Medicine

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I'm looking for tips on giving my kitten her tablets. I've tried hiding it in her food but she eats everything except the tablet.

Open her mouth, put the tablet at the back of her throat, close her mouth and stroke her throat. If you have a small syringe it's a good idea to follow the tablet with a squirt of water.

Or, use a very sticky food. Shiphams fish sandwich paste (human food) is brilliant for this. So is Gourmet pate in tins cat food, particularly if you put them in the fridge to make them stiffer.

My cats will happily eat one type of tablet if I crush it to a powder and mix with their food. The other tablet not so much - must taste/smell awful.

I bought some Greenies pill pouches from Amazon, Snorg loves them. No problem getting her piriton down her now.

Webbox cat sticks or the Lidl versions are brilliant for this.

Tear off a tablet sized bit, mould it round tablet, cat eats treat before they have noticed tablet is in it. Worked about 95% of the time for our hyperthyroid cat.

Lidl version was better than Webbox as it was squishier, Waitrose was no good at all. Made tablet giving completely stress free.

We used something called Easipill from the vet - similar to the webbox just wrap a little round the treat and the cat almost always ate it.
Stank something rotten, though!

Thank you. Some great ideas to try. She loves Webbex.