Y'all are probably gonna laugh, but it works!
This morning, when I was trying to give Geronimo his FIP meds, he managed to shut his mouth - just when I was starting to squirt it down his throat, and it got all over the counter. I knew if I let him out of my grasp to refill the syringe, he would take off, and I wouldn't be able to catch him again, and I was kinda in a hurry to give it to him b/c we were expecting company to drop by to visit, and I knew he'd take off when our company was here b/c he always runs and hides whenever someone comes over. So instead of refilling the syringe, I took his paw and rubbed it in the stuff that dribbled onto the counter, b/c I knew that he'd lick it off his paw - we all know how cats can't stand to be "dirty". It worked!
As soon as I let him go, off he went to clean the stuff off his paw! Without realizing it, he ended up getting his dreaded meds after all!
I probably won't give him his meds this way on a regular basis, but from now on, if I have any problems trying to get it down his throat, I'll do whatever it takes to accomplish the task!
It may not be the "conventional" way of administering liquid meds to a cat, but if it works, what harm can it do?!
At least he got it!!!
KittKatt
This morning, when I was trying to give Geronimo his FIP meds, he managed to shut his mouth - just when I was starting to squirt it down his throat, and it got all over the counter. I knew if I let him out of my grasp to refill the syringe, he would take off, and I wouldn't be able to catch him again, and I was kinda in a hurry to give it to him b/c we were expecting company to drop by to visit, and I knew he'd take off when our company was here b/c he always runs and hides whenever someone comes over. So instead of refilling the syringe, I took his paw and rubbed it in the stuff that dribbled onto the counter, b/c I knew that he'd lick it off his paw - we all know how cats can't stand to be "dirty". It worked!
I probably won't give him his meds this way on a regular basis, but from now on, if I have any problems trying to get it down his throat, I'll do whatever it takes to accomplish the task!
KittKatt