or five days before you leave on your trip so that your cat gradually perceives this element as something that is not strange, so that it can go in and out of the carrier, perhaps playing inside it a little. If it is part of the normal elements that are in its home, it will not recognize it as an enemy. To help your cat interact a little with the carrier and gain some interest in entering it. What you can do is put some wet food inside something that it does not normally eat and that really catches its attention. Or you can also spray it with synthetic feline facial pheromones because that will greatly help it not perceive it as something strange and is something that could harm it. Additionally, if your cat responds appropriately to catnip, is interested in it, feels a bit relaxed when trying it, and so on. You can also use catnip toys inside the carrier so that it can explore it, and in this way it will go in and out and see that the carrier will not harm it at all. All of this is part of the preparations that you have to make in the days before taking the trip or transporting your cat. Now, the day you are going to use the carrier either to go on A trip, or to take your cat to the vet. You have to prepare the car a bit, because when your cat gets in the car, it may start to smell strange odors. The typical smell of a closed car, the upholstery, the plastic. All of these odors are not present in its daily life. They are not present in your home, and it is possible that it does not like them. Therefore, I recommend that you do what Cynthia does. Before putting your cat in the car, you should open the doors, ventilate the car well, lower the windows a little to freshen the air inside the car, and spray some synthetic feline facial pheromones inside your car. You know your cat better than anyone, and you know whether he likes to look out the window, for example, and be aware of what's happening in the outside world. There are basically two ways to transport a cat in a carrier. One is with the carrier uncovered so that your cat can observe everything that happens around him. And the other is with the carrier covered with a blanket so that your cat can concentrate inside his cave of tranquility and nothing bothers him. In this case, Cynthia has chosen to carry your cat without a blanket, since he likes to keep an eye on everything through the little cracks in the carrier. But when you're placing the carrier in the car, you may have a question. Where do you put him in the front seat? In the back seat? On the floor. The carrier is an item that can move around inside the car, and that will make your cat very, very nervous. If your cat likes to look out the window, you have to place the carrier on the seat and secure it very well with the seat belt. Another option is to place the carrier on the floor of the car. This is a great option for cats that don't like looking out the window. In addition, the floor of the car is the safest place for you to place the carrier because it's where it will move the least. And in the event that you have to make an emergency stop and the car gets stuck, it's also where the cat will suffer the least damage. On the other hand, if you're traveling with someone in the car, it's recommended that the other person go with the cat to help the cat if needed. Also, if the cat senses that a member of its family is with it, it will feel much safer inside the car. If, instead of going to the vet, you're going to take a longer road trip that will take you more than an hour, I recommend that you stop every hour or every hour and a half at the Most to check that your cat is okay. Also, during these stops, I recommend that you take the carrier out of the car so that all the air in the car can be renewed and so that your cat can feel a little more freedom and not just confined to such a small space. But you should also take it out of the carrier, right? No, I don't recommend that you take it out of the carrier because it can be dangerous. First, because if you take it out and you're outside, the cat could escape. And second, if you take it out of the car, it's possible that you'll have a lot of trouble putting it back in the carrier later. Unless it's absolutely essential, don't open the door of the carrier to avoid accidents or your cat escaping. Totoro. Have you heard? No. You're never going to let your cat run loose in the car again. You're giving me a hard time. When you're on a longer trip and your cat gets carsick, many of you worry about how to prevent it from vomiting. In addition to the medications that the vet can give your cat to prevent nausea or vomiting when you're transporting it in the car, you can do a few things to help it so that it doesn't feel sick. One of them is to prevent it from eating in the hours before you're going to leave the house. You can also reduce the amount of water it drinks a little. Not as much as the food, because obviously your cat needs to drink, but you'll have to give it small amounts of water to prevent its stomach from being too full and the movement of the car making it dizzy and causing it to vomit.

How many hours before? Well, about four or five hours beforehand, you can take away the food and the water. Well, about an hour before leaving the house, it's okay to take it away. And now I'm going to give you the ultimate tip to make your cat love the carrier. And it's the one that has helped us with Milou so that he doesn't see the carrier as a torture chamber where he's only going to have a bad time. My parents use the carrier not only to take Milo to the vet, but they also take him to the village house, a place where he has a great time. Because it has lots of nooks and crannies. He loves exploring every corner of the house. So when my parents set up the carrier for Milo and open the door for him, he gets inside the carrier willingly because he always thinks that he's going to have a great time. For two or three days at the village house. Another advantage for Milou to love the carrier is that he uses it in the village house as his rest area. Not because my parents put him in and close the door, but because he has his own little mattress inside where he feels comfortable and cozy. And that's the advice you have to take note of. And you only have to use the carrier to take your cat to the vet. Because if you only put it in front to put your cat in and take it to a strange place where they are going to give it two or three injections and then return home, it is normal for your cat to really hate the carrier. If you, on the other hand, use the carrier to take your cat for a walk to a house or someplace where it likes to be, or it has the carrier available at home as another play area or a rest area, your cat will not only associate the carrier with negative stimuli, and in that way you will make it always want to get inside. Use it so that your cat feels comfortable inside it and you will see how everything changes. Well, now that you have it clear, is Totoro safe inside the car?

Yes, I think so.

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Yes. And now all Argentines know how to dance tango, and all Spanish people like.

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Oysters. Sorry, I can't control it. It's just that the distances are very different if I look through the camera. And today we're going to send greetings to Peru, where I know that many of you see us there in the video. I'm going to give you some clues and at the end I'm going to tell you that I know that you see us a lot. Since I know that you see us a lot from there are many.

That I know that you see us a lot from there. It doesn't sound good. Of course, I can't vocalize. My mouth is already sore. Here another thing that you also have. There are many of you followers there. There are many of our Peruvian followers. There are many of you who watch us from there.

Come on, I'll accept it again.

Stephanie Garcia. Uh, we haven't greeted Peru. What I'm reading here sounds very familiar to me. If you're going to make me look bad now in the outtakes that I can see coming. No, don't put it.