Unpleasantly, but fact: even cats sometimes are ill. At the same time they do not want to take medicine, and shift these honorary duties to the owner. To give mixture or a tablet to a cat without the assistance of the veterinarian happens not easy, but there are checked ways.
To the hostess for record
- Choose time when the animal is quiet.
- Calm down. Remember that you not "torment a cat", and help him.
- Act surely, but you do not press too strongly.
Preparation
Before reading further, stop for a minute and think whether precisely you are going to give the correct medicine. Too recheck a dosage. Useful will be to find out from the doctor whether it is possible to mix medicine with food and to dissolve in water.
Everything was learned? Are sure of the correctness? Then we pass to practice.
Way first: deceptive maneuvers
Try to mix medicine with a forage. It is easy to make it with canned food, dilute a dry forage with water and mix to a condition of gruel.
The trick can not work. Contrary to popular delusion, cat's have no good sense of smell. However they thinly feel nuances of tastes therefore often refuse food with unclear additives.
In this case the cat can smear forage mix with medicine on a pad or a nose. Some especially purely dense companions will begin to be licked actively, and medicine will get where follows.
If to outwit a koteyka did not leave, to do nothing — it is necessary to catch it and to hold.
Way second: catch if you are able
Before chasing a cat, try to agree with him nevertheless: choose time when the pet is quiet and does not expect a dirty trick, sit down near an animal or settle behind, having put him between knees. If you the right-handed person, then embrace a cat the left hand, pressing to themselves, hold with a palm the head. Now a free hand open for a cat of companies and give medicine.
How to open a mouth if the pet resists?
- Pull a mouth for withers (this place is slightly lower than a neck), and will open. Carefully, side effects — spiteful hissing and a klatsanye teeth are possible.
- It is possible just to push fingers with the tablet clamped in them sideways between teeth, but if very biting character got to you, it is better not to risk.
- Move apart jaws the syringe without needle. The syringe is convenient for liquid medicines, and for tablets there is an introdyyuser or, simply, a tabletkodavatel. It is a plastic tubule with the piston inside. The tablet or the capsule is inserted into a tip, the tube is pushed between teeth, the piston pushes out medicine.
With strongly scared or embittered animals "negotiations", most likely, will come to a standstill. Then find the assistant and ask it to hold the sufferer. It is good if this person is familiar and pleasant to a cat, but in especially started cases do not forget to give out to the assistant to a glove more thickly.
When to help there is nobody, there is other option — to put on through the head to a cat a sleeve (to take, for example, an old jacket) suitable diameter - so that almost all cat was in a sleeve, and the head — outside. Then the patient will not be turned out and will not escape under a sofa, having left you to heal wounds from its sharp claws.
If there is no suitable jacket, it is simple to sew such sleeve cone from improvised materials.
Instead of self-made adaptation it is possible to use a bag fixer. Veterinarians apply it to aggressive animals. However, without experience it is hard to push a cat into such bag: it usually against. With a sleeve, perhaps, it is simpler.
Option for strong in spirit — to wrap an animal in a dense blanket, a towel or a plaid so that only the head remained outside. Not the easiest way, but if in a different way it did not turn out, act quickly and without hesitation: the cat who managed to realize that he is caught turns aside many times quicker.
Let's be optimists and it is representable that at this stage you have well recorded pet who obediently (or not really) waits for the portion of medicine. The following actions depend on a medicine form: liquid (mixture, suspension) or firm (capsule, tablet). They have a little different ways of "giving".
How to give liquid medicine
Gather mixture in the syringe without needle. It is possible to get instead of a needle a piece of a silicone tube from a dropper, but it is optional. Now unclench to a cat of a jaw, having pushed the syringe sideways between teeth, and pour in medicine.
The pet strongly does not need to lift up the head, you hold it a little at an angle. You enter contents of the syringe in the small portions that the cat managed to swallow it.
It is desirable that medicine, especially if it has an unpleasant taste, did not fall victim to the tongue. Bitter or sour drugs can cause the increased salivation or vomiting. So aim in a far corner behind a cheek, is closer to a throat, but not directly in it. Then liquid will not fall victim to the tongue, the sglatyvaniye will be reflex, and the cat will not choke.
How to give a tablet or the capsule
If learned to vypaivat skillfully liquid medicines, then you will suit the previous option: crush a tablet, pour out contents of the capsule. Dissolve the received powder, pour in the syringe and successfully feed.
The small capsule or tablet with neutral taste can be given entirely. Throw back to a cat the head a little, slightly unclench jaws an introdyyuser or fingers. Throw the capsule on a language root. Close a mouth, stroke to the pet a throat, wait until he swallows medicine.
Be patient: some especially cunning companions do "single" glotatelny movements, and spit out a pill when the owner loses vigilance.
In the ideal world where there live exclusively obedient cats, on it all also comes to an end: the happy pet receives yum-yum in an award, the owner fills in a stress with valerian or than more strong — it's done. But happen and...
Difficult cases
- The capsule stuck to the sky. Push it water: pour a little via the syringe. The same option will help also in case of the tablet hidden behind a cheek. It is not necessary as sometimes advise, to grease the capsule with butter. If you make so one-time, then, most likely, nothing terrible happens. But better nevertheless consult to the veterinarian: oil is also so not really useful for cats, and at some diseases it is even dangerous.
- Medicine very bitter. Before giving to a cat such medicine, disguise it.
Tablet under cover
On the Internet, special "pockets for tablets" (pill pockets) are on sale. The tablet is inside put, hermetically closed from above and fed to the pet. At these pockets a smell, pleasant for animals, and taste. So, most likely, they with pleasure will swallow a treat, without having noticed additive.
In house conditions it is possible to do "Koloboks" of the medicine mixed with a forage paste, bread or the test. The soaked cat's delicacy will approach too. Sometimes use butter, but you remember that it is not always admissible, consult on the veterinarian.
If the drug needs to be taken several times, then prepare many balls at once, freeze and get as required.
Still the option is to pound a tablet and to enclose the received powder in gelatin capsules. They are on sale in some pharmacies and online stores (look for "empty gelatin capsules" according to keywords).
Perhaps, it will not be possible to find empty preparations at once. Then buy in pharmacy of the capsule with some neutral substance and replace their contents with the medicine. Moisten a junction of halves of the capsule with water for durability.
I hope, some of councils worked above: the cat received medicine, and you have no serious wounds. In that case — my congratulations. If nothing left — exhale, let's the pet have a rest and try to start anew.
Repeated and did not turn out? Understood what you do not want to try more? Are already ready to eat this tablet? Do not suffer — give up to the veterinarian. Because, as we know, "will cure all, kind doctor Aybolit will cure".