Melbcat didn’t eat her meal and spat out her syringed meds this morning - right down the inside of my sleeve! Thankfully she’s finished her antibiotics but she still needs her pain meds.
And I don’t envy you, especially if you had to feed her the tablets.
One of ours went to the vet recently and was given antibiotics.
Within a day or so, she figured out the signs and began hiding in a cupboard as soon as either of us opened the drawer where they were kept. Or she heard the pill bottle open.
It then took bogh my partner and I to hold her down while feeding her the tablet.
Melbcat didn’t eat her meal and spat out her syringed meds this morning - right down the inside of my sleeve! Thankfully she’s finished her antibiotics but she still needs her pain meds.
hugs to Melbcat
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Hugs to you both.
@melbaboutown @Seagoon_ Poor Melbcat, hope she gets better soon.
And I don’t envy you, especially if you had to feed her the tablets.
One of ours went to the vet recently and was given antibiotics.
Within a day or so, she figured out the signs and began hiding in a cupboard as soon as either of us opened the drawer where they were kept. Or she heard the pill bottle open.
It then took bogh my partner and I to hold her down while feeding her the tablet.
Melbcat knows what an oral syringe is and has formed a negative association with the phrase “uh oh spaghettio’s”
@melbaboutown Haha
Yeah, they’re good at figuring out the hooman’s schemes.
With Miss Mimi, we couldn’t crush up her tablets and hide them in her food because one of our other babies likes indulging in other people’s meals.
We tried these meat-flavoured pill pockets. She got wise to them within a day. She got good at eating the pockets and spitting out the tablet.
We tried this contraption that flings the tablet down her throat. She got wise to that.
We tried crushing the tablet, mixing it with water, and syringing it. She got wise to that.
We tried hiding the medicines in different places. She came to recognise the sound of the bottle opening.
We tried giving the tablets in different places.
We tried all the things. At best, they worked for a day.
At worst, she bit wifey’s finger accidentally.
Most of the time, we thought she took the tablet, only for her to spit it out later.
The joys of having a sick cat…