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Cat Health & Behaviour => Health & Behaviour General => Topic started by: Pinkbear (Julie) on September 16, 2007, 01:15:59 AM
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He used to be so good about taking his tablets, but this past couple of weeks, none of my tricks work. :tired:
I've tried wrapping them in cheese, ham, chicken, and as many kinds of pliable treats I can find. He seems to know there's a pill in there and won't go anywhere near it... >:( Meanwhile, I am having to keep shoving Tilly out the way because she wants to eat them instead.. :shify:
These Pills are coated because they are unpalatable, so grinding them and sprinkling them might not work either - but that's me next step.
Has anyone got any tips? Can't seem to find any advice on Purrs about this subject. :shy:
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There is a list somewhere of somes tips for all the things you can hid pills in but dont know what thread it was ........oh wait a min I jave idea :rofl:
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Hmmm.. I know! :innocent:
After 4 months of the Webbox stuff 4 times a day, he just won't touch it anymore. :(
I hope I solve this one easily, because my Henry passed away through not taking his tablets. And I tried everything to get him to take them - he scratched me to bits, so much so that the neighbours called the Police as they thought I was being battered by OH. :shify: Thankfully, Jumpy is more even tempered. But I can't stand the thought of this daily battle to keep him alive... it's not fair on either of us. :'(
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There was a thread but cant find it.........it was a list of things you could do by Tiggy, Susanne, Milly or someone like that.
You can buy little pocket treats to hid em in but dont know where or what they called.
Sure one of the knowing people will read this tomorrow :hug: :hug:
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This may be the link you were after ;)
http://www.purrsinourhearts.co.uk/index.php?topic=5024.msg77216;topicseen#bot
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Have you tried pill pockets? If it is a battle, you might have to weigh up the benefits of him having the tablets, as hard as that sounds.
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Hi Lily cat & :welcome: to Purrs
Sorry to hear Imogen is poorly :hug: I don't have any experience of heart failure but I do have lots of experience in giving tablets the 'sly' way! My cat Tiggy had well over 2000 tablets during the last 4 years of her life, only twice did I have to resort to 'reasonable force'!
For the last two years when she was having 5 tablets a day my main methods were 1 & 2 below (with no 2 being less sticky!), if she were feeling off colour I had to resort to one of the other methods. One of the tablets she had was Fortekor (for CRF not heart failure) so the tips definitely work with that shape/size of tablet.
1) Primula Cheese in a tube (Chs, Chs & Ham, Chs & Prawn but NOT chs & chive), also works with Dairylea triangles, laughing cow etc, just cut a small chunk off.. Place tablet on finger, squirt a blob of Primula on, Tiggy licked it off, tablet and all.
2 De-furrum treats (available from places like Pets at Home, Jollyes etc) they are designed for hairballs. When snapped in half there is a gooey mix which holds the tablet perfectly when you poke it in. Tiggy loved these and hoovered them up.
3) Wafer thin ham (Bernard Matthews is best as is nice and moist and sticks to itself when folded over). Wrap tablet in small parcel and hand feed, the tablet may fall out the first time so I roll up in another piece and keep going. Wafer thin Beef or Chicken is also effective.
4) Cheddar Cheese, experiment with varieties but the moister the better. Shave of a thinnish layer and squish around the tablet.
5) Chicken breast, don't overcook, needs to be nice and moist. Shave a thinnish layer and again squish around tablet.
6) Tuna, squeeze most of the juiceout and squish around tablet.
7) For powdered meds: Beef sandwich paste (check ingredients NO onion or garlic) mix with a little hot water to make a yummy beefy paste.
From the link Ruth posted to... 1 & 2 are almost foolproof and only failed if Tiggy was feeling too nauseous to eat (which is what one tablets hidden in something yummy was for - she didn't know what was good for her :innocent:)
Both Lucas and Riley have had a course of antibiotics using Dairylea with no problems at all and they have their Drontal tablet hidden in Dairylea too.
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Thanks, everybody. ;D :hug:
I'm going to try Dairylea and see if that does any good. ;)
The Defurum treats - the little :censored: turned his nose up at those too! :-[
He is already starting to cough again, which means his lungs are filling up with fluid because he won't have his water tablet. The silly little :censored: He could have them wrapped in gold leaf if he's just blinkin' swollow them! :'(
Hey-ho! :shy:
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Hope you can get him to have his tabs soon,my two older cats have always been terrible to have their tabs,I have top use spot ons for everything now :'(
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Pill pockets are available from Vet-uk
http://www.vetuk.co.uk/index.php?main_page=advanced_search_result&search_in_description=1&zenid=a5ff504e93733ff712e307adf1b2b23d&keyword=pill+pockets
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Hmmm.. I know! :innocent:
After 4 months of the Webbox stuff 4 times a day, he just won't touch it anymore. :(
I hope I solve this one easily, because my Henry passed away through not taking his tablets. And I tried everything to get him to take them - he scratched me to bits, so much so that the neighbours called the Police as they thought I was being battered by OH. :shify: Thankfully, Jumpy is more even tempered. But I can't stand the thought of this daily battle to keep him alive... it's not fair on either of us. :'(
Sorry I am of no help I know but that part made me laugh :rofl:
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I hope the dairylea works.
This topic is so useful :wow: my older cats are impossible with tablets, wish i'd discovered this info earlier :doh:
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Defurums only work here if i top them off with more malt paste :evillaugh:
Does jumpy like raw food? My lot will swallow cubed steak with minimal chewing so i make a hole in it with scisscors and slot the pill in.
It depends on the drug but could you grind it, mix with a little water and squirt in his mouth? It wont taste nice but would do in the short term while you figure out another plan. Do check they are not an irritant or slow release type tho.
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I find that butter, or even margerine, is popular, but you need to check that the pill has gone down and not been eaten around. Sonia has 3 pills a day and, at the moment, putting it in food with gravy works, but every now and then I have to change tactics!
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Clapton loves chicken so much that I wrap his pill oin Mattesons wafer thin chicken or turkey. I don't eat that kind of thing so I buy their small "2 sandwich" packs from Tesco for 65p - lasts 3 days. The best I have found is prosiutto (sp) as it sticks to itself so they can't see or smell the pill.
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Just gave our three their worming tabs before, did try it with a bit of butter this time Sabre took two goes but done it in the end :scared: Our Chris had to hold them :scared:
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We had lamb yesterday, so I managed to hide the pills in a bit of lamb fat last night, but that's run out now.
Off to get some Dairylea
:sigh:
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We had lamb yesterday, so I managed to hide the pills in a bit of lamb fat last night, but that's run out now.
Off to get some Dairylea
:sigh:
Can I have a dairylea and tomato sandwich pls and a cup of tea? ta :evillaugh:
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Well, the little :censored: won't eat Dairylea either... :Crazy: :scared:
The only option left is to crush them in his cat food. I hope the taste of the coated one doesn't stop him eating that now! :shify:
Right from the time he was a kitten, he's tried every trick in the book to wind me up! :P
Anyone want a cat...? :evillaugh:
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Well, the little :censored: won't eat Dairylea either... :Crazy: :scared:
The only option left is to crush them in his cat food. I hope the taste of the coated one doesn't stop him eating that now! :shify:
Right from the time he was a kitten, he's tried every trick in the book to wind me up! :P
Anyone want a cat...? :evillaugh:
Yes please,I'll sweap him with my sisters GSD do you mind? :evillaugh:
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Honestly Julie, I tried everything but the wafer-thin turkey or chicken works well with clapton as you can seal the tablet in it. 65p a pack in Tesco (2 sandwich size mattessons)
I naively tried the pill-giver with kylie when I got her. and she fought tooth & nail. Eventually I gave up and put a pill on the floor which she assumed was a treat :evillaugh:
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Okay, I'll give the turkey stuff a go, then. ;)
Why doesn't he have Tilly's tastes? I have to fight her off when I'm trying to get the tablets inside him. :tired:
One thing I am determined, though, is that his last months won't be remembered as a constant struggle to medicate him. I still cry when I think of Henry. He used to love me so much but ended up running whenever I got near him... :'( :'(
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:hug: :hug: :hug: ;)
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Sometimes tablets are coated for reasons other than taste so it would be worth double checking with your vet that they can be crushed ;D
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Well, the little :censored: won't eat Dairylea either... :Crazy: :scared:
:what: Is he crazy? Looks like the turkey is the best bet now then - good luck ;D
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This might sound unlikely, but ice cream goes down well - I've caught all of mine enthusiastically licking bowls clean. I now avoid buying or making certain flavours as a result!
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Pinkbear, you absolutely have my sympathy - I'm waiting for the day someone invents a tablet that really is palatable to cats.
Oh happy, happy day......