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Originally Posted by mymorgy
thanks for the other videos...did you see this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIyfNM6y3vU
about a furious cat who has to be treated.
then there was one where the older vet drooled in the cat's mouth to make sure the pill went down.
yesterday was an ordeal. I waited and waited for cecilia to come. my friend robert who knows how to pill a cat was coming over after five and i wrote him and asked if he could pill abby. then i thought of my friend Joyce who is a petite woman telling me that two of her twenty maine coon cats might have had a urinary infection so she restrained them with her arm around their neck and then pilled them. I forced myself to try that and i think it worked before she broke away from me.
today she is wet a little. I wonder if it is from the infection which the antibiotics at this time should have healed it or her kidney disease.
your kitty cat sounded like a real tiger. i can't believe you got it down so you could wrap her in one minute.
cecilia called me at five to come over. she said she just got back. I had written her to tell her abby was pilled but if she could come over today.
she thought she told me that she would be away. she hadn't. I told her i really needed her.
robert showed me how to take pictures with the cell phone and blue tooth to my computer. I am going to try to take a ton of pictures of abby.
I am sorry this is such a boring post.
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bobby |
dear Bobby, your post isn't boring... it is good to hear what is going on with you.
Yes, I saw the angry cat one, lol. I didn't know a cat muzzle existed! I did not see the one that drooled into the kitty's mouth! Ewww, poor cat!
The angry cat vet says something to the effect that you want to do things as quickly as you can... that's something we leearned also with our cat. She could be very fierce. She was not normally so, but if she felt she needed to defend herself from any sort of coercion... then watch out.
I had never known about the trick to grab the head and push down on their shoulders... or if we did we probably failed at it. It looks so easy when they do it... but I didn't see them trying those maneuvers with the angry cat.
So yeah, the wrapping is actually very easy and very swift and takes about 15 seconds, once you get the process down. Giving the pill and getting cat to swallow was the the rest. It is really only three movements: fold from one side, fold from other side, and then fold in rear paws. (In fact, being very fast is the key to success.... otherwise the cat has time to react, and get away.) Despite the unnatural position, it seemed to be less traumatic on her because things were over and done with fast, and there was no real struggle. In any case, she would high-tail it soon as we freed her -- no chance to "reward the cat" by petting, ROFLOL, but we did offer her treats. (She usually snubbed the treats and yowled by the door to be let out.)
At the vet's she did not try to run... she would only try to hide. I think because she felt unsafe with all the weird smells, between the hospital-like smell, and dogs in the waiting room. Once she hid her face in the vet's coat, lol. Another time, she jumped up from the table, scaled me like a tree trunk, and tucked her head under my chin. (That hurt... 20 razor-sharp claws! But soon as I supported her rear, she retracted them.)
If at home... where she knew the environment and felt safe indoors and outdoors, she would hide, sure, but only after running as far as she could. The bit in the funny file about "retrieve cat from behind couch... bedroom (under kingsize bed)... top of wardrobe"... been there, done that. Not easy, and cat gets progressively more furious. Went through lots of soggy pills.
Our cat went through health problems a few times, and then later in life more, so we got a lot of practice and eventually found a process that worked for us/our cat.
I hope you can find a process for you and Abby as well. It's good that you have a few friends you can call on to help you.
We had to do it with two people for a long time. In the beginning, the cat was too fast for just one person, lol.
Do take pictures. I look forward to seeing them if you would like to share.
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waves ... umm, sorry for going on and on with my cat tales.