I spent 4 hours burying my cat
It's easier if you can get it into a burlap sack...keeps the struggling and the clawing down.
Slightly OT, but I found out recently the source of the phrase "The cat is out of the bag". It turns out, at one time in the UK, it was common for unscrupulous butchers who were selling live suckling pigs to swap a stray cat into the bag in place of the pig. Purchaser would get home and "let the cat out of the bag", and the rouse would be up. lol