Apparently I needed a laugh...

[soprano1]

I don't know why this struck me so darn funny, but I've been sitting here with tears coursing down my face, in hysterical laughter, for the last several minutes reading this.  It is courtesy of my sister-in-law, and is behind a cut because it's lengthy.  I'm not sure you'll get it if you've never given a cat a pill.

Comments

[kugelblitz]

Hell Gimli eats pills if you just hand one to him. Also toilet paper rolls, hair, small utensils and rocks.

[soprano1]

Ian is fussier. He will eat his dog food if he's hungry enough. He will eat any human food, any time, anywhere. He will NOT eat a dog treat unless there's another dog around in direct competition for said treat.

In non-food items, we got him off electrical cables rather early in his life (thank goodness, or that life might have been shorter). He still prefers women's underwear and blue-tooth headsets over every other chew toy.

Pills we can give him with peanut butter. If you wrap it in bacon he unwraps the bacon, eats it, and spits out the pill.

[ginevra007]

LOL yes I've been there!

I once ordered silk from a catalog. It came with instructions.

1. Remove cat from sewing area
2. Remove cat, again, this time closing the door.
3. Remove cat, yet again, making sure that the cat is on the opposite side of said door.

I kid you not!

[soprano1]

Hee hee hee! Wise words though, especially if it's high-quality silk.

My dog used to like running off with whatever I was knitting at the time, but he's better now.

[ginevra007]

When the girls were making their bridesmaids outfits for my wedding, the lady whose house we were sewing at, her husbands cat brought us a bird and dropped it on some of the laid out silk. LOL Lucky it turned out that that piece tern out not to been needed for the garment.

[soprano1]

WAY cool... what a kitty blessing to your nuptials.

I mean, if you gotta clean up a departed beast, at least it's off silk, instead of off the neighbor's driveway, which is where Oscar usually drops off his prey.

[slightlymadmom]

Amusing! Sounds like our struggles with M (7 year old BOY), except he doesn't run, he just lays there and whines.

We found the peanut butter trick for our dog just a week before we had to put her to sleep. It would have saved us a lot of hassles earlier -- we had stopped giving her a non-diuretic pill (?) because she would leave it in the food bowl (even with wet food) and we had trouble giving it to her directly.

With my cat, I don't remember ever giving her pills, but when I had to give her shots (she was diabetic the last 2 months of her life), I would feed her wet food, and she wouldn't notice if there was a dog next to her...

[whimmydiddle]

An oldie but goodie.