Comments on: Cat update

By: nico

nico — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:02:19 +0000

stick some butter on the pill and should go down the throat easy plus the cat sort of enjoys the aftermath of licking the butter that is missed in the mouth

By: cat, school | rich text - Rich Lafferty’s weblog

cat, school | rich text - Rich Lafferty’s weblog — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 17:32:42 +0000

[…] I heard back from the vet yesterday: Mouse’s last bloodwork all came back normal, so we have ourselves a healthy cat. The elevated white blood cell count was […]

By: Rich

Rich — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 12:02:56 +0000

The vet suggested pill pockets, but Mouseycat has never liked cat treats — she’s always had eating issues, and she doesn’t trust food that isn’t cat food in a cat bowl. I can’t even give her cheese or tuna.

We had been feeding her kitten food to get her weight back up a bit, and one day after far too many tries to get the pill in her (some days are good, some aren’t!) we ended up just dissolving it in water and mixing that in with the kitten food — and now she won’t touch unadulterated kitten food either! Luckily she’ll be fine on adult food from here on anyhow.

By: Sensitive_one

Sensitive_one — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 02:11:20 +0000

oh! i’m glad the kitty is okay. i didn’t realize there was a problem.

have you heard of pill pockets? (perhaps they’ve already been discussed). i have one kitty for the life of me that i cannot get a pill down. pill pockets are treats with a hole in one side that you pop the pill in, pinch it shut and they *usually* eat the treat so fast they don’t notice. (yeah right) or if they do they’ve gotten most of it down. they can be price-y but they’ve been cheaper for me than all the blood loss and rat eye looks from mr jiggys.

best wishes to mouseycat!

By: Candice

Candice — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:50:53 +0000

Pam: We both have! And it makes us wish we had a dog instead (kinda.) :p

By: Pam

Pam — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:10:12 +0000

Have you seen how to pill a cat?