How to give your pet a pill.
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The Cat
1. Pick up the cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forearm and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As car 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 away soggy pill.
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 partner from garden.
6. Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, Hold front and rear paws. Ignore growls emitted by cat. Get partner to hold cat's 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 pull 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 partner to lie on cat with cat's head just visible from below armpit. Put pill in end of a drinking straw. Force cat's mouth open with pencil and blow down straw.
9. Check label to make sure pill is not harmful to humans. Drink beer to take away the taste. Apply band-aid to partner's forearm and remove blood from carpet with soap and water.
10. Retrieve cat from neighbour's shed. Get another pill. Open another beer. Place cat in cupboard and close door to neck, so as to leave the 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. Drink beer. Fetch scotch. Pour shot, drink. Apply cold compress to cheek and check date of last tetanus shot. Apply whisky compress to cheek to disinfect. Toss back another shot. Throw T-shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.
12. Ring fire-brigade to retrieve cat from tree across the road. Apologise to neighbour who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid cat. Take last pill from foil wrap.
13. Tie the little bastard's front paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table. Find heavy pruning gloves from shed. Push pill into mouth, followed by large piece of fish. Be rough about it. Hold head vertical and pour 2 pints of water down the cat's throat to wash down the pill.
14. Consume remainder of scotch. Get partner to drive you to Casualty. Sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearm and removes pill from your eye. Call furniture shop on the way home to order a new table.
15. Arrange for SPCA to collect mutant cat from hell and ring local pet shops to see if they have any hamsters.
The Dog
1. Wrap it in bacon. -
it gets funnier and funnier as you read it!!! my cheeks are hurting!!!!
this ones funnier than the bathing the cat one!!
actually, not so difficult lah...if the cats difficult, just ground pill into fine powder with pounder and mix up with cats favourite can of wet food...it'll be gone in a flash!! thats my trick after going through the struggles and scratches with the cats
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Ain't i glad i don't have to give any cat a pill..~
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I tried giving my cats pills when they fell sick once... other than the bites and scratches I suffered when they struggled to get away.... I found out that pills are easier than trying to feed them syrup medication.....Originally posted by _Aaron_:Ain't i glad i don't have to give any cat a pill..~
Phewww..~
Just pop the pill as far back into their throat as possible, feed them with some water and close their mouth while massaging their throat so that they'll swallow the pill....
if it were syrup medication, it gets rather messy... especially since my cats prefered to force themselves to salivate and get rid of the syrup from their mouths that way....
fortunately... they, or at least xixi, haven't been sick for a long while.... dong dong ran out and lost her way and never came back some years back...
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This reminds me of the horrendous times when I had to feed my cat pills.
I live alone so after struggling and screaming and yelling and getting scratched at and spat upon, I finally grabbed a large towel, wrapped the cat snugly in it, tucked it under my arm and with one hand, tried to open the cat's jaw whilst the other hand would quickly pop the finger into its mouth.
Sounds easy right? But nope...
Cat somehow struggled out of the towel and started to scratch madly. I simply hate feeding cats their medicine!
I tried to hide it in their favourite canned kitty food but somehow, they manage to pick it up with their sharp sense of smell.
I just detest having to feed cats their medicine. -
i always used a plunger like pill popper to feed my cats. . . .after one bad experience where my cat bit hard into my finger.
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grind to powder no use
my cat can detect it and cringe his nose and look at me suspiciously
No use doing it the stealth way
I smear the pill with mayonnaise
grab my cat under my armpit
shove it in
by the time he realises what happened
the pill slid into his throat liao
he hates me after that of course
but we make up. -
Originally posted by the Bear:
Haha...
[b]The Cat
1. Pick up the cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forearm and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As car 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 away soggy pill.
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 partner from garden.
6. Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, Hold front and rear paws. Ignore growls emitted by cat. Get partner to hold cat's 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 pull 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 partner to lie on cat with cat's head just visible from below armpit. Put pill in end of a drinking straw. Force cat's mouth open with pencil and blow down straw.
9. Check label to make sure pill is not harmful to humans. Drink beer to take away the taste. Apply band-aid to partner's forearm and remove blood from carpet with soap and water.
10. Retrieve cat from neighbour's shed. Get another pill. Open another beer. Place cat in cupboard and close door to neck, so as to leave the 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. Drink beer. Fetch scotch. Pour shot, drink. Apply cold compress to cheek and check date of last tetanus shot. Apply whisky compress to cheek to disinfect. Toss back another shot. Throw T-shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.
12. Ring fire-brigade to retrieve cat from tree across the road. Apologise to neighbour who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid cat. Take last pill from foil wrap.
13. Tie the little bastard's front paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table. Find heavy pruning gloves from shed. Push pill into mouth, followed by large piece of fish. Be rough about it. Hold head vertical and pour 2 pints of water down the cat's throat to wash down the pill.
14. Consume remainder of scotch. Get partner to drive you to Casualty. Sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearm and removes pill from your eye. Call furniture shop on the way home to order a new table.
15. Arrange for SPCA to collect mutant cat from hell and ring local pet shops to see if they have any hamsters.
The Dog
1. Wrap it in bacon.
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But you can crush the pill and put it in the cat's water or milk?
Anyway the other day I saw a stray dog trying to defecate. That was funny..
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it's common to have a love-hate relationship with cats, isn't it?
I remember when I was a kid, I chased my cat wth a huge toy dog and when she came back, she ignored me for the rest of the day.