I thought seafood flavor would be better than the “chicken marshmallow” they gave him last time. He’s letting me know how entirely wrong I was in that choice.
To be fair, it smells awful. I’d probably make the same face.
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Yeah, if you let he know you're going to pill her she makes herself foam at the mouth so you can't give her the pill.
Liquid form is better, and with practice you can be pretty fast.
With pills even if we do get her to take it then she starts avoiding us and it just sucks for everyone.
My ancient kitty expects treats at bedtime, so I have tried to teach her she gets a pill then treats at bedtime. She doesn't run away because she knows treats are coming, but she'll try to spit the pill out if I don't manage to drop it right where her tongue meets her throat.
She can get this one in liquid form to mix into liquid treats, but then the rest of my zoo gets jealous and I can't have that xD
Pliny and Taco Bob are both getting up there in age. The problem with Pliny is that he isn’t food motivated. I can sometimes give him churu treats, but he mainly just wants to be pet and loved.
I hate that he starts to associate me with “cat torture time” after he’s been on the meds for a few weeks. Wish I could bribe him with treats.
Cats have better clocks than we give them credit for. If part of petting and loving is brushing, it might help to start brushing him at a given time every day before moving to meds and brushing. My kitty is 15 now, but the addition of meds to bed routine started maybe a year and a half ago.
She is currently pawing and sighing at me because I hyper fixated and missed her usual bedtime xD