I'm done waterboarding my cat.

[noamnety]

Cats are NOT made to swallow pills.

I just received a new version of her medication that's in ointment form to rub in her ears. :)

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. Mouse-flavored medicine.

I don't know why it hasn't happened.

[zanana1]

2. Or mouse-flavored cat food. nt

[SoxFan]

3. Tuna pills

One of mine was mooching my Taco Bell chalupa at lunch this afternoon, so who knows what a cat will eat!

[noamnety]

5. That would be a godsend.

I swear, she can spit pills farther than the best watermelon seed spitting champion I've ever seen.

[Old Troop]

4. Did she finally break and spill her guts?

[noamnety]

6. nope

cat's still got her tongue. :)

[BrklynLiberal]

7. feline pill pockets....maybe

http://www.amazon.com/Greenies-Pill-Pockets-Salmon-ounce/dp/B000JOE224

[noamnety]

8. That would probably work if she was a normal cat

She's anorexic (just over 5 pounds at 18 years) and has never once eaten a cat treat, she hates them. Since she's gotten old, the food's been more of an adventure - she's stopped eating dry food maybe because of lost teeth, and won't eat the canned stuff either. For a while I was making raw meat smoothies with evaporated milk for her, then she stopped eating that. Then raw liver - but only if it's chopped fine, which pisses me off because if she can catch a bird she will still chomp that up without my cutting it up for her. :(

[jp11]

9. Um, I don't know how to say this but...

I think you have some wild cat as a pet, does she sometimes tear up your furniture, friends and relatives? Does her roar send a shiver up your or anyone else's spine, cause I think that might be a cougar or a bobcat.

[noamnety]

12. I wonder if that's the problem.

I tried googling ferocious cougar to see if the pictures match, but all I got was a photo of Sharon Stone. :shrug:

[BrklynLiberal]

11. awwwwwwwwwww She is you little baby...

[tabbycat31]

21. try baby food

my 17 yo skinny cat LOVES turkey flavored baby food (Gerber or Beech Nut).

As for medicine-- we get chicken flavored liquid and it's a two person effort to get it in him.

[MiddleFingerMom]

10. CLOSE DOWN KITMO NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

[noamnety]

13. LMAO (nt)

[kimi]

14. Kitmo!!

That's good!! :rofl:

I'm stealing that.

[Ikonoklast]

15. After putting the pill in her throat, immediately blow in her face.

Her reaction will be to sqint her eyes, lay back her ears, and swallow all at the same time.

[noamnety]

16. I tried that!

Her reaction was to blow back in my face - with the most godawful you-can't-scare-me-I've-been-eating-raw-liver-and-not-brushing-my-teeth breath you could ever imagine. It was toxic. And still not effective at getting her to swallow.

[Ikonoklast]

17. So, you admit defeat, do you?

Kitties can wear you down with sheer stubbornness and the patience of a statue.

[Curmudgeoness]

18. Pet Pockets. I do not endorse products often, but these really worked

for me, at least for a couple of weeks. The cat did not get wise too quickly, but sadly, it happened.

[petronius]

19. I once had to feed my cat with a syringe for 6 weeks, several times a day

He didn't like it, and even if you avoided the claws and the teeth, one small squeeze to far would bring the whole serving right back up in a vomitsplosion. After that, pilling seems like a cakewalk...

[denbot]

20. A tip my wife brought home from Best Friends Animal Sanctuary.

Baby food. The sanctuary crushes medicine into baby food and spoon feeds even the most obnoxious kitty.
My daughter got a rubber tipped baby spoon and some baby food and our cats flop-down and allow themselves to be spoon fed. Weird, but effective. BTW They love chicken and vegetables.

[noamnety]

22. I was crushing them for a while and mixing them into food.

That started okay for a few weeks but then she picked up on a weird smell or taste and refused to eat. I went through a few days of mixing maple syrup into thickened milk, under the theory that pets love radiator fluid because it tastes like syrup. My husband suggested just mixing it with the radiator fluid itself - but I think he may have had ulterior motives. :D

Trying to balance the need for pills with the need to get some food into her. She went a couple days boycotting food altogether, she's already complete skin and bones.