to challenge you to find anything more difficult to do to a cat

[Glitterknickaz]

than give it a worming tablet?

I have scratches all over my abdomen where the little shit darling tried to escape.

So.... anybody had to deal with anything worse when it comes to felines?

Bath it. Those bad boys grow extra limbs when confronted with warm water.

try this

put them in a carrier to go to the vet....that one is a two man job with heavy duty gloves on in our house....

cheers catinthehat2

Chair silent scream

i wrap mine in an old towel...bit like swaddling a baby in the old days. then i put the thing between my knees (i am kneeling on the floor) and grab head etc....

works for me

Wrap it up in an old towel next time. Stick a bit of butter on the tablet to help shove it down. Works a treat.

Step by step here

Move house. Driving down the M1 with 2 cats (separate carriers) meowing, scratching and then the stench of shitting - do you stop and clean it up (and run the risk of escaped cats in the car) or carry on regardless with windows open to get rid of stench

Our dog doesn't scratch when you try to make her take tablets, but it's like holding onto a seal. You have to sit her down, stand over her with her trapped between your knees, tip her head right back, put the pill in her mouth, and clasp her jaws shut until she swallows.

She still manages to store the tablet somewhere, God knows where, and spits it back out the moment you let her go.

Truly, it took my sister over 25 minutes to give her her last tablet....

towel method used to work for us too. And gardening gloves...

ohhh stoatie I've had the house move carrier shitting thing.... yeah actually that is worse

I took 2 of them and a 2 month old to london then stayed in a hotel over night then got on a trans continental flight. Stayed over night in another hotel then got on another flight.

I also trim their nails. But I am well hard

OH and they were IN THE CABIN with me under foot.

I had to stop DH from leaving the cats at Scotch Corner services a few years back after the little feckers did stereo shitting when we were moving from Newcastle to Bristol. It was hideous.

DH is bloody amazing at worming them; he has this brilliant flicking technique where it goes down their throats so quickly that they don't really know what's happened.

We drove to Slovenia with 2 cats in the car. Both with diarrhoea. Longest 2 days of my life.

"stereo shitting"

Have just remembered when one of our cats had tartar on his teeth and the vet told us we had to clean them every day. I tried it once and then figured his teeth could just fall out (they didn't, he was fine).

Hold it tightly by the scruff of the neck, just leave its back legs on the ground - it wont be ble to move, bobs yer uncle, fanny's yer aunt.

Rectal Diazepam

Umami - the old ones are always the best

My cat had 3 drains put in his leg following an abcess. When he came home I was told I had to pick the scabs off the drain holes and "inject" him with saline solution through the holes to flush out the wound still further. Twice a day for a week. Beat that.

Eye ointment is fairly tricky.

Pills are a doddle, really really. My current cat is easy to pill anyway (well, she runs away, and she tries to cheek the pill, but she doesn't scratch me).

Oh, and yy, drains smell horrible, I think I had to put hot compresses on the drain (above the drain?) to keep it draining ... blee. Same cat, I had to keep him in a tiny space, so that he wouldn't walk around too much, so his broken leg would heel.

feralgirl - I can only think your vet had to be taking the piss about cleaning the cats teeth. Most vets aren't cat people, in my experience. I wouldnt even attempt worming tablets. I do chemicals on the back of the neck of my cat everytime. Even when I was pregnant, with rubber gloves on! Cat doesn't come near me for ages after. Most delighful experience with cat was when his anal glands needed doing something to. No f'fn way was I going near that cats bum. A job for the student vet at my local practice. poor sod (cat and student).

2 person method for pills - some people use a pillpopper to avoid gnashing fangs - but you shouldn't need it unless one of you is a girly man coward

"break pill into chunks that would go down his neck without choking him.

Person A gets cat on table, stnds at tail end and leans over animal holding his front legs where they bend forward. This stops slashing/clawing, and holds the beast in one place, immobile

Person B holds cat's head, palm over eyes, and turns it to face the ceiling. THe mouth opens automatically, and it's very hard to bring the jaws together to bite.

B takes the tablet, and pushes it to the back of the cat's mouth. past the back of the tongue so he can't honk it back up. Leave it there for a second as his reflexes try to gollop it down. then hold his jaws together, turning his head doen to normal position, and wait for a bit till tablet has gone.

YOu can with practice do this vv quickly, and once he realises it's painless and can't taste the tab (as it's gone past his taste buds) after a while you only need person B."