If your cat got sick, and the veterinarian prescribed him pricks, then you have two options. The first – to go with an animal to veterinary clinic and to charge it to the expert. The second – to give to a cat an injection independently. Houses prick pricks to a cat can even be simpler, than in clinic as the animal will not be afraid of the unfamiliar atmosphere and foreign people.
It is required to you
- the insulin syringe with the thinnest needle.
Instruction
1. If you pricked injections to people and are able to do it, then to give an injection to a cat for you will not make difficulties. The equipment approximately the same, but it is necessary to be prepared for a prick. Use the insulin syringe as it has the thinnest and small needle. Do not take big syringes as to a cat it will be sore, and it is not necessary to allow it.
2. People who never gave an injection to a cat, but want to learn to prick injections independently, can go once with an animal to veterinary clinic and look how the doctor will put a prick. It is possible to specify in addition in what point put a prick not to get into a nerve or a vein of an animal.
3. Before giving an injection, give to a cat something tasty. It will improve mood, and the further unpleasant procedure will be apprehended more positively.
4. Prepare the syringe with an injection in advance. Pricks are intramuscular and hypodermic. To give an intramuscular injection, put a cat sideways paws to yourself, the left hand clamp forepaws, and right record hinder legs so that the palm remained free for the syringe. The prick is made in a hip, in that its part where most of all muscles. Depth of introduction of a game – about one and a half centimeters.
5. It is simpler to give a hypodermic injection. Put a cat on a stomach. Collect by one hand a skin of an animal on a nape pleated, holding the head, and the second give an injection in this fold. You enter the syringe parallel to a backbone of an animal. The needle has to be under skin and not to leave on the other side of a skin fold.
6. Use the disposable syringe. After an injection throw out it at once. Before a prick do not forget to let out the air from a game, having sprinkled several drops of liquid.
7. After a prick caress an animal, feed with something tasty. That the cat was not nervous during a prick, it is possible to talk to him. He will not understand your words, but the calming intonations will be clear to him. If the animal trusts you, then intuitively will understand that you with him are not going to do anything bad. The cat can panic during a prick, begin to howl and mew, but you should not be nervous. Be quiet - it will help also your pet.