How to Give a Cat a Pill

Posted by Karin on Jun 3, 2010 in Cats, Cats, Cats | 0 comments

How to Give a Cat a Pill

1. Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat’s mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand.  As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow.
2. Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat in left arm and repeat process.
3. Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away.
4. Take new pill from foil wrap, crad le cat in left arm, holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for a count of ten.

You’ll never eat alone…

Posted by admin on Apr 8, 2010 in Ailments | 0 comments

Or is it “you’ll never be alone”?? In this case, it doesn’t matter. Both are true.

Bailey is eating 100% raw food now. Our last foray into canned food was disastrous (for her and the carpeting), and I have no intention of putting it anywhere near her again. She now gets raw duck, pork and/or beef 4x/day. Yes, four. times. every. day. I would feel a bit overbooked by this, except that she has IBD, and a common symptom of IBD is malabsorption. The poor thing is eating nearly as much as my 19# wonderboy and yet she is losing weight.

Incidentally, 19# wonderboy and his 13# wondersister are also 100% raw fed. Somewhere along the way, monkeys saw and now monkeys do. They’re a couple months ahead of schedule — we still have four 16# bags of kibble in the garage — but there are 3 other cats in the house who are still adamantly refusing raw. They are Professional Kibbleheads, capital P and capital K! :)

The 4x/day is fine with me. I suck it up when they awaken me in the middle of the night because they’re DYING. That’s alright. She’s losing weight, she can use every speck of food she can get.

What gets me is that I cannot be gone during a mealtime, because if I have someone else (Mom) give her her food, she hides under the bed. And let’s say, even if she didn’t hide under the bed, she now has this annoying habit where she won’t eat alone. She will walk away from her food dish and sit by the door, waiting for me to come back. Only once I am present, and preferably right next to her, only then will she eat.

House Mouse is dead!

Posted by admin on Mar 30, 2010 in Cat Stories, Cats, Cats, Cats | 0 comments

In Breaking News, I am pleased to report HOUSE MOUSE IS DEAD!!

House Mouse has been on the lam for a couple of weeks now, living the life of Riley in the kitchen (I know, I know, — ughhh). And then House Mouse went MIA for a few days and we thought, “golly, maybe House Mouse died!”

Nope. House Mouse reappeared tonight. Ginger heard that faintest rustle and saw the tiniest bit of motion, and let me tell you, it was ALL OVER. She was like a pointer on a grouse, holy smokes! I picked her up and placed her next to the coffee pot, and seriously, it took like 3 minutes, and she had him. Bwahahahaha! That little cat has got some amazing skillz!!

However, given that we have already established her knack for catch-and-release (she hasn’t figured out to put her foot on the critter before letting go to re-bite) I cornered the poor cat and stepped on the mouse’s head. (Sorry, don’t mean to be gross.) The cat growled. A lot. She got really mad I was messing with her mousie, yikes!! But it was quick and effective. House Mouse died. No more Free Willy repeats. :)