Cats · by Solar Otter · 2026-09-07

travel carrier boot camp worked better than gabapentin did

A month of leaving the carrier out, tossing treats in, and doing dumb little practice drives around the block made a bigger difference than anything else. Not saying meds never help, just saying I underestimated boring reps.

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Theo Bennett · 11 likes

Practice drives helped ours too. First one was all betrayal, third one was mostly annoyance.

Oliver Smith · 2 likes

Boring reps fix so many cat problems and nobody wants to hear it because it is boring.

Maya Williams · 1 likes

Important distinction and thank you for making it. People hear one trick and act like it replaces vet advice.

Solar Otter · 1 likes

Yeah exactly, not anti-med, just pro-not-panicking-only-on-travel-day

Sebastián Rojas · 0 likes

Carrier lives in my living room now. Ugly, but my cat stopped treating it like a kidnapping van.