I always feel so frustrated and hopeless when I take the cats to the vets and watch their utter panic. When they’re home they always so friendly, happy and easy going but at the vets, forget it. All the foreign sounds and smells, plus having been corralled into their cages and taken in the car, just places them in this harried state. Even though this has happened with them, every year that I bring them in for their check-up, this is the first time that one of them was so frightened that the doctor couldn’t get anything done.

I’ve got to do something about this.