Comments on: Helpful Cat Medication Delivery Techniques http://evercats.com/cat-tips-and-advice/helpful-cat-medication-delivery-techniques/ Home of the best cats ever Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:11:26 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: cmerry http://evercats.com/cat-tips-and-advice/helpful-cat-medication-delivery-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-300 cmerry Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:43:07 +0000 http://evercats.com/?p=1263#comment-300 I have four rescue kitties tho they believe I am the one they rescued :) I have one kitty who needs three different kinds of drops and he will not put up with a dropper in his mouth and in fact when we had tried became upset and afraid at us and that wasn't going to happen. Our solution was to create a "bowl" out of a wet food spoonful and pool the drops in the food and he licks it all up! We even just test out what foods he likes the best and its become a treat, and he gets his medicines. The other kitties get to enjoy a spoonful of wet food treat too and our poodle also a rescue loves to try and steal some. He also gets 2 pills and drops and a powder vitamin (he is 16!) and they all get this together so no one feels like they are not special and meds get taken and its all good :) .-= cmerry´s last blog ..<a href="http://happylolday.blogspot.com/2009/09/coming-to-life-103.html" rel="nofollow">Coming to Life 103</a> =-. I have four rescue kitties tho they believe I am the one they rescued :) I have one kitty who needs three different kinds of drops and he will not put up with a dropper in his mouth and in fact when we had tried became upset and afraid at us and that wasn't going to happen. Our solution was to create a "bowl" out of a wet food spoonful and pool the drops in the food and he licks it all up! We even just test out what foods he likes the best and its become a treat, and he gets his medicines. The other kitties get to enjoy a spoonful of wet food treat too and our poodle also a rescue loves to try and steal some. He also gets 2 pills and drops and a powder vitamin (he is 16!) and they all get this together so no one feels like they are not special and meds get taken and its all good :)
.-= cmerry´s last blog ..Coming to Life 103 =-.

]]> By: Donna M. http://evercats.com/cat-tips-and-advice/helpful-cat-medication-delivery-techniques/comment-page-1/#comment-299 Donna M. Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:15:32 +0000 http://evercats.com/?p=1263#comment-299 A long time ago, I found a very useful piece of advice on a USENET group, rec.pets.cats. If you have to pill a cat, it helps to get some empty gelatin capsules to stick the pill into first. It helps prevent the cat from tasting the pill, and it keeps the pill from dissolving if Kitty is patient enough to hold it in her mouth and spit it out later. That can make the difference between being able to re-use the pill and wasting a dose of medicine. On that score, I have learned to hang onto the cat I'm pilling until she licks her nose. Then I know that the pill has been swallowed. Skipping this step invariably results in my finding a spat-out pill on the floor somewhere later. A long time ago, I found a very useful piece of advice on a USENET group, rec.pets.cats.

If you have to pill a cat, it helps to get some empty gelatin capsules to stick the pill into first. It helps prevent the cat from tasting the pill, and it keeps the pill from dissolving if Kitty is patient enough to hold it in her mouth and spit it out later. That can make the difference between being able to re-use the pill and wasting a dose of medicine.

On that score, I have learned to hang onto the cat I'm pilling until she licks her nose. Then I know that the pill has been swallowed. Skipping this step invariably results in my finding a spat-out pill on the floor somewhere later.

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