A friend sent me this picture today with this note: I’m having a hard time believing it’s for real. If it is, I’m wondering how much sedation they had to use on the model and imagining masked cats frantically reversing like insane bumper cars.
For some reason, I just can’t stop laughing, and on the list of all the things cats don’t like, laughing at them is pretty close to the top. There’s no way my cat would let me put this on her. “The instructions say: Working from behind animals head, hold side tabs and slip muzzle over face and eyes.” I think they’re missing some steps.
Look closely at the photo, which is not retouched. The handler has some obvious war wounds.
In my house, it would work like this:
Step 1: Catch and sedate cat
Step 2: Attempt to put muzzle on cat
Step 3: Release angry cat, apply Mercurochrome to bite wounds on hands
Step 4: Locate cat behind sofa, lure out with treats
Step 5: Sedate cat some more
Step 6: Attempt to put muzzle on cat again
Step 7: Release yowling cat, bandage lacerations on hands and arms
Step 8: Locate cat under bed, attempt to lure out with more treats
Step 9: Wait for cat to take the bait
Step 10: Give up on cat muzzle, and sedate self.
This may reduce cat bites, if, and when, you actually get it on the kitty, but she is certainly going to make you pay for trying.
If I tried it with my cats, I think I would die a slow, painful death. After I was too weak to move from blood loss after trying to get it on just one of them, the cats would join forces to smother me on the floor.
No way would I even THINK about trying this… Calpurnia Jean knows where I sleep! In fact, can we pretend I never even saw it?
What would you possibly need this for? And which comes first, the muzzle or the straight jacket? Because there’s no way this muzzle is getting on without restraining the arms and claws. And there’s no way a straight jacket is going on without a muzzle.
I, too, would like to erase this from my mind. Just knowing about it has put us all in danger.
You obviously have a lot of experience with cats. Vs. the person who created the cat muzzle, who was probably shredded in the testing process.
This reminds me of the time my vet told me to put plastic caps on my cats nails…and that it was really easy. I think probably my vet was trying to assasinate me via cat.
I don’t know why. I’ve always been really nice to my vet.
This made me absolutely sick…how could anyone do such a thing.
I would never, ever put this on a cat. I would, however, and with very little provocation or coaxing, put it on a child….or any member of the Palin or Kardashian family…or Jusitn Beiber…or Joe Biden at meetings…or….