The "Einstein can't get a cat into a carrier even though he is smarter" is just a hilariously bad argument. All cat owners can get their cats into a carrier! And most cats don't want to get in, because they hate the vet! And it's almost entirely because the humans are smarter!

You can even get a literal tiger into a carrier, even though it can kill you easily. You just drug its food and wait till it passes out. This is because you are smarter than it, and know that tranquilizers exist and how to obtain them, which is a strategy that cats of any size are not even able to conceive of, and probably can't understand what happened after it's been done to them.

Yeah the whole thing is strange. He does such a good job in the first but outlining all the reasons for caution that I was intrigued to see what he had to say against it, but it's just one bad argument after another. Even Hawking's cat is bad. Make some money and pay someone to get the cat in the box.

> You just drug its food and wait till it passes out.

Human zoo keepers are actually smarter than that. For months, they train the tiger to go into the carrier to get food. Then on transport day, they shut the door behind it. Unclear if this works for future transport situations.

I... Think you completely missed the point, which is that each and every method you enumerated is a brute-force tactic.