How to give a cat a pill.

[€uroMeinke]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Wishey wanted OUT so he grabbed hold of the inside (ie: tender) part of Chris' upper arm and would NOT let go. I had to literally pry his little jaws off of Chris' arm to get him to let go.

Yes quite amazing what a cat can do when not "play" biting - those fangs can do a pretty good piercing - though I've never seen anyone sport any jewelry in an upper arm pirecing before.

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Yes quite amazing what a cat can do when not "play" biting - those fangs can do a pretty good piercing - though I've never seen anyone sport any jewelry in an upper arm pirecing before.

Well, he wasn't in the mood for a bath!

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I've gotten quite good at cat wrestling. Lyra struggled lots when I'd shove the pill down her throat, but I think she came to enjoy the sport of it.

Pill Pockets. They are your friend. Unless you like the bloodletting.

[MickeyLumbo]

very very funny stuff, mcsam!

[Scrooge McSam]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

Yes quite amazing what a cat can do when not "play" biting.

Tell me about it.

I had a beautiful paint (I don't know what to call this coloration... she was black with little flecks of all kinds of colors) cat, Mattie, that, well, she just went crazy. There's no nice way to say it. She was always "special" and I loved her but she became dangerous.

While making it clear to her one day that I wasn't going to allow her to kill Boomer, she gives me this look like "Oh yeah, bitch, just watch me, I'll take you out too" and she lunged at me, hooking both claws into the sides of my head and digging her teeth into my nose.

She lived outside after that.

[Not Afraid]

Ahhhh, you had a Torti. Torti's can be a llittle, um, skitzie. Our calico is also a bit strange. I suspect is is having all of those other cats mixed up in her that causes it.

[Scrooge McSam]

Maybe so She was "special"

She adopted this other outside kitten we came to call Batman. She'd never had a litter of her own and when Batman showed up, he was hers. She'd hiss and swat at anybody that would get near him. For a while, I could pick her up and love on her and get her to settle down but that stopped working after a while.

[wendybeth]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Ahhhh, you had a Torti. Torti's can be a llittle, um, skitzie. Our calico is also a bit strange. I suspect is is having all of those other cats mixed up in her that causes it.

That explains Haggis.

[Kevy Baby]

Giving a cat a pill is like trying to put a harness on a bearded dragon.

Which is remarkably similar to trying to thread a needle in a hurricane!

[Baileykat]

Oh dear lord! That was one of the funniest things I've read in a long time!

Perfect, our cat, will NOT ride in a car! It's horrid! So for our move out to Arizona from Texas, the vet gave us kitty valium. And a plastic pill giver. Looks like a plastics straw with a soft tip that hold the pill and a plunger on the end.

You've not lived til you've had to give a cat a pill!

Luckily for us, Perfect is declawed, front and back. But he still has teeth!