How to Give your Cat a Pill
How to Give Your Cat a Pill
First Step – slowly creep up behind your cat and pounce on them, holding them between your knees.
Second Step – grab their mouth and open it widely enough to quickly shove the pill as far back into their throats as possible, which will make it more difficult for them to expectorate it.
Third Step – quickly retrieve the pill from the ceiling, and although it will be filled with slime and cat saliva, firmly shove the pill down your cat’s throat a second time, and this time stop fooling around!
Fourth Step – attempt to locate your cat’s whereabouts, as it suddenly rushed from your grasp, horrified at your new and inexplicable behavior.
Fifth Step – call your neighbors and quietly inquire as to whether they’ve seen your cat over the past 24 hours.
Sixth Step – if your neighbors can’t help, then immediately begin scanning the upper levels of branches on trees located within a four – square block area of your home. Take particular care to notice if unseen hissing starts emanating from any trees that you’re passing under at the time; if that occurs, then you’ve definitely found your cat.
Seventh Step – Take approximately twenty cans of tuna, herring and/or sardines and gently place them under the tree where your cat is still hissing at you. Gently call up to your cat in wheedling tones, taking care to genuflect in front of their presence and promising not to ever do that kind of heinous action against them again. By the way, some bowing and scraping won’t hurt your efforts in this regard.
Eighth Step – if your cat comes down from the tree and deigns to give you a second chance, don’t be surprised if it leaves a tremendous dump on your bedroom pillow later that evening, just to make sure it got the point across.
^OK, please forgive the frivolity above. The simple truth of the matter is that the vast majority of pet advice regarding the subject of giving your cat pills involves some type of grabbing and attempting to shove a pill (or a bunch of pills) down their throats. Granted, this may work one or two times, but anyone who owns a cat knows full well that if you keep trying to get them to take their pills in that manner, they’re going to quickly figure out what you’re trying to do well in advance of your being able to complete the task at hand.
So what do you do?
When I was a child long ago, the only way we got our cats to take their medication was if we disguised them within their favorite treats or foods. Guess what? The old ways are still among the most effective methods in getting your favorite felines to take their critical medications on a daily basis.
Please take note – this advice does not include the grinding up of pills in order to mix it in with their food. This only serves to make the food taste bitter, which means that you’ll not only fail at getting their medication down, they may start to think of their food as being suddenly poisoned as well.
What if they only eat dry food, and you can’t mix the medications effectively? Fortunately, there are a number of effective pet pill pockets that work quite well for most cats. These are usually in the form of cat treats, and they have small openings in their sides that can accommodate most pills, unless they’re of the exceptionally large variety. We usually take a pill pocket made from one of our cat’s favorite regular brands of dry treats, then mush in a regular dry treat on top of the pill pocket. Works like a charm – so much so that she actually looks forward to her morning and evening treats before her main meals. Perfect!
Although pet pill pockets are another expense on top of the other things you need to take care of your cat, using them will make the entire pill – taking process a lot easier…for both you and your cat.
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