considering a cat

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

Yes. Yes, it is.

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.

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

my cats are the worst I love them

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.

she is a bad cat though, yeah

my cat was sleeping like this today:

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I want a kitty so bad

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

catloaf

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).

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.

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One of my little bastards SPRAYED the couch for no apparent reason. WTF, cats? I am considering how bad you are.

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.

that photo of myrrha looks like it was taken from underneath a glass table

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i have emailed re: acquiring/hosting/loving this cat

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<3 that was a good mookie move

that cat looks like trouble!

Trouble in such a pretty package, though. Look at those slender little white feet!

Yay mookie! That is one lucky kitty :)

holy fucking whiskers

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"

not "meh"

mrrrah?

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.

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.

"mmmbbbrrrrup?"

It's this! Best version of that cat hello.

mookie, that cat is a beauty.

I love that little cat chirp/mrrrp/brrrp.

Good luck with the cat, mookie. Is it a little boycat or a girlcat?

i hope that little cat is a rampant elbow leaner.

i want to adopt a cat immediately

tho i'm certain that's illegal in mn on sundays

i've always been curious about the provenance of one of the two cats we got from a shelter a couple of years ago. she has a really distinctive look and i finally got around to looking at descriptions of various breeds to see if she fit the criteria. i'm now 99% certain she's a Turkish Van - she has the markings and her personality is eerily, freakily similar to the breed description.

i'd always thought her many endearing quirks and eccentricities were unique to her alone. kinda weird to find that she's so close to the typical personality of this particular breed. it's a bit like finding out phrenology is legit or something. anyone got any experience in the oddball world of cat breeding?

anyway, she's still the best cat ever. here she is chillin in her bed on the radiator:

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(ps good luck with the kitty, mookie)

They are energetic; they play hard and sleep hard.

Hey, that looks like one of my cats! She definitely has the fascination with water trait.

someone beat me to that cat : /

she is a girl (and momma); i was considering (re-)naming her estela

Awww, sorry mookie.

There is another cat for you.

yah, i know

i just don't want to compare it unfavorably to lyle