Lovely vet seeks placid cats

[fivemack]

A friend of mine is a final-year vet student in Cambridge with a project about using ultrasound to locate blood vessels in the skin of cats.

If you're a Cambridge person with a 'normal, healthy, good-tempered' cat that would be happy with

The ultrasounding is entirely non-invasive, it just involves the cat 
sitting on a table for a while and having an ultrasound probe placed 
against their shoulder and their stomach. The fur has to be wetted slightly 
with ultrasound gel. It would take no longer than half an hour, but we 
would stop sooner if the cat started to get agitated.

then get in touch with me (comment here or email) and I'll put you in touch with Faye.

Comments

[herring-le-chat.livejournal.com]

I volunteer! I am very well-behaved :-)

[atreic.livejournal.com]

I'm not washing you if you get covered in gel. And you don't have any blood vessels :-p

[herring-le-chat.livejournal.com]

Now you're just being mean :-(

*sits on your head*

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for your helpful suggestion, which I will take in the spirit in which it is intended.

[herring-le-chat.livejournal.com]

Yay :-)

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Ha! I think this is called "laboratory conditions". Said student should *have* to use my cat, who has to be held down by three people and still manages to sink her teeth in the vet's tender parts,

[woodpijn.livejournal.com]

We might be able to help. We have two cats, one good-natured and one extremely good-natured, who put up with the pokings and proddings of a toddler. They would probably be fine with the gel and probe, but I'm not sure if they'd sit still for half an hour without getting bored, unless they went to sleep.
Where would it involve bringing them?

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

Those sound like marvellous cats. Faye is willing to pick up and return the cats within the Cambridge area; probably easiest if you mail me at fivemack@gmail.com and I'll put you in touch with her directly.