
Your cat does not hate pet carrier – it’s the places you take him in there
Similarly, if your cat knows the pet carrier means a vet visit, he will undoubtedly be scared out of his pants (if he had ones) by just seeing the carrier. It’s similar like when you rattle a food bowl just to call your cat because he knows what that sound means, just in this case, it’s not that positive association.
So, it’s not the carrier he’s afraid, it’s the vet. The best way to make this fright of carrier go away is to break the link between the carrier and the vet. Let the carrier sit in an open space all the time, so your cat walks by every day, without the carrier abducting him and taking to a vet clinic. Read here to learn how to retrain your cat not to afraid of his pet carrier.