I thought seafood flavor would be better than the “chicken marshmallow” they gave him last time. He’s letting me know how entirely wrong I was in that choice.
To be fair, it smells awful. I’d probably make the same face.
I thought seafood flavor would be better than the “chicken marshmallow” they gave him last time. He’s letting me know how entirely wrong I was in that choice.
To be fair, it smells awful. I’d probably make the same face.
Ugh cat medicine is the worst
I adopted shock and awe tactics to minimize trauma to our cat. She hates meds, but if you get really fast you can pill her or give her one of those liquid syringes before she even gets mad.
I had a cat that could not be pilled. You could push that pill down that cat’s throat elbow deep and he’d still spit it out. I had this conversation with more than one vet:
“Do you have that medicine in liquid form? You can’t pill this cat.”
“Oh sure you can, you just have to do it right.”
“Okay, demonstrate if you please. Give him a dose and show me how it’s done.”
“ugh, okay.” fails to pill the cat “…Huh. Well…”
“Do you have that medicine in liquid form?”
Yeah, if you let he know you’re going to pill her she makes herself foam at the mouth so you can’t give her the pill.
Liquid form is better, and with practice you can be pretty fast.
With pills even if we do get her to take it then she starts avoiding us and it just sucks for everyone.
My ancient kitty expects treats at bedtime, so I have tried to teach her she gets a pill then treats at bedtime. She doesn’t run away because she knows treats are coming, but she’ll try to spit the pill out if I don’t manage to drop it right where her tongue meets her throat.
She can get this one in liquid form to mix into liquid treats, but then the rest of my zoo gets jealous and I can’t have that xD
Pliny and Taco Bob are both getting up there in age. The problem with Pliny is that he isn’t food motivated. I can sometimes give him churu treats, but he mainly just wants to be pet and loved.
I hate that he starts to associate me with “cat torture time” after he’s been on the meds for a few weeks. Wish I could bribe him with treats.
Cats have better clocks than we give them credit for. If part of petting and loving is brushing, it might help to start brushing him at a given time every day before moving to meds and brushing. My kitty is 15 now, but the addition of meds to bed routine started maybe a year and a half ago.
She is currently pawing and sighing at me because I hyper fixated and missed her usual bedtime xD
My mother’s cat is medicated twice a day. They tried to convince us pills were the only way. We found no, there’s medicated ear cream. At the time this meant going to an uncommon compound pharmacy, getting it mixed there, and creaming up her ears. These days, you just order that shit online.
Cats been getting her ears medicated for years now and is way calmer about that.
Well calm for a cat.
Yeah that same cat I was talking about needed thyroid medication that was given to him by ear cream. Compounding pharmacy liked to underdose him by a factor of 10 though; we got at least two batches of that medicine that was something like .01mg when it was supposed to be .1mg. Which was…great.
Oh, the compounding pharmacy we use to use before the internet just hated the fact it was medicine for a cat. He (the pharmacist) liked to complain about how taking time to make this medicine took away time from making more important medicine.
It was not a busy pharmacy. He could take the time to make fucking cat medicine.
Ear cream was the salvation of my relationship with our old cat.
The last time I had to do this for an extended period, he’d start gagging when I got home from work. I wasn’t even on him yet, but he starts associating antibiotic time with me. I feel bad. I just wanna be the chill dude who pets him.