My best friend went to RT

[pbray]

And I get to give drugs to her cat. The vet kindly suggested that I could try liquid antibiotics rather than attempting to feed the cat pills....

Stop by twice a day and feed cat, check.
Clean & change litter box, check.
Play with cat, brush her, pet her, check.
Give drugs to cat.... well it may be priceless at the moment, but I'm pretty sure I'll be able to put a price on this one before jennifer_dunne gets home.

I was especially pleased with the vet's "Oh, and watch for vomiting" comment.

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[aeriedraconia.livejournal.com]

How To Give A Cat A Pill

Step 1. Don a complete suit of chain mail.
Step 2. Including gauntlets.
Step 3. Search for cat.
Step 4. Try to catch cat.
Step 5. Chase cat until you are both hot and sweaty.
Step 5. Nab cat out from under a large piece of furniture, which will have tipped over in the cat retrieval process.
Step 6. Hold cat
Step 7. Reach for pills.
Step 8. Chase escaped cat.
Step 9. Repeat steps 4-6.
Step 10. Take cat, held in a death grip, into the bathroom and shut the door. Sit on the closed lid of the toilet.
Step 11. Apply pressure to cat's jaw hinges until cat's mouth opens.
Step 12. Poke pill into cat's mouth QUICKLY, pushing the pill over the hump in the cat's tongue.
Step 13. Snatch fingers back and let the cat go.
Step 14. Watch cat like a hawk to see if the pill was swallowed of if cat spits it back out.
Step 15. If pill is spotted on floor, repeats steps 8 and 11-14.
Step 16. The pill stays in the cat. Comfort the offended cat (if you can catch her).
Step 17. Celebrate with lots of wine and chocolate.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Hee! That's exactly what I was afraid of.

[hundakleptisis.livejournal.com]

LOL reminds me of my last cat. Had to give it antibiotics for two weeks after it had to have its tail amputated (nasty car accident) we felt sorry for the poor thing, so every morning and night after plonking it on the table and shoving plls down its throat we rewarded it with five shrimp.

it got so used to the delicacy that after the pills ran out it jumped upon the table every morning and night for three more days... till it realized no more shrimp were coming:)

S.J.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I know dogs like that. Sadly the cat appears to be a bit smarter....

[hundakleptisis.livejournal.com]

It takes two to pill a cat alas. One to put the straight jacket on and the other to lose their fingers.

S.J.

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

I have been given my oldest ferret antiobiotics twice a day, every day, for a month. He is currently on one week off, then one week on, and this will probably continue for the rest of his life.

Ferrets, even fully grown, can be safely scruffed, which is good, because the only way to give him the drugs is to quite literally inject them down his throat. however, we are talking about a ferret, a creature that can seemingly make all bones disappear out of body at will, and flip out of my hands and flash under a bookcase in under two seconds.

(And since they have acute smell sense, trying to sneak it to them via food or treats does not work.)

I feel for you, I do.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the sympathy.

Jennifer returns in less than 72 hours. Not that I'm counting....

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

...I am sure there are not hashmarks in your calendar...not at all...

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Naw, I favor one of those ticking digital countdowns, a la 24.

By the way, so far it's Cat: 1, Inept Human: 0. (Managed to administer a partial dose before lost control of cat).

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

Really, considering cat becomes SUPER_CAT when faced with meds, give yourself some credit for giving partial dose.

Super-Cat - 1. Human - .5