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Cats in Boxes

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Hanneke Jan 2024 11:36am, 27 Jan 2024 118,840 posts	Quote Pin Hanneke Gorgeous photos of both Monty and the Kodo cats
GlennR Jan 2024 12:00am, 28 Jan 2024 74,264 posts	Quote 2 pins GlennR Stroke me if you dare:
CK2 Jan 2024 6:14am, 28 Jan 2024 2,593 posts	Quote Pin CK2 What is your experience of giving a pill to a cat. HK was eventually successful yesterday. I feared losing a finger! I can’t face doing this daily. Giving her the inhaler is bad enough!
1step2far Jan 2024 6:57am, 28 Jan 2024 7,648 posts	Quote Pin 1step2far Can you ask to have it as a liquid and mix it in lick-y-lik? I had to do this for lennox. She's normally pretty good but was having none of it.
jda Jan 2024 7:16am, 28 Jan 2024 16,333 posts	Quote Pin jda Pill pocket has worked for us. Otherwise mashed in food.
EvilPixie Jan 2024 7:41am, 28 Jan 2024 51,205 posts	Quote Pin EvilPixie Ozzy is a fussy eater so the food trick didn't work I had to force it down! We knew when he was feeling better as he got harder to give them to At first it was really easy!
Jen HB Jan 2024 8:10am, 28 Jan 2024 2,044 posts	Quote Pin Jen HB Had a very objectionable Tilly yesterday evening- cat flap has stopped letting her in and she was outside. I was out for the evening and she shot back inside at high speed as soon as I opened the front door
Ally-C Jan 2024 8:10am, 28 Jan 2024 4,899 posts	Quote Pin Ally-C Tried wrapping them in a towel and massaging their throat to swallow but it’s a nightmare & a two person job.
EvilPixie Jan 2024 8:15am, 28 Jan 2024 51,207 posts	Quote Pin EvilPixie Yes!
CK2 Jan 2024 9:14am, 28 Jan 2024 2,595 posts	Quote Pin CK2 We’re looking at pill pockets now as she’s likely to learn how to avoid the manual method, and was pretty good to begin with. We started by grinding into Dreamy licks but she was wise to that straight away!