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Jcat,  Thank you so much for all your help! I'm pleased to report that Teela is taking her pill now. We've found that crushing it and hiding it in cat-gravy and paste (she loves the salmon and beef pastes) hides it well and she takes it without  a problem. We alternate, a new flavour every day...

Hi Jcat, Thank you for your answer. I'll ask the vet about the flavoured pills, but we're in the UK, and I think they just use human meds in smaller doses over here. Ditto, the liverwurst. A quick check around supermarkets online has revealed no stockists. I've made cheese parcels with the pill...

P.S. It's probably obvious from the message above, but I've been grinding Teela's medication to powder to make it easier to hide. Additionally (and I know you shouldn't postscript a postscript, but the thought just occurred to me), if it is unsafe to give a cat even a few grains of sugar, can...

Hi all, I'm new to the Cat Site, but our cat is elderly. Teela is 16 and she's been diagnosed with a heart murmur and hypertropic cardiomyopathy (causing a thickened left ventricle). She's been prescribed benazepril (an ACE inhibitor) and frusemide (a diuretic).  Teela's taking the Frusemide...