Poor Maggie. She’s been having some digestive issues of late and the vet has given us a round of pills to sort her out. So for the next week, we have to poke a pill down her throat twice a day. This is bad enough, but if we don’t get it down the first time and the coating comes off, the pill makes her froth at the mouth. It is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in quite a while. My poor, beautiful, delicate cat with this giant head of foam around her mouth, glaring balefully at everything that moves. Oooooh she hates us, she does.
The “B” side to the “Ray of Sunshine” video perhaps?
To pill our cat “Poki” required a crew of three. One person to hold her, one to open her jaw, and one to toss the pill on the back of her tongue. Our sympathies to baleful Maggie.
-e-: It has gone through my head. Alas, my webcam is in the shop with my computer.
momk: Yes, Rob’s experience with Poki is coming in quite handy. This morning I have to try to pill Maggie by myself, since he’s off at the winery. I’m using the towel method to help imobilize her in swaddling clothes. It adds an air of The Mummy to the whole experience.
Can you embed the pill in something she’d want to eat? (not that that hadn’t already occurred to you …) We used cheese for our dog.
Sadly, no. She’s a nibbler and would notice the pill. This is where it’s handy that dogs swallow things whole.
I dunno, my dog is expert at eating the cheese and spitting out the pill.
If Maggie is a nibbler, maybe you could just leave her pill lying around on the kitchen floor, and she’ll snarf it up all all by herself,(providing there’s a bit of appealing flavor to it). At least this method worked with our cat Pueo.
I’m thinking that since it makes her froth at the mouth that the flavor is not so appealing.