Can you snip the rubber band with a small scissors? Be sure to shield your and your cat's eyes. I'm just guessing, I've never had to do this.
You can kind of sneak up when the cat is sleeping. I had to do that to clip one of my cat's claws.
Turns out what he's been getting is the chicken flavored. I'm going to try another flavor, but I'm not so hopeful now; it may be the underlying medicine is just too bitter to cover up.
Thank you!
I just got off the phone with my cat's vet and there is a local pharmacist who can make it chicken-flavored! So I'm going to try that. Poor Sebastian, I wish I had known this from the start - but hopefully this will go over much better with him.
Thank you, everyone, for your advice...
Donutte, Where do you go to have meds compounded into a treat? I didn't even know that was possible!
Thank you so much for all the tips. Hopefully, there will be another med he can take. He'll still hate it, just because he hates taking meds, but at least maybe he won't hate me anymore...
It's Diltiazem.
I'm so sorry about your Lucky.
My cat's name is Sebastian. Up until the vet put him on this medication, he was a happy cat. He'd usually hang out with me - especially since my other 17 year old cat who was my shadow died in June - now he hides. He did the daily zoom thing. And...
The vet put my 17 year old cat on heart medication, which he despises. To me, it just smells very vaguely like celery, but it must taste awful to him and it makes him drool like crazy.
I got him as a rescue when he was 1 and it took a long time to get him to trust me. In his old age, he turned...
I called the vet's office and the vet said it's okay to give him just one dropper of heart med at double the dosage, so that helps (me) a lot. He's going to hate it anyway......
My 17 year old cat whom I love to pieces started on heart meds today. He's supposed to get two daily doses. He already gets a couple of doses of a med to help him not have rock-hard stools that he can't pass. I'm waiting on his kidney results (the vet already knows he has kidney disease but has...
Primula, thank you SO much for that info. It's very helpful. I feel okay with him having diagnostic stuff just under sedation, but putting him totally under with anesthesia for dental work at this point really scares me.
I'm so sorry about your cat.
Thank you again.
Hi. I just lost one beloved 17 year old cat in June. I took my other 17 year old for a checkup and the vet found a heart murmur and enlarged heart
(I think the left lobe?) and the blood panel revealed anemia and possibly the very early stage of kidney disease. My cat hates going to the vet -...
I'm just guessing but maybe some animal thing where they become prey if they're sick. Or maybe they experience pain differently? I honestly don't know.
http://www.thecatsite.com/t/237066/when-the-moment-comes
The above is lovely and I think has helped many people here.
To paraphrase a friend of mine, We do the best we can and love our animals to high heaven.
What you are going through is a normal part of grieving, and usually comes with the...