Isabelle (kitten) and Scottie (dog) send their concern! Scottie's recommendation is to do like he does at the first sign of potential conflict: Get behind one of your human servants and order them to take care of the problem!!!
:-)
Erin
Hehehe... That's her big brother's approach. Unfortunately Sugar Puff, while usually the sweetest and most loving of creatures, gets her mad up if she thinks anyone is invading HER jungle, and goes to defcom 9 in a millisecond!
She swallowed her first pill this morning without protest - maybe because James (her favourite person in all the world!) held her for me. She's now out making sure the 'garden' (a mad jungle at present!) hasn't been stolen!
The good wishes are much appreciated.
Why do they make cat antibiotics so unpalettable? Hodges hairball laxitive is so tasty he loves it! DD used to hide Fred's daily heart pills in the middle of a cheese tasting treat and he would queue up for his pill!
I have always found that when we have had a male and fremale cat, the female has been the best hunter, and altogether the most efficient cat! The males, either with female or on their own have been more slob-like! (Exception is DD's current cat, Barney, Fred's brother - Fred was the slob out of those two!) Read somewhere that lionesses do most of the hunting, and that the lions prefer a free meal, only hunting when they have to.
Mia is definitely the most independent and cleverer of our two kittens
- got the body language just right so that Hodge likes her best! Kiwi just bumbles along behind her and Hodge is only just begining to accept him. He got the body language all wrong in the beginning - waved his paw at Hodge instead of giving him the required respect as senior cat.
They all send their best wishes to Sugar Puff - kittens from the garden chasing butterflies, and Hodge from his bed!
-- Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk)
Kate - my vet has these treat-thingies for pilling the critters. Look like a hollowed-out piece of sausage, lg for dogs, small for cats. Put the pill in the middle and feed like a treat. I haven't used them, but I'd guess they'd work, esp. for the dog. Maybe not so much for the cat, depending on whether the cat is used to being hand-fed treats. Worth a look-see, if SP bites when being pilled.
Only time I tried one of those she ate the treat and spat the pill out! :D Bitten fingers are the soft option with madam. She didn't bite me this morning, and didn't bite Alan this evening. I think the trick is for James to hold her.
Nothing has ever made any of my cats queue up for pills. At best they tolerate being pilled for the treats and snuggles that follow!
Yup - that about sums up the domestic mog and the king of Africa! ;)
Sugar Puff doesn't range as far and hunts smaller game than Cornflake. he's had rats, a pigeon or two, blackbirds and sparrows on the wing... All sorts! With her it's usually mice, shrews, spiders, bits of moss...
At present Cornflake is snuggled in TWO quilts on the sofa, and sugar Puff thanks you from her throne on the chair! :)
A couple of things that have worked for me in the past with various feline patients.
Butter - either hard and moulded around the pill or softened and mixed with ground up pill
Pill Popper - sounds horrible but the vet in Canberra gave me one and it was like a tiny pill holder on a stick so you could place the pill at the back of the cat's throat without risk to life and limb (well without risk to fingers at least LOL I was once hospitalised by a cat bite on the hand, although the bite was from breaking up a fight not administering a pill, and the 8 days in hospital had more to do with the utter incompetence of the doctor than the actual bite)
Nutrient - I usually keep a tube of a food supplement that I get from the vet handy now. This stuff is thick (like very thick molasses) and strong smelling and designed to encourage appetite in ailing cats. Squeeze a dot on the finger and the cats push each other out of the way to lick it off. If they get this just occasionally, when I need to give a tablet embedding it in this stuff and offering it to just the patient is relatively easy. They are so anxious to bolt it down before the others come running that I rarely get a pill spat back out at me. I am out of it ATM so I can't give you a name, and it would be different over there anyway. But I have found that the trick is to pre-convince them all that something is a special treat and that if they don't bolt it down (pill and all) the others will steal it.
Good luck with Sugar Puff (aka Ghengis Kitten)
She's not bothered by food at all: just not food motivated, except for tinned tuna! Now for THAT she'd sell her little kitty soul, but still spit the pill out!
UGH! Cat inflicted wound here get immediate anointment with hydrogen peroxide! Stings like hell but kills all known germs as dead as a very dead thing.
Most cars I've had have just swallowed the pills first time. This one, our only girl, just HAS to be different! Stuffing it in with a finger while James holds her seems to be working: it's also over very fast, so less stressful for all of us!
Thanks! :) She's being a powder puff right now - no Ghengis tendencies in sight!
>Turns out I am allergic to an enzyme in cat saliva so the bite led to more than just an infection.
However, the allergy isn't that much of a problem and I am not giving up my QIs! I figure they are just as likely to be allergic to my biteas I am to theirs', so very early in any human/feline relationship we usually strike a deal - you don't bite me and I won't bite you. Has worked OK so far.
Sounds good. Ours only bite gently as a deterrent when they have had too much attention. Mother cats do this with their kittens. More annoying is Cornflakes love of licking toes! ARRGH!
Same here. If a cat licks me I get a welt. But I'm also allergic to their dander, which is very fine and permeates the air in any house a cat lives in because walking around raises the dander dust back into the air. If I have to push a cat away, I have to wash my hands very quickly, before I touch anything else. And the evil little creatures make a beeline for me. It's a conspiracy -- they're trying to kill me. ;-)
I sure that all the squishies I send are as cat-free as possible: washed and bagged before a mog can get at them! And the critters are not allowed in the sewing room.
I am lucky - it's just cat drool I react to if I'm going to react to that
*particular* cat so I can still visit car loving friends no problems sadly I react badly to all dogs (even so called anti allergic dogs) so I have a hard time visiting family and my doggie owning friends :-(so don't worry about a few stray cat hairs - I can cope :-D
Poor Sugar Puff. Abscesses can take forever to heal. It's good that she has the antibiotic boost to her system; sometimes they can heal over on the surface before they heal underneath; that's what happened to my Biskit once. Pilling cats can be another whole adventure, though. It's definitely a 2-man job around here.
Sherry
I may have said before but the late Merlot was very fond of his pills arriving in cream soft cheese - you know the stuff that comes shaped like triangles and wrapped in foil? Break a bit off, wrap around pill and within
3 seconds cheese and pill are all gone.Touch wood haven't had to try the new ones....
We put our dog's pills on a teeny bit of peanut butter. She loves it.
Butterfly
I trained my dog from puppy on to take pills by giving her cat treats (pillshaped and yummy) she learnt to swallow them and then when I had pills I gave a cat treat, then pill the cat treat - she never caught on!
cats now.. a whole different ball game including a towel , grim determination and some sharp claws and it was my job from 12 years old onwards to pill the cats - I was the one who sustained the least damage in our family LOL
I hate giving medicine to cats! They can spit out a pill faster than a four-year-old, no matter how well you hide it.
Last time my Mir Cat had to have antibiotics (who knew cats could get acne?!), the vet gave her the same banana-flavored amoxycilin they give kids. Whose bright idea was that?! Even with two people on the job, more got on us and the furniture than into the beast.
Next time I go to a compounding pharmacy and have them put the drugs into some sort of fish-flavored paste that she can just lap up. If she'll take straight petroleum jelly right off my finger for hairballs, she'd surely go for fish-flavor!
Monique in TX
We've dealt with some SERIOUS abscesses in our time! First cat Marmalade has a very nasty bite through his ear (the fleshy bit by the front of the lobe, not the triangle) that took a while and twice daily bathing/draining, one half way down his tail (we thought he might lose it, but bathing and pills fixed it - eventually!), and a few others! Surprisingly, given her feisty temper, this is the first time Sugar Puff has sustained real damage. Cornflake is a big yellow coward, and the only person he gets in tussles with is his little sister, so he hasn't yet had a serious bite - he backs off when she starts clawing at his nose! Given his propensity for getting into trouble, this is something we are grateful for!
She nearly got rid of the pill this evening: James said Alan hadn't shoved it in far enough! Her face is almost back to normal, and other than a slight remaining swelling, a scab, and the pills, you'd never know she'd been hurt. I blame her amazing good health and speedy recovery on her healthy exercise regime, lots of fresh air, and good food - at least some of which she catches for herself! She certainly doesn't look or behave like a middle aged mog!
One of our cats used to love milk. Or even water with a few dry milk granules added to it. Great way to feed liquid amoxycillin. Little "milk" and the dropper full of meds, she was begging for it.
Pati, > I hate giving medicine to cats! They can spit out a pill faster than a
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