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Spike's Bitches 35: We Got a History  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Sean K - Mar 24, 2007 6:24:08 am PDT #2149 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

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.


vw bug - Mar 24, 2007 6:36:35 am PDT #2150 of 10003
Mostly lurking...

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

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


Glamcookie - Mar 24, 2007 6:41:27 am PDT #2151 of 10003
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

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


Ginger - Mar 24, 2007 6:47:27 am PDT #2152 of 10003
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

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.


P.M. Marc - Mar 24, 2007 6:56:37 am PDT #2153 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Babyitos!

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


P.M. Marc - Mar 24, 2007 7:00:07 am PDT #2154 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I like this one: [link]


Sean K - Mar 24, 2007 7:02:47 am PDT #2155 of 10003
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

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.


vw bug - Mar 24, 2007 7:03:03 am PDT #2156 of 10003
Mostly lurking...

That was my favorite too.


Topic!Cindy - Mar 24, 2007 7:09:54 am PDT #2157 of 10003
What is even happening?

Sean, this might sound crazy, but would a shelter ever take on cat, temporarily? I'm just thinking if you told your local shelter that S is very ill, and that you're unable to administer the antibiotic, but that the cat needs it badly, maybe they could help?

Another option -- what's the antibiotic? Is it something that could be administered in liquid form. Sticking a medicine dropper down the cat's throat and squeezing a bulb sounds much easier to me (in theory) than making the cat take a pill.

Another option? Does the Vet have an assistant who might like to pick up a few bucks stopping by twice a day to administer the pill?

I'm sorry. I wish I could help you. I am pretty sure I couldn't do it, either.


Amy - Mar 24, 2007 7:10:33 am PDT #2158 of 10003
Because books.

Aw, the baby toes are absolutely adorable and look delicious.

Sean, is there any other formulation of the drug? A liquid, maybe? Is there another antibiotic that would also work that comes in an antibiotic? It's much easier to shoot some liquid from a dropper down an animal's throat than get a pill down there.

When you go back today, make the vet go through every available option. I feel so bad for you, because I know for a fact that if I had ever had to give Puck pills, one of us (likely me) would have ended up grievously injured, with no pill swallowing accomplished.

x-post with the wise Cindy!