10/21 Raja AMPS=110

[Pat+Raja+Shadow (GA)]

10/20
AMPS=85 ~S.25u Lev
+4=111
+8=75
PMPS=107 ~S.25u Lev
+4=89
+8=96
AMPS=110 ~S.25u Lev

Yesterday
Morning. Raja has 3 Ps so far today. She is keeping things interesting around here. As if Shadow's illness isn't enough to keep me buys...she is getting her pulse therapy with Clindamyacin now. I didn't think it would be THAT bad to have to dose her once a day. But, true to form, she has other thoughts about it. She absoluteoly abhors this stuff and she squirms and backs up and does all that she can to get away from me.

She has slso developed a new strategy when I am successful in getting the syringe into her mouth...she opens wide and salivates as much as she can so it ALL just falls out of her mouth. She is SO smart!! Her body goes limp and her mouth opens wide and she hangs her head down...she is one tough cookie. Now, i know full well that I am incapable of doing the "right thing"....I KNOW that without her pointing it out to me ALL the time! I am NOT qulaified to be a cat owner oh...I mean to work on a cat's staff! Especially a ROYAL CAT's staff......
I should have gotten a DOG. :-|
But, it's too late now...15 years too late.
Hope you all have a good day....

 

[tortie58]

Oh Raja! You're so naughty! Medi is good for you, must take it!
Pls dont think you are not a good mumbean Pat, some cats are difficult to give med. Ive 21 cats, I can tell you some are impossible with giving med. I am lucky that my sugar kitty is the good natured one. Pills is always easier than syrup.

 

[CD and BigMac]

Oh Raja! I can just picture that maneuver she is doing to get that clindamyacin out of her mouth. Yuck.
I have heard it tastes awful. :-x

When I gave a/b to Cappi and BigMac I used the pills instead of liquid. Although it isn't fun to pill a cat, I was much more successful at it compared with the spitting and drooling that happened when I tried liquids. I used a pill popper...which doesn't actually pop. It is more like an extension that holds the pill until you push it into the mouth. Much safer than using your fingers to shove a pill way in to the back of the mouth. If the kitty bites down on the pill popper no one gets hurt.

I also tried the pill pockets which worked the first time and then BigMac figured out what was going on and carefully chewed around his pill and spit it out. So I went back to poking his pills on the back of his tongue as quickly as I could and stroking his throat. That worked the best for us.

No fun, no matter what method you choose. Especially if your kitty is big and strong. Ahem...Raja! ohmygod_smile

Best of luck!

 

[Pat+Raja+Shadow (GA)]

Yes, she IS big boned! LOL!! BUT, she retreats and then ponders the dilema for hours and hours. She plots her strategy. She never stops thinking!! :lol: She has her own strategies for pills too so no matter what I do with her, there is hell to pay! LMHO!!

 

[Ann & Maggie11 (GA)]

Oh boy, Raja, I didn't know you were that sneaky with the saliva and meds. :YMSIGH: How about just dreaming it's a niptuni and down the hatch it goes. I have a problem with pills for Mags. Her numbers are really good.

 

[Anne&Muffin (GA)]

Oh my, Pat, I can so relate to what you're going thru. Muffin used to the same things when I'd try to pill her - foam at the mouth, drool flying everywhere, spitting out the pill - even with a pill popper. Now, tho, for some reason (most likely the turkey treat she gets afterwards) she takes her daily denamarin quite nicely and easily. I don't even have to hold her mouth closed. I just drop it in her mouth and let her deal with it, and she swallows it right down. Kibby, on the other hand, is next to impossible to medicate. It takes 2 people even to put his monthly flea meds on! :lol: