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Alternative to pilling
"---MIKE---" wrote in message ... I am supposed to get clavamox pills into Tiger twice a day. Hiding in his food isn't working and I don't think he would eat "pill pockets". I wonder if I could smash the pill, mix it with butter (or vasoline) and smear the mixture on his fur. The alternative is a number of 20 mile trips to the vet for a shot. --- See if he might like it crushed into liver or chicken pate. Good luck! ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44� 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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Alternative to pilling
On 2012-07-21, ---MIKE--- wrote:
I am supposed to get clavamox pills into Tiger twice a day. Hiding in his food isn't working and I don't think he would eat "pill pockets". I wonder if I could smash the pill, mix it with butter (or vasoline) and smear the mixture on his fur. The alternative is a number of 20 mile trips to the vet for a shot. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44� 15' N - Elevation 1580') I'm pretty sure the butter on fur method won't work. Clavamox isn't strongly flavored, so mixing a crushed pill with wet food ought to work, especially if you can delay the first feeding of the day a little. Personally, I've always been able to pill my cats. Some medicines are so bitter you can't mix with food, so there is not much alternative to pilling. Bud |
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Alternative to pilling- SUCCESS - I think
I crushed a clavamox pill in a small bowl. Then I opened a can of
Chicken of the Sea solid white tuna (in water) and pored some of the juice in the bowl and mixed it up. Tiger "polished" the bowl! Then I gave him a few pieces of the tuna as a treat. I will try to repeat this late today. On another note, this morning I put out two plates of the Chicken Soup canned food. Neither cat was interested. Then I opened a can of Wellness turkey and put two dishes of that next to the others. They ate the Wellness and ignored the Chicken Soup. Go figure. Cats! ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44� 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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Alternative to pilling- SUCCESS - I think
I'm very pleased to hear it.
-- Adrian |
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Alternative to pilling- SUCCESS - I think
"---MIKE---" wrote in message
... I crushed a clavamox pill in a small bowl. Then I opened a can of Chicken of the Sea solid white tuna (in water) and pored some of the juice in the bowl and mixed it up. Tiger "polished" the bowl! Then I gave him a few pieces of the tuna as a treat. I will try to repeat this late today. On another note, this morning I put out two plates of the Chicken Soup canned food. Neither cat was interested. Then I opened a can of Wellness turkey and put two dishes of that next to the others. They ate the Wellness and ignored the Chicken Soup. Go figure. Cats! ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44� 15' N - Elevation 1580') *** I'm glad you thought of the tuna juice. I was going to suggest that, but never got around to posting the suggestion. Pickles is absolutely wild about the juice from water-packed tuna, but she has very little interest in the tuna itself. Waffles has to have some of the juice just because Pickles gets some. This happens every time I open a can of tuna. Joy |
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Alternative to pilling- SUCCESS - I think
I'm glad to hear that you found some thing that worked..Hope it will
keep working for the pills...... |
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Alternative to pilling- SUCCESS - I think
---MIKE--- wrote:
I crushed a clavamox pill in a small bowl. Then I opened a can of Chicken of the Sea solid white tuna (in water) and pored some of the juice in the bowl and mixed it up. Tiger "polished" the bowl! Then I gave him a few pieces of the tuna as a treat. I will try to repeat this late today. That's great! How long do you have to give him the medicine? -- Joyce We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. -- Louis D. Brandeis |
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Alternative to pilling- SUCCESS - I think
Joyce asked:
That's great! How long do you have to give him the medicine? Another week. Last night he did a massive poop and this morning he seems to be acting normal. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44� 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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Alternative to pilling- SUCCESS - I think
---MIKE--- wrote:
Joyce asked: That's great! How long do you have to give him the medicine? Another week. Last night he did a massive poop and this morning he seems to be acting normal. In the great tradition of RPCA'ers cheering about cat poop: Hooray!! -- Joyce May the great galactic kitten always purr you to sleep. |
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Alternative to pilling- SUCCESS - I think
"---MIKE---" wrote in message ... Joyce asked: That's great! How long do you have to give him the medicine? Another week. Last night he did a massive poop and this morning he seems to be acting normal. ---MIKE--- ------ Hooray for the big poop! Constipation can cause a build up of toxins in the body so I am sure he could have been feeling ill because of it. I know this because prior to 2003 my social work team worked with both children & adults including learning disability & elderly. Sometimes when an elderly person was showing signs of dementia for the first time which triggered off a call to us from relatives, it turned out that that they had constipation (common in the elderly as they sometimes don't drink enough fluid so they don't have to get up for the bathroom in the night) and once it was recognised and resolved they returned to their normal selves. I was sorry to have to choose between the two disciplines but specialist teams were the new forward and the adult team manager was a nasty piece of work. If the child care team manager had become the adult team manager I would have stayed with my real love which was working with the elderly. Their lives can be so improved (and those of their family who are trying to care for them) with a bit of daycare, respite and some equipment. I will never forget one day. No, stop. I digress. This is Tiger's thread. May he poop daily from now on ;-) Sort of sounds like a weird thing to say, but I mean it in the best way. All rspca'ers are not afraid to celebrate either firm poop when it is not, or the final release of days.. Tweed |
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