How to give a tablet to a cat

How to give a tablet to a cat

Sometimes the cat gets sick and needs the help. However to feed to a fluffy canine friend a tablet quite difficult as not each cat eats medicine independently. Usually the owner of an animal should be in everything it process the most directly involved. There are different ways to feed a cat with tablets.

Instruction

1. If tablets for cats can be given with food, pound medicine and stir it in a small amount of cat's food. That the cat did not refuse the offered treat, it is the best of all to mix a tablet with its favourite delicacy. For example, mincemeat. If medicine for a cat in the form of the capsule or a tablet with a protective cover, do not mix medicine with food better. Probability is high that in the pounded state such tablets for cats will not be acquired – they need to be given to an animal in the whole look.

2. If you deliberate how to feed to a cat a tablet entirely, first of all estimate, your animal how aggressively can behave. If a cat rather quiet, put her on some smooth surface (for example, a table) where she has nothing it will be to be hooked. Then clasp with a hand the cat's head so that on the one hand you could press it on a jaw a forefinger, on the other hand – a thumb. Delay the head of a cat slightly back. If the cat does not open a jaw, a forefinger of other hand open it a mouth and put a tablet on a language root. Then close to a cat of companies and hold it in such state, but at the same time try not to cover with a palm a nose. You hold the head of the cat who is thrown back until she swallows a tablet. It is possible to stroke slightly a throat of a cat, it will help it to swallow medicine.

3. How to feed a cat with tablets if he strongly is afraid or shows aggression? At first limit freedom of an animal, for this purpose he can be wrapped up in a thick blanket that outside there was only a muzzle. It is even better if somebody helps you to take the cat who is wrapped up in a blanket. Give to a cat a tablet, working with the way described above. During all these manipulations talk to the animal tender and calming tone.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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