I thought seafood flavor would be better than the “chicken marshmallow” they gave him last time. He’s letting me know how entirely wrong I was in that choice.
To be fair, it smells awful. I’d probably make the same face.
Ugh cat medicine is the worst
I adopted shock and awe tactics to minimize trauma to our cat. She hates meds, but if you get really fast you can pill her or give her one of those liquid syringes before she even gets mad.
I had a cat that could not be pilled. You could push that pill down that cat's throat elbow deep and he'd still spit it out. I had this conversation with more than one vet:
"Do you have that medicine in liquid form? You can't pill this cat."
"Oh sure you can, you just have to do it right."
"Okay, demonstrate if you please. Give him a dose and show me how it's done."
"ugh, okay." fails to pill the cat "...Huh. Well..."
"Do you have that medicine in liquid form?"
Yeah, if you let he know you're going to pill her she makes herself foam at the mouth so you can't give her the pill.
Liquid form is better, and with practice you can be pretty fast.
With pills even if we do get her to take it then she starts avoiding us and it just sucks for everyone.
My mother's cat is medicated twice a day. They tried to convince us pills were the only way. We found no, there's medicated ear cream. At the time this meant going to an uncommon compound pharmacy, getting it mixed there, and creaming up her ears. These days, you just order that shit online.
Cats been getting her ears medicated for years now and is way calmer about that.
Well calm for a cat.
Yeah that same cat I was talking about needed thyroid medication that was given to him by ear cream. Compounding pharmacy liked to underdose him by a factor of 10 though; we got at least two batches of that medicine that was something like .01mg when it was supposed to be .1mg. Which was...great.
Oh, the compounding pharmacy we use to use before the internet just hated the fact it was medicine for a cat. He (the pharmacist) liked to complain about how taking time to make this medicine took away time from making more important medicine.
It was not a busy pharmacy. He could take the time to make fucking cat medicine.
Ear cream was the salvation of my relationship with our old cat.
The last time I had to do this for an extended period, he’d start gagging when I got home from work. I wasn’t even on him yet, but he starts associating antibiotic time with me. I feel bad. I just wanna be the chill dude who pets him.
Lol Pliny is a great cat name
lol thank you
How’s his poop? When we fed our late great boi (19) antibiotics, his shit smelled like horror incarnate
lol, even in best of times it’s not great. It’s the slobber that gets me though. He’s running around slobbering on everything for like 20 minutes after antibiotic time, twice a day. Like 25 days left….
Our cat has a chronic sinus issue so she goes through phases of snotting and sneezing on everything
I don’t know how one cat can get so much snot around the house, it’s kind of impressive.
The worst part is she likes being really close to your face and sometimes she wakes you up by sneezing on your face. Ugh.
Pliny is the same way on face. He doesn’t sneeze, but he has very tickly whiskers.
You’ll pay for this h00min! I am cat!
That second photograph got me
Haha, that’s just the start. It keeps going. Everything is slimed. Send help!
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