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Post by Pat on May 3, 2017 8:59:44 GMT -5
Re pills: friend uses a a biggish yummy treat. Inserts the pill, and places it a few inches from food dish. Cat is fooled into thinking one of the kibbles jumped out of the bowl. Eats it! Works every time. Good luck! Cats and pills and meds are a dangerous combination as stated above.
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Post by rockjunquie on May 3, 2017 11:53:48 GMT -5
Re pills: friend uses a a biggish yummy treat. Inserts the pill, and places it a few inches from food dish. Cat is fooled into thinking one of the kibbles jumped out of the bowl. Eats it! Works every time. Good luck! Cats and pills and meds are a dangerous combination as stated above. My daughter is an animal handler, so I asked her to come over and show me how to get a cat to eat a pill. We took some yummy expensive cat pate and made a ball, stuck the pill in and offered it..... Uh, no. He wouldn't eat it from the hand so we put it on a plate. He ate all around it! What a talent! LOL! So, we ended up getting him to pop his mouth open and shoved it into the the top corner of his cheek. That seemed to work. But, he was NOT happy. Daughter got scratched pretty good. Tonight when we dose him- it will be the towel for him! But, I will try the jumping snack trick first. Thanks!
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Post by metalsmith on May 3, 2017 12:06:59 GMT -5
Cat came home last night... Now, I just have to figure out how to get his meds into him! Good luck with that Glad he's back.
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Post by youp50 on May 3, 2017 15:09:44 GMT -5
If they are capsules, empty them on his food. It may take another half of a day for him to get hungry enough, but he will not starve while figuring out if he wants to eat.
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Post by Deleted on May 3, 2017 17:23:40 GMT -5
Grab the upper jaw, palm of hand on top of head. Thumb on lip on one side, fingers on lip of other side. Roll the lips onto his teeth. Like a lever, lower jaw opens. Put pill in mouth and push with finger deep into throat. Release. Don't let cat run away until you are sure of success. Two persons job on cats. Dogs one is fine. rockjunquie
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Post by krazydiamond on May 3, 2017 17:24:22 GMT -5
I am very pleased to hear that Cat is on the road to recovery. Many years ago, I adopted a stray male adult Maine Coon Cat who developed a similar ailment. Not knowing his age, I did take him to the vet and had to give him a pill every morning. Not Fun! He enjoyed some time before the process got to the inevitable stage and I had to put him down. I think this was even before they had the special diet food. BTW, His name was Kat!
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Post by geezer on May 4, 2017 6:55:36 GMT -5
Concerning the pills, just try from the other end- He'll figure out he prefers swallowing them!
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Post by rockjunquie on May 4, 2017 7:04:34 GMT -5
Concerning the pills, just try from the other end- He'll figure out he prefers swallowing them! LOL! Yeah, that would work, but there is no way I am trying to stick something up a cat's butt! Those claws are sharp. I ended up crushing the pills and mixing it with his food. Works.
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Post by toiv0 on May 4, 2017 8:13:19 GMT -5
Concerning the pills, just try from the other end- He'll figure out he prefers swallowing them! LOL! Yeah, that would work, but there is no way I am trying to stick something up a cat's butt! Those claws are sharp. I ended up crushing the pills and mixing it with his food. Works. Reminds of the joke where the punch line is " Doc, as good as those supposotories were suppose to work I might as well have put them up my rear end". Cleaned up version.
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Post by gemfeller on May 4, 2017 12:48:22 GMT -5
I'm glad Cat is on the mend. Our male Siamese (we lost him a year ago due to a rampant tooth infection) had the same urinary issue when he was younger. Our vet bill was around 2K for his treatment but the added decade-plus of his life was worth more than that. He was a great companion and source of constant amusement, a real comedian. We miss him a lot but we're getting to know Mitch, a new friend from the local pound, who has his own comedic style.
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Post by Deleted on May 4, 2017 12:58:59 GMT -5
Grab the upper jaw, palm of hand on top of head. Thumb on lip on one side, fingers on lip of other side. Roll the lips onto his teeth. Like a lever, lower jaw opens. Put pill in mouth and push with finger deep into throat. Release. Don't let cat run away until you are sure of success. Two persons job on cats. Dogs one is fine. rockjunquieI forgot, with cats, wrap in towel to control them better.
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Post by Pat on May 4, 2017 15:51:24 GMT -5
Grab the upper jaw, palm of hand on top of head. Thumb on lip on one side, fingers on lip of other side. Roll the lips onto his teeth. Like a lever, lower jaw opens. Put pill in mouth and push with finger deep into throat. Release. Don't let cat run away until you are sure of success. Two persons job on cats. Dogs one is fine. rockjunquieI forgot, with cats, wrap in towel to control them better. .... and wear bulletproof clothing!
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Post by rockjunquie on May 4, 2017 16:02:48 GMT -5
Well everyone, he may be suffering a setback. I'll call the vet in the morning. I don't know if he is just still sore or what, but he strains to pee, isn't peeing much and he's licking a lot. He also just seems lethargic, like he doesn't feel good. His urine looks ok, though. He even used the litter box once. Then he peed on the bathroom rug- right in front of me. I couldn't believe it! I know he wasn't being bad. I think he really had to go.
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Post by rockjunquie on May 4, 2017 16:11:29 GMT -5
I'm glad Cat is on the mend. Our male Siamese (we lost him a year ago due to a rampant tooth infection) had the same urinary issue when he was younger. Our vet bill was around 2K for his treatment but the added decade-plus of his life was worth more than that. He was a great companion and source of constant amusement, a real comedian. We miss him a lot but we're getting to know Mitch, a new friend from the local pound, who has his own comedic style. I'm sorry. We had Jazz, a tortie/calico before Cat. She lived to be 25 and only had to see the vet once for an abscessed cat bite from a fight. She was a yard cat, like Cat. It seems like after they are fixed they really stick around the yard. Anyway, we had 3 at one time. 2 black cats and Jazz. Baron was our feral kitty. We got him when he was probably under 2 months. His mom was a feral near where I worked. She got hit by a car and then at lunch break everyone started noticing this tiny little kitty. He lived on the junk food people threw him. Someone actually caught him and I volunteered to keep him. I was the only person in the house who could handle him. I loved that cat to death, though. He was a clown, too. One day- he was dead. Don't know what happened. He was just dead. The other, Wombat, we had from birth. He died of cancer. After Jazz, I swore no more..... and then Cat came along.
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Post by adrian65 on May 5, 2017 23:06:29 GMT -5
25 years old??? That sounds like a record!
WTG for taking such a good care for Cat.
We have two cats, both females. The oldest one is 16 and the youngest one is 12.
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Post by grizman on May 6, 2017 15:37:37 GMT -5
WOW! 25 years old may not be a record, but it has got to be real close. "Stormy" was 21+ when I had to have her put down due to a urinary infection that they just couldn't control. I have no idea how long she may have lived if she could have been cured of the infection. Poor girl, was just too sick.
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Post by rockjunquie on May 6, 2017 16:29:51 GMT -5
WOW! 25 years old may not be a record, but it has got to be real close. "Stormy" was 21+ when I had to have her put down due to a urinary infection that they just couldn't control. I have no idea how long she may have lived if she could have been cured of the infection. Poor girl, was just too sick. I'm sorry to hear that. I had no idea cats lived so long. I didn't know it at the time, but she really was close to a record. Not too long after she died I read that the record holder was 25. She probably could have lived a while longer. She was eating and drinking fine, but she was weak and uncomfortable. It just seemed like the right thing to do to have her put down. I would hate to have her suffer for a flippin' record.
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Post by coloradocliff on May 6, 2017 17:32:15 GMT -5
Fingers crossed for your fur baby.. Just tears your heart out when a family member is in a bad way. Cat has a lot of people pulling for him C
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Post by grizman on May 6, 2017 20:28:42 GMT -5
It just seemed like the right thing to do to have her put down. I would hate to have her suffer for a flippin' record. [/quote]
It is so sad to see people let their pets suffer because they don't want to see them go. None, (well most) of us hate to lose a pet and family member. But it is sooo wrong for us to act on our feelings rather than our pets health. I know folks that are in this situation, and I have no trouble telling them that they are just plain "Selfish".
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