I will try to get a picture of catpig soon!
― kanye shiwen (dayo), Saturday, 18 August 2012 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
carl agatha otm. redirect.
― contenderizer, Saturday, 18 August 2012 05:37 (eleven years ago) link
u better xp. i imagine him with not only sleek fur & chub, but a snout.
― contenderizer, Saturday, 18 August 2012 05:41 (eleven years ago) link
but it's right next to the bathtub! there is another spot she used to like in the corner but i just pushed the litter box back to cover it. this hasn't been a problem for a while now. she must be sad about something.
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Saturday, 18 August 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
Is 'im taking my cat to the vet' a good excuse for taking off work? I can't decide if I should just say that or if I should make something up.
― rayuela, Saturday, 18 August 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
it's fine my coworker is constantly taking afternoons off to go to the vet, it seems
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Saturday, 18 August 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
and people always take kids to the doctor during work hours
― kneel aurmstrong (harbl), Saturday, 18 August 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
is there a thread to talk about cat care? is this the thread?
i have to administer this medicine orally and i've only done it twice and it's horrible. like, my cat and i both feel that i am torturing him, as i am forced to sit on him and pry his mouth open to try to get him to take this medicine. gah. not a fun way to start and end the day! i don't even know if this med is 100% necessary, since the issue i initially took him to the vet for seems to have subsided, but they gave it to me for a reason, right?
― rayuela, Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
Is it liquid or a pill?
Here is my technique for administering medication to my eldest, who is a total sweetiehead lovercat UNTIL she suspects someone is about to make her do something she doesn't want to do at which point she turns into a hellbeast and tries to murder anyone within swiping rage:
I load up the syringe or pill gun (pill gun - http://www.amazon.com/Mikki-Pill-Gun/dp/B00076HUB4. No way I'm putting my fingers in her mouth under these circumstances) and wait until she's asleep somewhere. Then I causally walk up to her as though I'm just going to pet her. No "Hi kitty!" or anything because she'll sense any attempts at deception. Then I give her a good scratch just the way she likes it and GRAB HER AND STICK THE SYRINGE IN HER MOUTH AND SQUIRT THE MEDICINE DOWN HER THROAT before she knows what hit her.
I almost always request liquid meds because she can hork up a pill like no biological creature I've ever seen.
If I have to use pills, I have had some success crushing them up in wet food. She normally gets dry so the wet food is a treat and she'll eat most of it before she figures out what I've done.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
As for whether you still have to give it to her, call the vet and ask.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:24 (eleven years ago) link
it's liquid--how do you get her mouth open? i squeeze the sides of his mouth which does the trick of OPENING the mouth, but he shakes his head around like crazy at this point that it's so hard to aim correctly. this stupid cheap syringe doesn't seem to be well aligned and i can't get it all in at once. i have to push the plunger multiple times. well, only 6 more days. he doesn't try to murder me and instead acts traumatized during and after.
― rayuela, Thursday, 23 August 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
That's how I get her mouth open. I stand along her side and grab her under my right arm, like a football, then reach up with my right hand, squeeze her mouth open, and assault her with the syringe in my left hand. Grabbing her with my arm pins her down and keeps her from moving too much until I'm finished.
My cat is an elderly cat and so far she's been really healthy. She ate a rubber band once in 2003 and she had a bladder stone three years ago, but aside from that, no problems. I'm dreading the increase in veterinary interventions (she also redefines "vet aggressive," like she sounds and looks like that video of the screaming cat in a cage when she goes to the vet). If she ever needs thyroid medication or subcutaneous fluids, I'm fairly confident neither one of us will survive.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:43 (eleven years ago) link
If you have access to another human, you can also wrap the cat up in a towel and then have the other person give her the medication. This has never worked for me (she always manages to get that deadly back claw out of the towel and do some serious damage) but I think that's what vets suggest.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:44 (eleven years ago) link
haha i was in the waiting room at the vet and they had these "how to" videos showing. One was how to put an IV drip on your cat, and I thought the video was going to show you how to properly restrain and subdue your cat, but no, they just demonstrated it on the calmest cat in the world! Most unrealistic video ever. God forbid I ever have to administer an IV drip to my kitty.
― rayuela, Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
One of my cats has asthma, so I've had to give him medicine twice a day for about 6 years now. They do get used to it, although he isn't best pleased about it he doesn't struggle. At least now he just gets an inhaler which he doesn't mind as much as sticking a pill down his throat. The fact he gets treats straight after helps. He even comes in for his inhaler sometimes now, presumably cos he knows there's something in it for him afterwards.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
My technique is to sit him on my lap, put my left arm around him so he can't back up or jump off, then with my left hand I do the squeeze the sides of his mouth trick and pop the pill in with my right hand. To make this easier we put the pill in a chicken flavour pill capsule that you can buy in bulk online for not much. Then hold his mouth shut and tickle his throat until he swallows it.
With the inhaler it's a lot easier, just have to hold him still for a few seconds.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
I'm part of the problem with my cat. I get so nervous about how she's going to react that I start to get stressed out which clues her in that something unwelcome is about to happen to her, and we quickly end up in a widening gyre of anxiety that almost always ends in blood and tears (both mine).
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Thursday, 23 August 2012 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
ok maybe he'll get used to it. i can't remember it being this much of a pain last time around, several years ago, but maybe i just blocked it out.
― rayuela, Thursday, 23 August 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Was he feeling worse the last time? My cat is a lot easier to medicate when she doesn't feel well. When I took her in for the bladder stone, I didn't even have to sneak tranquilizers into her food to get her in the carrier. She was just a poor sick limp kitty.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 23 August 2012 17:04 (eleven years ago) link
well he had blood in his stool for two days last week so i took him in, but he hasn't had any problems since those two days. they are sending a sample to the lab to analyze for parasites, but dr gave me this other medication to give him in the meantime. kitty's acting like this is a completely unwarranted intrusion, not sick at all
― rayuela, Thursday, 23 August 2012 17:15 (eleven years ago) link
it's liquid--how do you get her mouth open? i squeeze the sides of his mouth which does the trick of OPENING the mouth, but he shakes his head around like crazy at this point that it's so hard to aim correctly.
― rayuela, Thursday, August 23, 2012 8:48 AM (7 hours ago)
trick that seems to work best for me, acquired in delivering medicine to a very tough customer, is to do what carlag suggted: move fast. as soon as her mouth is open, squirt the medicine down her throat. not on her tongue, but as far to the back of her mouth as i can get the dropper. seem to do the trick.
― contenderizer, Thursday, 23 August 2012 23:48 (eleven years ago) link
My old lady cat's new awesome habit is to snuggle up on me while I'm in bed, take a bath (including going to town on her claws), and then leave. She did this three times the other night. Seriously? Is on my prone body really the best place for a hardcore grooming session?
― carl agatha, Friday, 14 September 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
Yes. Yes, it is.
― emil.y, Friday, 14 September 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
I know. I'm a total pushover with her because a little part of me always thinks, "She might not live much longer and then you'll be sorry that you didn't let her clean her butthole on you while you were trying to sleep." sigh.
― carl agatha, Friday, 14 September 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
it's fall so it's time for my cat to sit with her arms and legs underneath her and pretend she is very small and warm
― horribl ecreature (harbl), Friday, 21 September 2012 01:14 (eleven years ago) link
my cats are the worst I love them
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 21 September 2012 01:23 (eleven years ago) link
i love my cat too. i love when she waits for me to come home from work and jumps off my bed when i come in the door. how can an animal be so interested in a human. i think she's gained weight though, needs to go on a diet.
― horribl ecreature (harbl), Friday, 21 September 2012 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
she is a bad cat though, yeah
― horribl ecreature (harbl), Friday, 21 September 2012 01:35 (eleven years ago) link
my cat was sleeping like this today:
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/60717_405194979548186_155672249_n.jpg
― clouds, Friday, 21 September 2012 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
I want a kitty so bad
― The Most Typical and Popular Girl Rider (Crabbits), Friday, 21 September 2012 04:13 (eleven years ago) link
catloaf
― carl agatha, Friday, 21 September 2012 04:33 (eleven years ago) link
we had to leave our cat in australia when we moved back to england, it was/is v traumatic.
have any of you cat people read ON CATS by doris lessing? it's really good (and short).
― jabba hands, Friday, 21 September 2012 10:18 (eleven years ago) link
I went to the Cat's Protection for my friend's birthday to pet some cats. They were all too adorable, but I met the cat that should be mine. Except we can't have one yet. She was lovely. We cuddled. Now I am sad.
― emil.y, Friday, 21 September 2012 11:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9ivqduptr1qmsksao1_400.gif
― am0n, Friday, 21 September 2012 14:17 (eleven years ago) link
One of my little bastards SPRAYED the couch for no apparent reason. WTF, cats? I am considering how bad you are.
― quincie, Friday, 21 September 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
Husband has taken to wheelbarrowing one of the cats. He'll lift up her back legs and off they'll go, with her pumping away her back legs even though they are not touching the ground!
The other cat won't budge when he picks up his (the cat's) back legs, so not very entertaining.
― quincie, Friday, 21 September 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
that photo of myrrha looks like it was taken from underneath a glass table
― A.R.R.Y. Kane (nakhchivan), Friday, 21 September 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
hovercat.jpg
― clouds, Friday, 21 September 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
i have emailed re: acquiring/hosting/loving this cat
http://www.balloon-juice.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Sunshine-the-cutest.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 22 September 2012 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
<3 that was a good mookie move
― estela, Saturday, 22 September 2012 05:58 (eleven years ago) link
that cat looks like trouble!
― horribl ecreature (harbl), Saturday, 22 September 2012 11:58 (eleven years ago) link
Trouble in such a pretty package, though. Look at those slender little white feet!
― check the name, no caps, boom, i'm (Laurel), Saturday, 22 September 2012 12:00 (eleven years ago) link
Yay mookie! That is one lucky kitty :)
― quincie, Saturday, 22 September 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
holy fucking whiskers
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:22 (eleven years ago) link
the sensory reception cone on that cat is HUGE
when my cat is sleeping and i pet her she wakes up and says "MURRR" or "MEH"
― horribl ecreature (harbl), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
not "meh"
mrrrah?
― clouds, Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
Mine does that, too! It's like "mmmbbbrrrrup?" One of her nicknames is "Merple" because she "merrrrps" a lot.
MOOKIE that cat is a good cat.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
yeah also when she is going crazy running around she goes brrrrrrrup. i think it's like a grunt but high pitched because she is small and not a lion.
― horribl ecreature (harbl), Saturday, 22 September 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link