Can anyone help me figure out a way to make a liquid medication taste better? I have two cats on Atopica liquid and apparently from the way they act it tastes horrible. They hate it with a passion, they start sticking their tongues out and trying to spit it out when I give it to them.
It's gotten to the point where Mr Grey doesn't even come around near me most of the time anymore, and when he does come by me if I try to pet him or even put my hands near his face WITHOUT the medication, he starts making faces like he's trying to spit stuff out! This is now going on any time I put my hands near him even if I am not trying to give medication and have not touched the medication at all! That's how much he hates it.
So I am trying to figure out a way to make it taste better, hide it, or mask it.
Any suggestions? He has allergies so I have to be careful what I feed, we are pretty sure he's allergic to chicken and possibly turkey, my vet said to not give fish either, although I don't know for sure if he is allergic to fish...
I can't do compounding for the medication because we had already tried that in order to be able to use a generic form which was less expensive, and there was a problem with it, the medication would crystallize onto the bottom of the bottle and then stop being effective so I had to end up switching to the "name brand" Atopica liquid instead, which has been working and has not been having the crystallizing issue-- so apparently it was the compounding that did it.
I thought about trying to put it into pill pockets, but I am afraid it wouldn't work being a liquid, it would leak out or they would still taste it?
I'm not sure if there is something like some type of liquid I could mix it with that would be strong enough to mask the taste?
It's gotten to the point where Mr Grey doesn't even come around near me most of the time anymore, and when he does come by me if I try to pet him or even put my hands near his face WITHOUT the medication, he starts making faces like he's trying to spit stuff out! This is now going on any time I put my hands near him even if I am not trying to give medication and have not touched the medication at all! That's how much he hates it.
So I am trying to figure out a way to make it taste better, hide it, or mask it.
Any suggestions? He has allergies so I have to be careful what I feed, we are pretty sure he's allergic to chicken and possibly turkey, my vet said to not give fish either, although I don't know for sure if he is allergic to fish...
I can't do compounding for the medication because we had already tried that in order to be able to use a generic form which was less expensive, and there was a problem with it, the medication would crystallize onto the bottom of the bottle and then stop being effective so I had to end up switching to the "name brand" Atopica liquid instead, which has been working and has not been having the crystallizing issue-- so apparently it was the compounding that did it.
I thought about trying to put it into pill pockets, but I am afraid it wouldn't work being a liquid, it would leak out or they would still taste it?
I'm not sure if there is something like some type of liquid I could mix it with that would be strong enough to mask the taste?