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Need help pilling cat!
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... 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. Flagyl *is* nasty tasting stuff. Shadow is on it, probably for life. I use gelcaps but you could see if you can have it compounded by a compounding pharmacy. The vet will have to call it in as a prescription so they know the dose of the med along with whatever they compound it with but they have stuff like chicken flavor, liver flavor, etc. Vetcentric does compounding but you probably need it right away and that is mail order. The vet should know of one. |
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Hi Joyce, what I do with cats that are difficult to give tablets to is to
get a syringe and fill with just water, hold the cat head tilted back, pop pill into mouth (as far back as you can) and follow it up with a squirt of water, massage the throat until the water is swallowed. Good luck, it works for me everytime. Lois wrote in message ... 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 |
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Basically, sardine juice is just salty water.....and if she is like any of
the cats I know, she will love anything salty. Just dissolve enough salt to make it "tastyish" to you....then see if she likes the taste.....if she does then dissolve the tablet in that. Hoping that was some help to you Angela wrote in message ... 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 |
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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 Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death. - Rosalind Russell wrote in message ... 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. |
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Adding to what others have said, you could try KMR formula. However, do
ask your vet first to see if it's ok to dissolve this pill. -- Victor M. Martinez http://www.che.utexas.edu/~martiv |
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"rrb_041303" wrote in message
news:ddy3b.9360$QT5.5256@fed1read02... wrote: 1. Call the vet back and see if you can get the medicine in liquid form. Since I have such trouble with my cats and pills I always get medicine in liquid form now. Flagyl is available in liquid form but it is very very very bitter. The cat ends up foaming and drooling all of it out. Or vomits. Nasty stuff. |
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Cheryl wrote:
"rrb_041303" wrote in message news:ddy3b.9360$QT5.5256@fed1read02... wrote: 1. Call the vet back and see if you can get the medicine in liquid form. Since I have such trouble with my cats and pills I always get medicine in liquid form now. Flagyl is available in liquid form but it is very very very bitter. The cat ends up foaming and drooling all of it out. Or vomits. Nasty stuff. In checking on the net I see that you are talking about Metronidazole. I can agree on the bitter part. I had to give that to male cat for four days in liquid form. I never had a problem with him foaming with it funny enough though. Maybe the dosing syringe the vet gave me helped with the foaming. I had more trouble with the Baytril and foaming I finished him on a week ago. Go figure. |
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