Medicating your family pets

Help Support CattleToday:

Just Curious

Well-known member
Joined
Sep 13, 2006
Messages
585
Reaction score
2
Location
Ronan, Montana
How To Give A Cat A Pill
1. Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow.
2. Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat in left arm and repeat process.
3. Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away.
4. Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm, holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for a count of ten.
5. Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse from garden.
6. Kneel on floor with 'puddy' wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into mouth Drop pill down ruler and rub cat's throat vigorously.
7. Retrieve cat from curtain rail, get another pill from foil wrap. Make note to buy new ruler and repair curtains. Carefully sweep shattered figurines and vases from hearth and set to one side for gluing later.
8. Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with head just visible from below armpit. Put pill in end of drinking straw, force mouth open with pencil and blow down drinking straw.
9. Check label to make sure pill not harmful to humans, drink 1 beer to take taste away. Apply Band-Aid to spouse's forearm and remove blood from carpet with cold water and soap.
10. Retrieve cat from neighbor's shed. Get another pill. Open another beer. Place cat in cupboard, and close door on to neck, to leave head showing. Force mouth open with dessert spoon. Flick pill down throat with elastic band.
11. Fetch screwdriver from garage and put cupboard door back on hinges. Pour a "Pint of the Black Stuff". Fetch bottle of Paddy's Whiskey. Pour shot, drink. Apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of last tetanus shot. Apply whiskey compress to cheek to disinfect. Toss back another shot. Throw Tee shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.
12. Call fire department to retrieve the damn cat from across the road. Apologize to neighbor who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid cat. Take last pill from foil wrap.
13. Tie the little bastard's front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table, find heavy-duty pruning gloves from shed. Push pill into mouth followed by large piece of filet steak. Be rough about it. Hold head vertically and pour 2 pints of water down throat to wash pill down.
14. Consume remainder of Guinness and Paddys. Get spouse to drive you to the emergency room, sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearm and removes pill remnants from right eye. Call furniture shop on way home to order new table.
15. Arrange for SPCA to collect mutant 'Catsputin' from hell and call local pet shop to see if they have any hamsters.

How To Give A Dog A Pill
1. Wrap it in bacon.
2. Toss it in the air.
 
kitty36.gif
been there done that, in the past with one cat I had, the one I have now who has to take medication is fantastic, he just licks them from my hand, always said 'he thought he was a dog' a Rottweiler to other cats and dogs but a push over to humans
cat_nap.gif
 
:lol: Been there.... Don't try to pry the cats mouth open and use your finger to keep it open. Well acctually if you do, make sure you have band-aids on hand. :lol:
 
Put it in and hold their mouth shut, last time we wormed my wife's psycho cat she refused to swallow and the pill foamed up in her mouth, that was pretty funny looking. :lol:
 
Ever try to give a cat Amoxil? I mean the pink bubble gum flavored medicine that every kid takes a million times. My vet prescribed it for my cat several years ago. I thought the least he could have done was to make it tuna flavored or something.

How about ear drops? Just try to get ear drops in a cat. I dare you. :mad:
 
So funny and so true.


Here's an easier way that actually works.

1. Gather pill, cat and rubber band.
2. Put rubber band across cats ears.
3. Cat will crouch down and not move. Put pill in back of throat, close mouth and rub throat until swallowed.
4. Remember to take rubber band off ears!
 
Lammie":l25uw5i5 said:
Ever try to give a cat Amoxil? I mean the pink bubble gum flavored medicine that every kid takes a million times. My vet prescribed it for my cat several years ago. I thought the least he could have done was to make it tuna flavored or something.

How about ear drops? Just try to get ear drops in a cat. I dare you. :mad:
Oh yeah! Super Fun! ;-)
 
Why mess with a cat? I guess when we have a barn full (20+) we don't seem to notice if one could use a pill, they better be able to take care of themselves I say.
 
Anguscollegekid":29gaxbn6 said:
Why mess with a cat? I guess when we have a barn full (20+) we don't seem to notice if one could use a pill, they better be able to take care of themselves I say.

Apparently it never crossed your tiny little brain that some people actually have house cats who are pets, and that they actually care about those cats. :eek: :roll:
 
msscamp":1zecl9cy said:
Anguscollegekid":1zecl9cy said:
Why mess with a cat? I guess when we have a barn full (20+) we don't seem to notice if one could use a pill, they better be able to take care of themselves I say.

Apparently it never crossed your tiny little brain that some people actually have house cats who are pets, and that they actually care about those cats. :eek: :roll:

well said mss: I have two house cats who are adored, and pampered, my husband will sit on the floor if one of the cats is on the chair.
 
chrisy":pqzyhl7l said:
msscamp":pqzyhl7l said:
Anguscollegekid":pqzyhl7l said:
Why mess with a cat? I guess when we have a barn full (20+) we don't seem to notice if one could use a pill, they better be able to take care of themselves I say.

Apparently it never crossed your tiny little brain that some people actually have house cats who are pets, and that they actually care about those cats. :eek: :roll:

I have two house cats who are adored, and pampered, my husband will sit on the floor if one of the cats is on the chair.

Yeah - been there, done that. :roll: :lol: :lol: My cat wasn't content with just stealing my chair, though. She would actually lure me out of it by pretending to want to go outside then, when I got up to let her out, she would double back and be comfortably curled up in my favorite rocker. :roll: :oops: I never had the heart to kick her out, but she was by no means spoiled or pampered! Yeah, right! :lol: :lol:
 
Top