I should not create riddles on Saturday mornings.

Really? No. Also, you might wanna cut back on doing voices when I'm too tired to tell a zombie from a hypnotist.

So glad your MIL is doing better and her oxygen level is headed in the right direction, Laura.

ION, babyspam!

Sean, ask the vet if the pill can be crushed and mixed with something. My cat loves yogurt, so he'll take any pill as long as I can crush it up and mix it with a spoonful of yogurt.

I asked yesterday. They said no. I'm really stressing out about this, and my stress levels were already through the roof this week, between S's knee injury, the cat's illness, and one other huge piece of really frigging bad news that has hit me very hard.

Alternatively, there are compounding pharmacies that will make chewable chicken-flavored things that have the same medication in them as the pill.

I'll ask later today at the vet, when I go to get her to give the pill to the cat. She said she'd do this one more time, and now I don't know what I'm going to do. We have not been successful in giving the poor guy his medicine, and he's just getting more and more violent when I put my hand on his head to even try and start the process.

Is your cat smart enough to get it, if you sat and explained that you need him to take the pill so he can get better (putting lots of emotion into it, because while they don't always get the English, they do pick up on how we feel)?

I've been trying. Just about constantly to beg plead, and otherwise generally explain to him that he needs to take this pill to get better. It doesn't seem to be getting through.

JZ, I'm ded. So cute! Thanks for sharing!

{{{Sean}}} I wish I could help, hon.

Matilda toes! She's adorable. I love the one of JZ and M sleeping. So sweet.

Baby toes!

I wish I weren't on the other side of the country, Sean. I became good at giving cats pills from years of sick cats, but the techniques are almost impossible to describe. I hold the cat next to my body with my left elbow, grab the top part of the cat's jaw with my left thumb and forefinger and jab the piller down his throat very fast. Then I let the cat go really fast, because he's pissed. Can you hide it in people tunafish? I say that, even though every animal I every had would eat neatly around the pill.

Babyitos!

JZ, did you get my message that I'd sent something with Lee for you?

I like this one: [link]

Can you hide it in people tunafish? I say that, even though every animal I every had would eat neatly around the pill.

It's an antibiotic, so it's a friggin' horse pill. I could hide it in food, but it would be too big to get down his throat, and he'd probably easily eat around it.

I'm very stressed out about this.

He'd supposed to get two pills a day. He got one yesterday, because the vet gave it to him when she was showing me how to do it.

He did not get his pill for last night, and it took multiple attempts for him to not get the pill. He needs this medication. But he won't take it. I'm stressed almost beyond the capacity to function right now.

That was my favorite too.