How do your cats take their tablets?

[Az]

Is it a battle? Or not?

(I took Cheetah to the vet's regarding her still calling after being spayed and the vet checked her pee for infection and said she has cystitus (sp), so she's on antibiotics.)

So.. got her on my lap and took the tablets out of the packet - as usual any rustling sound and she comes to see whats going on... got the tablet out and tried to give her it but her mouth firmly shut! After two tried it fell on the sofa and she went to it investigate it...

Guess what she did next? She ate it!!!!!!!!!!!



Ok I thought it was a fluke, so next day made loads of rustling noise with it and she was chirping as I was getting it out.. so I put it on the sofa and she ate it again!! lol she's done this 4 times now so it's not a fluke!

So... how do your cat's take their tablets?

[Fran]

No problems here with any of mine. Just wrap them in a towel, open their mouths, push the tablet to the back of their tongues, close their mouths and rub their throats until they swallow - easy Most of mine don't even need the towel now


Well done Cheetah for being such a good girl

[CathyW]

wrap cat in towel place buttered pill in their mouth, pick up tablet from under the sofa, wipe clean re-wrap cat, shove pill down its throat, (by then swearing profusly ) pick tablet up off rug, wipe tablet look round for cat, find cat re-wrap cat, shove down throat, hold mouth shut stroking throat. (saying never again ) then go to cupboard get plasters out n patch myself up. quite difficult u could say

[Mags]

Well done Cheetah!!

No matter how much I've tried I can't get Cassie to have her tablet......so different to my previous cat who was on 2 tablets a day for life, he used to sit and wait for them!
I asked the vet to give her the tablets....but she was having none of it - even when the vet used tongs .......so now I have to buy the palatable worm tablets for her which she will chew up with no problem!

[Moli]

3 of mine are easy, open their mouths and drop them in...Leo however is a nighmare, so much so that if he needs tablets has to have them in the form of an injection from the vet!

[Het]

All of mine are easy apart from Gizmo I've tried to surprise her, I've tried the towel wrapping thing!!! she just grows more legs with bigger claws - or thats what it seems like. And the biggest problem is that she bites...she will open her mouth but as soon as you try to put the pill in she bites...and if by pure luck you manage to fire it in to the back of her throat and get her to swallow it....two minutes later she coughs and it shoots back out. That girl is a master at not taking pills and I bow to her...lol!

[Sweet]

With difficulty.......have not tried Mau Mau yet x

[candyshandy]

The cat is sat in between my knees and I open their mouths, pop pill in and tickle the throat. They are very good though

[Donna]

I am too scared to try it!!!

Use tasty worming pills that are like treats, but not had to give them a real tablet!!

[Booktigger]

Pebbles used to be relatively OK till she had her dental, and then she turned into a nightmare - got an infected bite when she had Baytril last year, and even the vet passed comment on how nasty she was when they tried to pill her on Thurs - but then I got it down in one (although had to put my fingers far in her mouth, quite risky with her) - but she was twice as bad yesterday!! Tom has half eaten some of his tablets, and he is on daily meds for his cystitis, and it is rare I dont get his down in one (although I have learnt to do it just before his brekkie, so he is eager to eat.