Owners of cats and cats sometimes should break the head how to give them medicine and at the same time to save an animal from a serious stress, and themselves – from a set of stings and scratches. But it is quite possible if competently to approach process.
For a start take an interest at the veterinarian who appointed treatment, how exactly to give to an animal medicine. Whether it is worth trying to mix it with food whether it is possible to pound in powder (if it is a tablet), in a case with liquid medicines – whether it is possible to reduce concentration, having added water or other liquid. Some drugs should not be mixed with the products containing fat like sour cream, milk, meat at all. At helminthics attentively study the instruction.
If it is necessary to give to a cat the whole tablet, but at the same time it is impossible to mix it with food, act this way. Take a cat on hands, put on knees so that she would be the right side pressed to your trunk. Put the left hand to a cat on the head so that index and a thumb to take the upper jaw. Accurately you protisnit fingers in a mouth of an animal on both sides. It is the most convenient to make it behind canines at once.
At a cat the reflex works – she slightly opens a mouth and begins to move back. It is necessary to hold her and a free right hand to place a tablet on a language root. Close a hand a cat's mouth, holding jaws, stroke it on a throat that she swallowed.
The cat during the procedure has to sit or stand. That it did not choke, do not throw back her head back, do not stack sideways. If there is an opportunity, call to the aid someone from members of household – one person will hold the pet, another will put a tablet on a language root. So for a cat there are less chances to spit out medicine.
Capsules can stick to the sky and be dissolved from saliva. That it did not occur, drip on a saucer vegetable oil and take for a drive the capsule in it a little. The gelatinous cover will not suffer from it, but oil will facilitate penetration into a gullet.
If medicine for a cat is produced in the form of powder, it is necessary to track that it did not stick to a throat and mucous a mouth. For this purpose it is possible to arrive as follows: to put a leaf of a foil on a saucer, to make deepening in the center and to pour out powder in it. Mix powder with water before formation of gruel. Take a teaspoon for the handle and collect by the flat end from a foil this gruel. You hold a cat as well as for giving of a tablet – open for her a mouth and enter a spoon with gruel there.
It is the in the liquid state most convenient to give medicine by means of the syringe without needle. The tip is entered to a cat for a cheek then by accurate, uniform pressing the piston the contents of the syringe move to an oral cavity. At the same time you watch closely that medicine did not get into airways.