Congrats on becoming adopted!
Tache looks cute!
I think I've come up with a wonderful idea to fool Tache into caging himself.
Another congrats! Well done. Must be the teacher in you. You know something about the process of learning, and it applies to cats as well as to kids
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Hope the corralling will go smoothly tomorrow! For the next trip to the vet, why not trying the same method? Feeding him closer and closer to the cage, then halfways in the cage, then fully in it. Would be best if you had enough time to NOT close the door behind him, but feed him inside the cage a few times
without catching him. That would give him time to lose his supiciousness towards the thingie.
Try anything to make the cage attractive when he's afraid of it after the vet tomorrow. Apply a little paté at the entrance or on the bottom inside the cage (if it's a plastic cage), so he can lick it. Place a piece of fish filet inside it. Fish smells so extreme, wonder how long he could resist the smell?
In general: if you only use the cage when another trip to the vet comes up, he'll soon enough know it. If you sometimes use the cage without a reason, just like that, and additionally make it attractive, you have better chances.
--- Ooops --- I just see that the cage belongs to your neighbour. So my ideas are moot.
Hm. Cat cages don't cost much. Maybe you're inclined to buy one?