I have 1 big cat that does not like to be given frontline so I know giving him a pill will be very hard...I don't even know how to do this, I have tried to put it in the food and he will not touch it, he knows! My other cat is pretty easy, it is the male that has to take 1 1/2 pills so any advice would be great! ThanksCan anyone help me with advice on giving my cats a pill?
1. Pick cat up 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. Retrive 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 10.
5. Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe.
Call spouse from garden.
6. Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, holding front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold cats 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 from hearth and set to one side for gluing later.
8. Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with its head just visible from below spouse's armpit. Put pill in end of drinking straw, force cat's mouth open with pencil and blow down drinking straw.
9. Check label to make sure pill not harmful to humans, dring glass of water to take taste away. Apply band-aid to spouse's forearm and remove blood from carpet with cold water and soap.
10. Retriev cat from neighbor's shed. Get another pill. Place cat in cupboard and close door onto 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 door back on hinges.
Apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of last tetnus shot. Throw T-shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.
12. Ring fire brigade to retrieve cat from tree across the road.
Apologize to neighbor who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid
cat. Take last pill from foil wrap.
13. Tie cat's front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind
tightly to leg of dining table. Find heavy duty pruning gloves from
shed. Force cat's mouth open with small spanner. Push pill into mouth followed by large piece of fillet steak. Hold head vertically and pour 1/2 pint of water down throat to wash pill down.
14. Get spouse to drive you to emergency room; sit quietly while
doctor stitches fingers and forearm and removes pill remnants from
right eye.
15..stop by pet store on they way home to buy a Dog..
HOW TO GIVE A DOG A PILL WRAP IT IN BACON..Can anyone help me with advice on giving my cats a pill?
All three of my cats ';pill'; very easily. I feed them dry food exclusively. I take their pills and rub them in my hand with a few pieces of their food. Then I simply put the pills on top of their food. If they are capsules, I open them and dump the contents on their food. No problem. (My cats are hungry when they eat as they get 1/4 cup of food in the morning and 1/4 cup in the afternoon. If they don't eat it right away, I pick it up and put it away. This makes sure that each cat eats his food only. Their weights are perfect and they are very healthy.Perhaps, if your cats are used to grazing all day long, this won't work for you)
I used to make 2/3 parts and put in his gravy servings. Hi even don't know it's there.
Have your vet teach you how to use a piller. You can use a piller that does the same thing as using your fingers. There is a way to gently open their mouth by using your fingers on both sides of their mouth in the back area, but I always preferred to have the pill ready in one hand on the end of my middle finger and pry open their jaws along the bottom teeth and jamming the pill as far down the throat as possible and as fast as possible (you must have short nails to do this). Use a little bit of lubricant like vasoline or lanoline on the pill. Then close their mouth and hold it shut while stroking their throat until they swallow. Even then, it doesn't guarantee they won't spit it out. You have to check their gums and under their tongues to make sure they aren't harboring it, and they will, sometimes. They will hold it there and spit it out when you aren't looking. Your best bet is to have the vet teach you various techniques or have him/her do it for you. I am an excellent piller (can do it in about a second flat), but some cats have even got the best of me!! Another suggestion is to ask the vet to give it to you in liquid form, if possible, and you can squirt it into the pockets of the sides of their mouths, little by little with an eye dropper. They HAVE to swallow it that way. Takes a little longer, but gets the job done.
can you squeeze it in a treat like pounce. maybe he wont notice its in there. we used to give my dog his meds in a piece of cheese, it worked every time.
DrsFosterSmith.com has pills capsules that are made from treats...you just pop the pill in and they'll eat it up...They are made for dogs and cats and they work so good!!!!
is it a kind of pill that you can crush? If you can crush it do so and hide it in some of his favorite treats or wet cat food. this worked for my cat. good luck.
Have you tried Frontline drops? It's so easy. You just put some drops on the skin on his neck. And within 24 hrs everything is okay.
If you have, and this is what you mean with that your cat don't want to take Frontline, I can suggest the following:
Crush the medicine into dust. Add a few drops with water and mix good. Put this in a syringe (without needle) and force it down in your cat. Put the end behind the back teeth and give the cat the substance. You have to be two people. One to hold the cat and one to do the medicine.
It sounds harsh, yes I know.
But I have been working with so many cats, and I have always seen that cats that will not take pills, you just have to force them (they know all the tricks).
Hence, for me, when the drops came with Frontline, I was more than happy :o)
At the moment I am giving pills to 10 cats twice a day so I am probably the expert...!
Wait until the cat is in one of his lethargic moods (first thing in the morning is good) then do the following:
1. Take the pill in your right hand;
2. Sit on the floor with the cat (all nice and friendly) then with your left hand take him by the scruff of the neck - a handful, not just a pinch;
3. Lift him up so his back feet are just on the floor;
4. Holding the pill between your index finger and thumb, prise his jaws wide open;
5. Push the tablet to the back of his throat - as far back as possible and beyond his teeth;
6. Still holding his scruff, close his mouth and rub his chin in a downward motion to massage the tablet down his throat.
If you don't get it first time then wait some time for him to calm down before trying again.
Sounds simple but with practice you can get it over and done with before he realises what is going on.
Other recommendation for problem cats is to cut the tablet into 2 or even 4 pieces and insert into a piece of cheese or tuna fish - something pungent but small enough that they wont bite into it.
Have fun!
I had this problem. My vet told me some advice and it worked.
I gave my cat a little veggie oil from a t-spoon, which he loved and ate right from the spoon.
I then sat on the floor with him inbetween my legs and held him firmly with one hand. WIth the other hand I placed my thumb and finger at the joints of his jaw and pressed until he opened his mouth. I pushed the pill in his mouth and then held his mouth shut while I stroked his neck downward, to encourage the swallowing movement. You might have to have a friend help you.
you can pill him - basically crank his/her head back until the angle of the jaw forces him/her to open up and pop it in. You really won't hurt them, contrary to the faces they make, their jaw will open before you break anything (I realize this sounds gory/gruesome, sorry...). There is a possibility of it getting down the windpipe instead of the stomach pipe which could be dangerous. And some cats are really really good at avoiding this... Alternatively, my vet uses a little ';pill syringe'; thingie which slides in the side of the mouth and seems to work just great. My cats are (so far) really good about pills the few times I've had to do them, but if I had a tough one, I would contact the vet and see if they could order you one and show you how to use it. Good luck. I have seen cats who can lick a dish clean and still avoid a pill (and then don't they look smug!)...
If nothing else works, you can get a kind of syringe thing from your vet which you put the pill in then sort've 'shoot' it into your cat's mouth, but use it as a last resort, my cat really didn't like it!
Pray for mercy!
LOL! No I'm just kidding! Well... sorta. LOL!
Pilling a cat comes very easy for me, but I've been doing it forever. I can pill any cat in about 1 second flat. This is my trick.
You kneel on your knees the floor. Put your bum on your heels and close any exit off with you feet. Put kitty between your legs. Kitty will usually try to back out but can't because you have created a cave with your legs so kitty is trapped.
Now... grab kitty's head with your left hand. Have the pillin your right hand and pry kittys mouth open with your right hand.
Quickly! And I mean Quickly! shove the pill down the back of kitty's throat!
Shut kitty's mouth and blow on kittys nose to make him swallow.
Reopen mouth and check to MAKE SURE kitty swallowed and or did not cheek the pill.
Release kitty and pray it doesn't remember what you just did to it the next time you need to pill it.
And that is how you pill a cat!
First you need two people to do it. One person holds the cat by the back of the neck with his head tilted up, Then the pill giver place their fingers toward the back of the jaw. If you push in gently it will pop open. Put the pill in the back as far as you can push or throw it , shut the jaw and rub the cats neck, you will see him swallow then the pill is in. They also had a thing at the vet that you can put the pill into. It is call a pill shooter, its about $4.00. It shoots the pill into the back of the cat throat and they swallow it. I have a cat that when he was little (runt of the litter, now 25lb Rag Doll) who had ashasma, I had to give him a pill 3 times a day, I learned how fast. Good luck hope this helps.
Below is the best instructions for giving a cat pills.
Pill pockets. they work great. different flavors, sizes.
My little guy takes a pill everyday. sometimes I have to add a little peanut butter. with a kitty add a little butter .
I have found the best method for pilling difficult cats is to do it as inobtrusively as possible. I handle no more of the cat than I need to. Since pilling the cat requires that I only get it down the cats throat, I take hold of the cats head at the cheeks, tilt it back, open the mouth with one of the fingers from the hand holding the pill and pop the pill over the base of the tongue, then I hold the mouth shut and rub the throat till the cat swallows and the tongue comes out to lick the nose - this usually only takes about 10 seconds and the cat gets over it very quickly.
Your vet office should have a print up of this procedure with diagrams - if your cat is really difficult there are also special pillers available at your vet office.
Can you get a liquid version? I had to give my cat a liquid medicine that she hated. I squirted the right amount onto her paw, and she licked it off. Now my cats have to take laxatone for their hairballs. One cat hates it, and one loves it. I put it on a straw ( laxatone's really sticky) and rub it on her paw. Same technique for liquids works every time.
Oh man, I hate giving cats pills! OK, I've tried putting in food before, and it doesn't matter how much he or she has liked the food previously, they just eat around the pill and leave it there. I've also tried crushing and putting in a mixture of something yummy on a spoon - nup. The only way is to hold the cat with its botttom backed towards your chest or between your legs, have your left hand firmly holding the cat's body and preventing its front legs from moving and use your right hand to open up its mouth at the side of the mouth (not the front), and slip the pill in with your right hand, then hold their mouth shut firmly and stroke their throat downwards to encourage them to swallow - make sure you firmly, but gently, hold their mouth closed until they have - they sometimes hold the damn thing in their mouths and spit out! Good luck.
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