jmcquown wrote:

On 4/16/2021 12:43 AM, cshenk wrote:
Tigger wrote:

cshenk wrote:
jmcquown wrote:



There is also a liquid antibiotic that worked well on gushy
food. Daisy-chan used it at times as even the vets couldn't
pill her.

I've used an eyedropper, holding the cat much as for getting a
pill down (hold head from behind, thumb and middle finger where
the jaws hinge). A quick squirt and done with minimal blood loss
(on my part).

LOL, Daisy-chan was a true feral, (not the joke, 'ohh I found her
outside must be feral') and that does NOT work.

No, not even the vet could do that.

Smile, I get to laugh now but it wasn't that funny to get 'free nail
clipping' for the safety of the vet. Nor was it funny to see the
had ski masks (Haloween movie type) and metal 'gloves' to the
shoulders for a few years at the vets.

That's definitely not just a scared to be at the vet cat!

Nope, Daisy-chan was not even a colony cat. Full on feral, probably
minumum 7 years wild but may have been 11. Rare to find such still
alive, much less one able to shift them to indoor happy cat. She beat
all odds for survival since ferals of her ilk seldom last more than 5
years.


She did calm down with us pretty fast but Lord help the vets and
staff! I think she was 18 before she calmed down enough for them
and just snarled.

Buffy was a feral cat. There is a feral cat colony where I live and
she was born into it. She was part of a TNR program. The
difference is, her former slave saw her notched ear and scooped her
up when she was about 5 months old, took her inside and Buffy quickly
turned into an indoor cat.

Smile, so happy to see that! She was younger. That's probably why she
adapted better. Very happy to see that!

A lot of people get 'feral' very wrong. They try to lable a cat found
outside and skittish as feral, but as you know, that's not really
accurate.


I have liquid pain medication to give her but given she just had
teeth extracted the idea of holding her jaw like that is a bit
intimidating. I'll manage because I love her and don't want her to be
in pain but it's a bit nerve-wracking. I need to see if I can get
her to eat a little something before I try to give her the first
syringe of pain meds.

Try a touch in soft food and see if she will eat a little of it? Maybe
a favored treat? Once it numbs her down a bit, she will eat more.