Sore face! (OT)

Heya blackrosequilts.

In most cases, cat dander takes two weeks to build up to allergy levels. Therefore you may torture all your friends with feline QIs by requiring they bath them before you vist. :-)

A friend of mine is SCARY allergic to cat dander, but has 3 and keeps them bathed religiously.

Jenn > Cats wrote:

Only allergic if the enzyme gets "into" me (as in get bitten and enzyme gets into blood) so my furries can bath me or give me an affectionate kiss from time to time.

You have to be careful about putting it on their feet if you have more than one cat though. Back when Bear was still with us, we could give him his hairball treatment any way we wanted so long as he got it. He loved the stuff. Stripey on the other hand hates it. Nothing we can do convinces her that it is something she ought to eat. So we rub it on her front paws. Well we discovered that what she was doing for a long time was going to Bear and having him clean it off her paws. Now that Bear is gone, we thought she would be forced to lick it up herself, but now she is trying to con Thorncat into it. Thorncat is mightily confused. Most days Stripey thinks Thorncat is an abomination. I guess she thinks worse of petromalt.

NightMist

Oh, I had to giggle at this! WHAT a cheeky moglet! Dearie me! I am NOT going to let Sugar Puff read this post - she'd think it was far too good an idea!

Mind you, it was Cornflake that shook Katelax (sounds like the same sort of stuff!) off all over the place, so I was finding dried gobbets of Bovril flavoured and coloured Vaseline all over the place... IKK!

Next time I rub it in more, rather than leaving it on the surface!

On Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:17:23 -0500, monique wrote (in article ):

When I was giving katie Mae pills after her surgery for the broken leg, I learned something at the vet's office that might work for most cats. After I got the pill into her and was holding her mouth closed, they told me too shoot a little water into the back of her throat with a syringe (no needle of course). Just wedge it in there between the cat's teeth and shoot toward the back of the mouth. The cat swallows the water and the pill at the same time. Just got to keep the mouth closed long enough to get the water in. It helps a lot if you already have the water in the syringe.

Maureen

How to Give Your Cat a Pill in 10 Easy Steps

1. Sit on sofa. Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your elbow as though you were going to give a bottle to a baby. Talk softly to it.

1. With right hand, stroke cat's throat until it opens its mouth (be patient). Drop pill into mouth. Let go of cat, noticing the direction it runs.

2. Pick the pill up off the floor and go get the cat. Sit on floor in kitchen, wrap arm around cat as before, drop pill in mouth. Let go of cat, noticing the direction it runs.

1. Scoot across floor to pick up pill, and go find the cat. Bring it back into the kitchen. Hold cat as before, but hold down its front paws with forearm. Drop pill into mouth.

2. Pry claws from back legs out of your arm. Go get the cat, pick up half-dissolved pill from floor and drop it into garbage can.

1. Get new pill from bottle. Go into bathroom and get a fluffy towel. Stay in the bathroom with the cat, and close the door.

2. Sit on bathroom floor, wrap towel around kitty, leaving only his head exposed. Cradle kitty in the crook of your arm, and pick up pill off of counter.

1. Retrieve cat from top of shower door (you didn't know that cats can jump 5 feet straight up in the air, did you?), and wrap towel around it a little tighter, making sure its paws can't come out this time. With fingers at either side of its jaw, pry it open and pop pill into mouth. Quickly close mouth (his, not yours).

2. Sit on floor with cat in your lap, stroking it under the chin and talking gently to it for at least a half hour, while the pill dissolves.

1. Unwrap towel, open bathroom door. Wash off scratches in warm soapy water, comb your hair, and go find something to occupy your time for

I actually just put up photos of how I give pills to Sasha. I have a new album at webshots:

-- Jo in Scotland

Howdy!

Thanks, Jo. Very sweet of you to take so much time over this. Lucky Sasha. I've had a couple of hateful cats and a couple of crazy Siamese (aren't they all?), all had to have pills at some time; I just wrapped them in a towel, loved all over them and slipped the pill down their gullets. By the time you get your motar&pestle out, Dusty will have been dosed & kissed, eaten her treat & climbed back under the quilt. Whatever works!

Ragm> >

We do this twice a day. I've never forced Sasha to do anything. She usually does what I want by persuasion. It's a good way to go....

-- Jo in Scotland