I was just going to mention them. I put Junie's pills in them and she loves them. Loki is so jealous that she gets good-smelling things like that, that I may let him have just the pockets.
(I've seen that bit before and it always amuses me!)
"Finally, all patience with and compasion for cat utterly exhausted, throw pill into cat's food bowl, where it sits forlornly on top of the stale remains of cat's dinner... for all of 20 seconds. Watch incredulously as cat calmly saunters over to bowl and eats pill with apparent relish, while ignoring the leftover food, before turning to you with an expresion of 'well come on, where's my next one, then?'"
After that, we ignored all the vet's well-meaning advice and just dropped the pill on top her dinner each day. Result: 100% success rate. =:o}
If only that were true. I can mix a pill throughly into canned food and they will everything but the pill. if I crush the pill in the food, they won't eat it at all.
My cat managed to get the pill out of the greenie. I still haven't figured out how. It appears that he ate around it and left the pill.
What we found that works in our household (my guess is that it varies from cat to cat and owner to owner!) is to use the cat piller. When we and/or the cat's not used to it (so when it's not the cat we used to pill daily), we do it as a two person team, one person holds, the other person forces open the mouth and shoots it in, but it seems to work better than mouthing it in.
I had that happen the first couple times I tried to give Junie her pills in the pill pockets. I realised that I wasn't really covering the pill very well by using the instructions (pinch the open end) and started pinching the open end and then rolling it between my palms so it's a sphere with no openings or cracks. She can't taste the pill and just eats it with the rest.
Does the worm medicine come in liquid? I have to give Pumpkin medicine every other day. It is liquid. They give me a syringe, I suck up the dose into the syringe walk up behind her open her jaw and squirt it in. Works everytime. See if your vet has liquid.
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(I've seen that bit before and it always amuses me!)
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Growling kitties freak me out completely.
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"Finally, all patience with and compasion for cat utterly exhausted, throw pill into cat's food bowl, where it sits forlornly on top of the stale remains of cat's dinner... for all of 20 seconds. Watch incredulously as cat calmly saunters over to bowl and eats pill with apparent relish, while ignoring the leftover food, before turning to you with an expresion of 'well come on, where's my next one, then?'"
After that, we ignored all the vet's well-meaning advice and just dropped the pill on top her dinner each day. Result: 100% success rate. =:o}
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Also, re the hand: OUCH! ={:o{
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What we found that works in our household (my guess is that it varies from cat to cat and owner to owner!) is to use the cat piller. When we and/or the cat's not used to it (so when it's not the cat we used to pill daily), we do it as a two person team, one person holds, the other person forces open the mouth and shoots it in, but it seems to work better than mouthing it in.
http://www.thecatconnection.com/cat/Pet-Piller.html
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