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A new method of feeding pills to cats?
My trick is simple: I dip the pill and my fingers in cooking oil
before medicating the cat. This achieves two things: 1. the oily pill goes down the throat fast and does not get stuck on the tongue 2. the cat's muzzle gets oily from my fingers and he starts licking his chops right away, and that prevents him from spitting the pill out. Is this a novel trick? |
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A new method of feeding pills to cats?
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 03:01:39 +0000, 223rem wrote:
My trick is simple: I dip the pill and my fingers in cooking oil before medicating the cat. This achieves two things: 1. the oily pill goes down the throat fast and does not get stuck on the tongue 2. the cat's muzzle gets oily from my fingers and he starts licking his chops right away, and that prevents him from spitting the pill out. Is this a novel trick? sounds good to me. |
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A new method of feeding pills to cats?
223rem wrote:
My trick is simple: I dip the pill and my fingers in cooking oil before medicating the cat. This achieves two things: 1. the oily pill goes down the throat fast and does not get stuck on the tongue 2. the cat's muzzle gets oily from my fingers and he starts licking his chops right away, and that prevents him from spitting the pill out. Is this a novel trick? That sounds like a great trick. I think I heard something similar about using butter somewhere. Betty gets anti-nausea pills, which need to be given in quarters. This is convenient because that makes a dose small enough that I can hide it in a bit of food. I cut about a cubic centimeter off a chicken nugget, poke a hole in it with a fork, then stick the pill in the nugget and feed it to Betty. |
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A new method of feeding pills to cats?
223rem wrote:
My trick is simple: I dip the pill and my fingers in cooking oil before medicating the cat. This achieves two things: 1. the oily pill goes down the throat fast and does not get stuck on the tongue 2. the cat's muzzle gets oily from my fingers and he starts licking his chops right away, and that prevents him from spitting the pill out. Is this a novel trick? Essentially the trick to pill a cat is to put the pill in the throat and then blow on its nose. This makes the cat swallow. Jill |
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