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EEEK! It's a plane and it's heading right for Big Ben! Save him!
 
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Gorgeous photo.:yes:



How did the cat sitter do with Ophelia? Hope she's doing well!
 
Thanks Mari and Grant!

Ophelia appears to be doing well. She seems to have gained a little weight, which is good. The pepcid appears to be working (anti-nausea) although I did see part of a pill on my bedspread which means she is spitting them out - naughty girl.
 
woodstock said:
Ophelia appears to be doing well. She seems to have gained a little weight, which is good. The pepcid appears to be working (anti-nausea) although I did see part of a pill on my bedspread which means she is spitting them out - naughty girl.
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Haha. Great to hear!
 
woodstock said:
Thanks Mari and Grant!

Ophelia appears to be doing well. She seems to have gained a little weight, which is good. The pepcid appears to be working (anti-nausea) although I did see part of a pill on my bedspread which means she is spitting them out - naughty girl.
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Better spitting them out than throwing them up!:yikes:
 
It's rather strange to give a cat a pill, watch them swallow (tell-tale licking of nose), release them... watch them saunter off and then pfft pill on the floor. The little minx seems to be able to hold it in her mouth for several minutes.

Right now she is attacking my sweatshirt strings which are trailing the floor.

I really better get to sleep or soon it will be 6 AM London time and then I will be up for sure...
 
woodstock said:
The pepcid appears to be working (anti-nausea) although I did see part of a pill on my bedspread which means she is spitting them out - naughty girl.
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Are you using the piller? That puts the pill far back into their mouths making to tough for them to do anything but swallow.
 
RD - indeed, her Majesty appears to be doing well. She has definitely gained a little bit of weight!

Scott, I gotta get one of those. I can't have her pretending to take her meds and then spit them out behind my back. Especially since this one is the one that will help her keep her food down.
 
woodstock said:
RD - indeed, her Majesty appears to be doing well. She has definitely gained a little bit of weight!

Scott, I gotta get one of those. I can't have her pretending to take her meds and then spit them out behind my back. Especially since this one is the one that will help her keep her food down.
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With or without the tool, the trick is to ensure the pill lands at the back of the throat, behind the tongue. I've found that with the cat's head looking up and jaws wide open it's pretty easy to aim for and hit that spot. From there if you close the cat's mouth before letting the head drop, the pill will go down for sure. Just make sure you can actually see the pill resting behind the tongue, if it's elsewhere it will probably come back out.
 
Lance, is there any chance of her choking on it? Last night I used a much smaller sliver after she kept spitting out the larger sliver and it went right down - probably because I managed to do just what you said.
 
woodstock said:
Lance, is there any chance of her choking on it? Last night I used a much smaller sliver after she kept spitting out the larger sliver and it went right down - probably because I managed to do just what you said.
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They can handle a lot. A half tab of pepcid is not a problem. And if you do get it to the back of their tongue they will swallow it.
 
smigaldi said:
They can handle a lot. A half tab of pepcid is not a problem. And if you do get it to the back of their tongue they will swallow it.
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What Scott said. Bigger pills are harder to land in the right spot but the will go down. Heck, most cats can swallow a mouse whole and I've never seen a pill that big. If there's any doubt that the cat has swallowed the pill after getting it behind the tongue, stroking the cat's throat gently while holding their mouth shut will trigger a swallow (and usually comfort the cat).
 
Lance and Scott - thanks so much, I got it right this morning and it went down with nary a fuss. I don't think she even knew what happened - gulp, down it went.

(I'm adding London photos to the very first post, as I sort them - this thread won't top by just editing.)
 
woodstock said:
Lance and Scott - thanks so much, I got it right this morning and it went down with nary a fuss. I don't think she even knew what happened - gulp, down it went.
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Good that you are getting cooperation.

My brother had a cat that would fight tooth and nail when he and his wife tried to give it the daily pill. But, one day I was over there, being a smartass (who me?), and I said "you are doing it the hard way - just roll the pill across the floor and tell the cat to eat it." So, I roll the pill across the floor and to everyone's surprise, the cat went after it and ate it on his own. Really.
 
Capt. Geoffrey Thorpe said:
Good that you are getting cooperation.

My brother had a cat that would fight tooth and nail when he and his wife tried to give it the daily pill. But, one day I was over there, being a smartass (who me?), and I said "you are doing it the hard way - just roll the pill across the floor and tell the cat to eat it." So, I roll the pill across the floor and to everyone's surprise, the cat went after it and ate it on his own. Really.
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I actually tried that with one cat. He would chase the pill, pick it up and spit it out. Another thing I tried was to "hide" it in canned food. The cats would always manage to eat the food and leave the pill.
 
Welcome back, Beth - nice pictures. Hope you had decent weather.
 
You can't fool a cat or dog into taking some nasty big pill- you have to get it between two fingers and stick it right down the throat, past the tongue. Hold the mouth shut and rub the throat gently after, then apologize. :D
I usually follow up a pill for Peg with a little treat so she knows I'm really sorry.
 
smigaldi said:
The piller makes that a much nicer event.
http://www.amazon.com/Pet-Piller-Si...1?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1235079504&sr=8-1
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What do you do? Shoot it down the back of their throat?

I'm lucky my cats have never been that sick. They resisted all forms - even burying it in wet cat food, which they otherwise think is the greatest stuff on the planet. Maybe they figured out they only get it when I've got to bury medicine.

Anyway, my approach is to try to give it to them, and if they spit it out, that's their tough luck.:D
 
flyersfan31 said:
What do you do? Shoot it down the back of their throat?
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You load the pill in the end of the piller and push the whole thing towards the back of the cat's throat. Pushing the plunger just releases the pill, it does not shoot out. This thing is easier because you do not have to place you fingers in the cats mouth and force the jaw open. Just touching a cats jaw will sometime get them to open their mouth enough to push the piller to right spot.
 
With my dogs, any pill rolled in a small ball of cheese goes down quickly!
Don't know if your cat can be fooled but my dogs love cheese.
 
That little stinker held it in her mouth for several minutes again this morning. I thought I had it down the right way, she swallowed, acted normal, wandered around, then I got out her food (hand feeding now for this one!) and as soon as she opened her mouth to start eating the pill fell onto the plate. argh! So, back to the drawing board and I think it went down this time.
 
woodstock said:
That little stinker held it in her mouth for several minutes again this morning. I thought I had it down the right way, she swallowed, acted normal, wandered around, then I got out her food (hand feeding now for this one!) and as soon as she opened her mouth to start eating the pill fell onto the plate. argh! So, back to the drawing board and I think it went down this time.
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They are smart little buggers!!
 
gprellwitz said:
One of the differences between cats and dogs. Cats don't fall for tricks like this!:nono:
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I have used the sound of cans being opened to lure that cats into a room so that I can grab them and put them in a carrier to take to the vets. The look of betrayal that I get could kill!!

There are ways to trick cats. But dog's are such simple creatures that is not hard to prey upon them.
 
smigaldi said:
I have used the sound of cans being opened to lure that cats into a room so that I can grab them and put them in a carrier to take to the vets. The look of betrayal that I get could kill!!

There are ways to trick cats. But dog's are such simple creatures that is not hard to prey upon them.
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When I take Ophelia to the carrier room (the laundry room) she knows the minute I pick her up and start walking downstairs that she is going to be in that loathsome contraption and if a cat could howl, that is what she does. Such heartrending noises, you'd think I was scalping her. It gets worse as I open the door to the laundry room (one handed grasp on her) and then the close the door behind me she really is unhappy. The funny thing is, for as much as she hates that carrier she is only too happy to get back into it to come home.
 
I can say from experience that those pillers help in administering medication to animals. Getting sheep to take their worm pills without them is damn near impossible.
 
woodstock said:
When I take Ophelia to the carrier room (the laundry room) she knows the minute I pick her up and start walking downstairs that she is going to be in that loathsome contraption and if a cat could howl, that is what she does. Such heartrending noises, you'd think I was scalping her. It gets worse as I open the door to the laundry room (one handed grasp on her) and then the close the door behind me she really is unhappy. The funny thing is, for as much as she hates that carrier she is only too happy to get back into it to come home.
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That is funny how they do that.

Venus gets anal gland cloggage. The room of terror where I take her to express those glands gets similar howls.
 
woodstock said:
When I take Ophelia to the carrier room (the laundry room) she knows the minute I pick her up and start walking downstairs that she is going to be in that loathsome contraption and if a cat could howl, that is what she does. Such heartrending noises, you'd think I was scalping her. It gets worse as I open the door to the laundry room (one handed grasp on her) and then the close the door behind me she really is unhappy. The funny thing is, for as much as she hates that carrier she is only too happy to get back into it to come home.
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When I brought our cats home (they were sisters), in the same cat carrier, I swore one of them ate the other on the way home. The yowling from one and complete silence from the other had me fooled just enough to think it was a plausible scenario!:yikes:
 
stapler101 said:
With my dogs, any pill rolled in a small ball of cheese goes down quickly!
Don't know if your cat can be fooled but my dogs love cheese.
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Mine, it was butter. He didn't care about anything except having the privilege of eating "people food." :)
 
Her Majesty gained 11 ounces in just a tad over two weeks! The new food and the slivers of pepcid AC every other day are really helping.
 
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