Pill Shooter

[Witchyone]

I've got to get 2 lots of tablets down our cat twice a day. He is being extremely uncooperative at the moment. Anyone any ideas how to make this job easier ?

[GypsyGSD]

I always crush tablet in a bit of tuna , it always works with my 3 GypsyX

[B00]

Can't help at all, but I thought you might appreciate this :-)

http://www.ahajokes.com/ani051.html

[Quizmonster]

Get a pill-popper from the vet...it looks vaguely like a plastic syringe and you put the pill into the jaws of the device and push the plunger gently against it, ready to 'fire' it.
Then - if you're right-handed - put the cat on your left thigh with a towel around its neck like a barber's cloth, closed at the back with a clothes-peg. This frees both your hands and, more to the point, keeps its feet and claws out of the equation!
Then gently press the cat back into the crook of your left arm and place your left hand across its head with fingers and thumb on opposite sides of its mouth. By compressing these, you will force the cat to open its mouth and - when it does - just squeeze the pill-popper plunger with your right hand to shoot the pill far back into its mouth.
Might sound complicated but it works every time for me.

[sambro]

It is difficult to disguise pills in food if all your cats will eat is dry food. I use Logic toothpaste on my cats every night. I dont brush their teeth. It is enzymetic and stops tartar build up. It is very palatable and they love it. So if i have to give them any pills I crush the pill into a very very fine powder between 2 teaspoons then mix in the toothpaste. Works every time.No stress no wrestling, they think its a treat as they love the toothpaste

[gelda]

Try chicken paste, I've used this with several cats I've looked after and it's always worked.

[iheartruby]

Another option is to crush it to fine powder, mix with butter, then smear on cat's paw - they will almost certainly lick it of and therefor ingest tablet. But PLEASE check with vet that it's ok to crush them first - some tabs are not meant to be.

[lizzydrippin]

Thanks Boo for putting that link on about the Cat Pill giving. It is so funny and it was only earlier today I was telling someone about it (after we were talking about what a nightmare it is trying to give a cat a pill) She'd never heard it before so I said I'd try and get a copy from somewhere, and bobs yer uncle I put answerbank on and there it was, cheers!

[firegirl]

The easiest(!) way I have found is to get help from another person, one person to hold the cat still and press the sides of the mouth which will make him/her open it then the other person to drop the pill down the throat (not on the tongue or he/she will spit it out)