Medicating Patch Made Easier

I don't know if this is the right place to put this thread. If you've read my other posts Patch (my 1/2 feral boy) is terrible to give pills to. I can't hold him especially since he needs to take it for 6 weeks, he's a monster when I try to do something for him He has a bad staph infection, the Vet needs him to take Baytril. I tried the pills, I've sliced, diced and mashed up the pill in all kinds of wet food, tuna juice, kitten milk, treats, baby food, nothing, I changed to liquid, tried to hide it in everything above, no good, people would tell me he'll eat the food if he's hungry, but we, as cat lovers know, that being hungry will not make them eat anything they don't want to eat. So I have to break down and give him wet food without the Baytrill because he needs a heart medication and a 1/4 low dose aspirin for his enlarged heart, which I have no problem with, its a very small pill and can easily be hidden in his food. Its been a battle of wills between us. He won out. I called the Vet and found out we can give him a transdermal gel. I will take him into the Vet and they will shave a little section on his back and I can apply it there. I never heard of this before, so I'm very excited about this. I wanted to let everyone know that has trouble with pilling their cat this is a great alternative. I've been so upset, not being able to give him his medication. Hopefully I can pull this off. Thanks for reading.

I feel for you! I have always had trouble medicating cats; mine are usually too smart to fall for pill pockets, and pilling them is really difficult. Let us know how the gel works out!

I know the feeling my cat who has a stiched up leg is refusing the double cream with crushed up pill's in it. She is locked in a bac kbedroom as she is not supposed to be wandering around, i keep going up and dabbing some on her mouth and she is licking it off just a bit time consuming luckily the next medication is in syringe form straight into her mouth.

Tonya x

Originally Posted by motoko9

I feel for you! I have always had trouble medicating cats; mine are usually too smart to fall for pill pockets, and pilling them is really difficult. Let us know how the gel works out!

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I will let everyone know how it goes.

Originally Posted by Rubyredgirl

I know the feeling my cat who has a stiched up leg is refusing the double cream with crushed up pill's in it. She is locked in a bac kbedroom as she is not supposed to be wandering around, i keep going up and dabbing some on her mouth and she is licking it off just a bit time consuming luckily the next medication is in syringe form straight into her mouth.

Tonya x

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Good luck with your little one.

Have the vet tape the patch to him. Stumpy had to have a pain patch and he had that thing off in about 5 minutes until we taped it to him. We ultimately had to shave his leg, put on the patch and wrap up his leg with gauze.

Let us know how this goes? I'm not sure that we've had anyone on the site talk about using this before.

Originally Posted by Momofmany

Have the vet tape the patch to him. Stumpy had to have a pain patch and he had that thing off in about 5 minutes until we taped it to him. We ultimately had to shave his leg, put on the patch and wrap up his leg with gauze.

Let us know how this goes? I'm not sure that we've had anyone on the site talk about using this before.

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Its not really a patch its a gel that I have to rub in. Knowing my little boy he'd have a patch off in a minute. I ill let everyone know how it works. If it does work that will eliminate a lot of frustration for everyone concerned.