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?

Spuddy, it could have been worse. It could have had diarrhoea down your face.

smash the tablet into powder then wrap in bit of corned beef, works every time!

tears running down face at Worra's post - have just read outloud to DD1. I recall this with now deceased stereo shitter cat, following year I tried vet approach) as she scaled the walls and circumnavigated the room from the top of the cupboards we gathered she wasn't keen on the worming process

When we had to get a urine sample he refused to wee in the special pebbles the vet gave us and we kept him in for days but no wee.
Then i spied the little beast climbing into the bathroom sink and peeing down the plughole!
SOooo i put the plug in and in the morning there was a small puddle of 'water' in the sink. But it looked clear and the urine test cost a fortune and the tap had been leaking earlier so i thought the only way to know was to taste it!
It just tasted like flat alka seltser, so i scooped it up and when i took it to the vets i handed it to receptionist saying 'i think this is his wee, but it might be water, i've tasted it tho and i still cant tell...' To say she looked horrified is an understatement!

Anyway - as it turns out it was wee...phew, i think!

Yes! i know but it was because i thought i would look like a right prat if i took in a jar of H2o! I didn't think thru tho what a weirdo i would look when i said i'd tasted it!!

Ahh well you live and learn, something to cross of the list i suppose.

Our vet gave us some worming stuff you just put onto the fur on the back of her neck. Much easier that tablets.....

Loving Worral's advice

Lol

It amazes me how in this day and age they can't invent some sort of worming liquid to mix with their food that tastes of fish or something?

The cat I grew up with had insulin dependent diabetes which meant he need daily insulin jabs and once a week we had to trap him in the front room with a specially adapted litter tray to catch his wee and test the glucose levels in it.

The vet told us most cats with insulin dependent diabetes get put down and thought we were quite strange for carrying on with this regime. But he lived for 9 years post diagnosis.

Worral - ours was a liquid in a sort of vial you just emptied onto the fur. Maybe it was some experimental treatment as our neighbours are vets and they got it for me

Our vet gave us a little plastic thing once, a bit like a syringe, where you put the pill in the end, put that into the side of the mouth where there's a gap in the teeth, and push it towards the back of the throat, then you press the end and the pill goes straight down the throat. It still involved a fair bit of wrestling, but didn't need to much time clamping the jaws shut and waiting for the swallow. Maybe your vet could give you one?

This kind of thing:
www.amazon.com/Mikki-Pill-Gun/dp/B00076HUB4

i guess it was this or the same idea anyway. Very easy especially for a novice cat owner

Oh that's a good idea Sober

Mind you, it's not a bad idea drunk either

My friend's cat got hit by a car about 6 years ago. Every day and night since then, 3 or 4 times a day, they have had to massage his anal glands to help him poo. Even at 3am. They haven't had a decent night's sleep in 6 years.
The poor cat died the other day :( but we thought, well, at least they'll get some sleep now. Turns out she's pg, so not for long!

I think i'm somewhere in between Worral as usual

You can buy worming drops from the vet that you put on the back of their neck like Frontline.

Remove shitty string from a cats arse after the stupid animal ate it.

I've just remembered, reading this thread, that I first found out about the "old towel" technique for wrapping cats in an ancient James Herriot book I read when I was a nipper! Off to try to find out what book it was now, for nostalgia reasons. Thanks, mumsnetters, your work here is done.

Moving house.....getting cat in pet carrier. DEFINITELY

All the removal men etc freaked her out during the day......got her corralled in the sitting room with pet carrier.
Got hold of her, tried to ram 'persuade' her into carrier. Marvelled at the four extra legs she suddenly produced that welded clamped themselves to the outer rim of the carrier, just as you'd unhook one, she'd get another braced to prevent entering the carrier.
After 5 minutes of bloody painful cat wrestling, a perfect 45 degree v shaped laceration on my hand had appeared (still have the scar!), dripping with blood, we tried one last time.
At this point the cat turned into Bruce Lee, complete with air ballet flying, threw itself across the room in a perfect, graceful arc, landed on the floor, hooked up a loose floorboard with 1 claw, lifted it, disappeared under floor and the board popped down exactly in original position like a magic trick!

Once under the floorboards, she was gone...not a hope of retrieval.

This was 20 minutes before completion and the new family were pulling up with removal vans outside.

So it was. "Hi, welcome to your new home, hope you're happy here, btw there is an insanely angry cat somewhere under the floorboards."

She apparently appeared after 3 days, hungry and deflated, we had to travel over 100 miles to go pick her up from the bemused new home owners. We didn't even try to box her, just shoved her in the back of the car; where she sulked the whole journey.

Never again.....

My 19 year old cat has auditory triggered epilepsy. Any noise can trigger a seizure...keppads...crisps...biscuits...laughing...doors..and so on.
Rectal diazepam administered asap. Lacerated limbs are a norm chez wallace family.

A friend of mine has a cat who has 4 5-week-old kittens, 2 of whom have developed gunky eyes. So off we went to the vet, who prescribed medicine to be squirted down their throats twice a day and said we should wash the affected eyes with salty water.

So, my friend requests my help in carrying out the vet's instructions, and helpfully suggests that all I need do is HOLD the kittens, one at a time, while she cleans the eyes and administers the meds.

Now, anyone who knows anything about small kittens knows that, although they look like bundles of fluff, they are actually made almost entirely out of sharp things, and they wriggle and thrash around with claws that they have not yet learned to retract even if they wanted to which they don't. They do not like having their eyes washed, in fact this makes them a bit naffed off, then they really really do not like having a pipette stuffed in their mouth and nasty stuff squirted into it, and they have been a bit expressive about their displeasure which has involved them shredding the skin on the back of my hands.

you can get worming granules from the vet they are about 50p a sachet and you just mix them in tuna/cat meat and ours (we have 7 cats) dont even notice it!
SO much easier!

I took my feral cat to the vet for her vaccination...she wasn't just a bit wild she was feral I used to have to push her food bowl towards her with a broom handle!
'Oh, I'll have to scruff her then' he says
I advised him that she couldn't be scruffed as she was feral
'no, no I'll scruff her'
cue big sigh from me as I take a few steps away from the already angry cat

Cue swearing at me for not warning him, a hint that I should have her PTS, a consulting room sprayed in urine and a pompous, know it all vet covered in blood
He still had the scars when I went back 2 weeks later

She never had any tablets!

helpful tip for cats that are evil hard to worm with pills

Advocate-spot on all in one wormer and flea treatment.

here

Ask your vet,it's far easier.