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"Karen Chuplis" wrote in message ... in article , at wrote on 8/28/03 7:55 PM: Well, I have to give Smudge antibiotics (flagyl), and I guess it must be foul-tasting stuff because the vet gave me little empty gel capsules to put the pill in first. Whatever, it doesn't work. She just won't swallow the thing. She kept spitting it out, and I kept putting it back in, and I held her mouth shut and stroked her throat, etc, but she would not swallow it. What does work for both of my cats is to give them medicine in liquid form. So what I'd like to do is dissolve the pill in some strong-tasting stuff that cats like, and then squirt the liquid into the side of her mouth (through her teeth, slowly, so she doesn't choke on it). I've been doing this for years with decent-tasting medicines and it works fine. The only problem I have with this is that I want to find some liquid that's strong-tasting enough to hide the taste of the pill. I don't want to use tuna juice because that requires me to open cans of tuna. The tuna juice doesn't last that long (at least, it's not good-tasting for that long) in the fridge, and I'm going to be giving Smudge this medication for 2 weeks. That's a lot of cans of tuna to waste. (OK, I could eat it, but I don't necessily *want* to eat tuna that often. And interestingly enough, the cats don't like it that much, either, even though it's the good stuff - so I can't feed it to them, either.) So, the question is, is there anything out there with *all* of the following characteristics: * Tastes really good to cats * In liquid form (or powder that I can mix with water) * Lasts at least 2 weeks * Doesn't require me to waste other food to get to it * Available in the USA (California) For example, can you buy "sardine juice" by itself in a jar? How about powders that you could mix with water, that produce a great-tasting liquid for cats? Please help, I'm desperate!! Thanks, Joyce Well, there is clam juice, but not all meds should be disolved. I have the best luck with a little plastic piller (vet) and wrap them in a towel. If you have it all laid out first, it takes about 30 seconds and they never taste the pill. I follow it with a treat of chicken in broth. Karen Um, I had my best luck with those plastic pill poppers, too. Another possibility would be to have 2 pill poppers, you could coat the outside of the gelcap with some butter and maybe get her to swallow it with one pill popper and then you'd have a 2nd dry one to use after you clean up the first. I wish you much luck and many purrs to find a good solution. Christine |
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wrote * Tastes really good to cats * In liquid form (or powder that I can mix with water) * Lasts at least 2 weeks * Doesn't require me to waste other food to get to it * Available in the USA (California) How about some very strong beef or fish stock? At least here, you can get it in powder form, and you could mix it so that you put double the amount of powder to make it really strong. Purrs for the pilling! -- Marina |
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"Motherthing" wrote in message ...
What about clam juice? I'm not sure how strongly flavored it is, but I know you can find it in just about any grocery store and you can salt it up as Angela said. -- Motherthing Clam juice - what a good idea! There's also chicken or beef broth - I'm sure there are fishy-tasting soups out there in groceryland, as well. I've never been able to pill Mike and always give him liquid meds, so I can sympathize. I do, however, squirt it quickly down the back of his throat rather than slowly in the side, so that it's over with fast and with minimal contact with taste buds. That's the idea, anyway. I follow up with treats, like any good catslave. :-) Our vet has compounded meds for Mike before, but I've had to specifically *ask* him to. It might be worth checking with your vet to see if he can do this. We're purring for you and Smudge, whatever you end up doing. ------ Krista |
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Some hair ball medicine is just cod liver oil. Very strong tasting and most cats dearly love it. Jeanne On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 23:19:46 -0300, "OU812?" wrote: wrote: Well, I have to give Smudge antibiotics (flagyl), and I guess it must be foul-tasting stuff because the vet gave me little empty gel capsules to put the pill in first. Whatever, it doesn't work. She just won't swallow the thing. She kept spitting it out, and I kept putting it back in, and I held her mouth shut and stroked her throat, etc, but she would not swallow it. What does work for both of my cats is to give them medicine in liquid form. So what I'd like to do is dissolve the pill in some strong-tasting stuff that cats like, and then squirt the liquid into the side of her mouth (through her teeth, slowly, so she doesn't choke on it). I've been doing this for years with decent-tasting medicines and it works fine. The only problem I have with this is that I want to find some liquid that's strong-tasting enough to hide the taste of the pill. I don't want to use tuna juice because that requires me to open cans of tuna. The tuna juice doesn't last that long (at least, it's not good-tasting for that long) in the fridge, and I'm going to be giving Smudge this medication for 2 weeks. That's a lot of cans of tuna to waste. (OK, I could eat it, but I don't necessily *want* to eat tuna that often. And interestingly enough, the cats don't like it that much, either, even though it's the good stuff - so I can't feed it to them, either.) So, the question is, is there anything out there with *all* of the following characteristics: * Tastes really good to cats * In liquid form (or powder that I can mix with water) * Lasts at least 2 weeks * Doesn't require me to waste other food to get to it * Available in the USA (California) For example, can you buy "sardine juice" by itself in a jar? How about powders that you could mix with water, that produce a great-tasting liquid for cats? Please help, I'm desperate!! Thanks, Joyce how about mixing it with one of the petroleum based hairball products? YOu can get meat flavored ones, and the texture is quite thick, so it would be more a matter of smearing it in the cat's mouth than drops... Kristy -- The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends. |
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THANK YOU EVERYONE, for all your responses and suggestions on how to
get Smudge to take her medicine. I've saved them all. And I've tried a few. Today, I tried a combination of three of the suggestions: wrapping her in a towel, coating the gel cap with butter, and blowing into her eyes after I get the pill into her mouth (so she'll automatically swallow it). Well, I'm here to report that all three of these ideas FAILED. sigh... Smudge simply doesn't want to swallow a pill! (The towel was good, though, in minimizing the damage to my person. ) So now I'm going to attempt some of the dissolving ideas I got. (I really liked the maple syrup idea - all along I've been thinking fish, meat, etc, and I never thought of *sugar*! Smudge loves carbs, so she just might go for that.) Thanks again! I'll keep you posted on how it works to dissolve the pill (after I ask the vet, to be sure it's OK to dissolve it). Joyce PS - to the person who asked why she's on flagyl, it's because she's been losing weight and also pooping outside the litter box, and the vet thinks she might have a bacterial infection in her intestines. This is essentially a diagnostic tool, which I hope is also an Rx if the vet guessed correctly. Smudge also got a worming treatment just in case she has a tapeworm. If none of the above helps, then the next step is a biopsy - ulp! I'm trying not to think about that yet... (By the way, what's the difference between an anti-bacterial and an antibiotic?) |
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On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:31:56 GMT, wrote:
THANK YOU EVERYONE, for all your responses and suggestions on how to get Smudge to take her medicine. I've saved them all. And I've tried a few. Today, I tried a combination of three of the suggestions: wrapping her in a towel, coating the gel cap with butter, and blowing into her eyes after I get the pill into her mouth (so she'll automatically swallow it). Well, I'm here to report that all three of these ideas FAILED. sigh... Smudge simply doesn't want to swallow a pill! (The towel was good, though, in minimizing the damage to my person. ) Joyce, I found that all the things I used to get my Tribble (RB) to take his pills don't work at all for my Natasha. The only thing that *does* work with her is prying her mouth open and putting the pill (or pieces of pill, I have to cut it into thirds because of pill size) as far back in her mouth as I can get it. I lightly hold her mouth closed, and she usually swallows within a couple seconds - I don't even have to stroke her throat, blow into her eyes, or anything like that. I guess this is the "manual version" of using a pill gun. A people analogue would be if you "tossed back" bad tasting liquid to the back of your throat. You don't taste it because it never gets on your tongue, and all you can do is swallow it. Best of luck in finding what works with Smudge! Jeanne Hedge, as directed by Natasha http://www.jhedge.com CompuServe Anime/Manga Forum via Your Browser - IT'S FREE! - *** http://go.compuserve.com/anime *** |
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