Pilling the cat: 100 easy steps

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No.

Terrible cute. Note the eye slit open, alert for food.

Leroy hates me. I've just come back from The Kitty Cafe. This was my companion. 🥰

That was the cute photo. I have one with his look of terror as he fell off the cushion

I thought this thread was going to give me 100 ways to get pills down my cat's reluctant throat.

Here is Buster, taking a nap on our new, expensive chair.

And her is his accomplice, McVicar.

@Jemima232 - crush tablet, mix in to Lick-e-Lix, give to cat.

But not the Chicken one, the Salmon one or the Milk one according to Leroy. This week 🙄.

Here you go @Jemima232, an oldie but a classic attached.

Splendid felines. McVicar looks extremely refined. Buster looks extremely reclined.

Mr Oliver Ramsey is sampling a ham and cheese omelette. Lots of noisy slurping and paw washing going on

Fudgesome tortie naughties

'That's my spot. You're in my spot. LEONARD! She's in my spot!'

@YesItsMeIDontCare

Thank you for Leroy's valuable advice re - giving tablets to cats.

I could so with some advice on catching the bastards, too.

Buster and McVicar just wandered into our house one day, four years ago, and never left. it may have been my fault as I fed them

Therefore, we didn't have them as kittens so they have never let us pick them up.

I did try to find their owners - put posters up and looked for posters - but neither were chipped and they seemed to be underfed. Buster was very frightened, too - it was ages before he let us even stroke him.

Anyway - fast forward to today - when they have to go to the vet for anything it can take hours to catch them. We've had to cancel appointments because the patient has escaped into the middle distance.

Duh. Any advice gratefully received.
Perhaps I should email Leroy directly.

I casually start shutting doors beforehand so about an hour before mine ends up either shut in the bathroom or hallway. Less room to escape and nowhere to hide

I do remember trying to catch Ollie once and it was when he was full of snot and sneezing and flu. He wasn't having it and I sat on the floor and cried that I was only trying to help him or he could be miserable forever

Not even joking he looked at me and walked straight in his carrier

@YesQueen

I have known McVicar to jump into the toilet rather than be caught by me or DH.

Our bungalow is small. The doors do not stay shut. I seem to end up straddled between doors, keeping them shut, while DH gets scratched.

Then that awful, heart-rending miaowling starts.

But on a brighter note - at least it isn't I who has the flesh wounds.

Do you do the stand carrier on end and drop them in bum first? I have resorted to throwing a towel over and shoving entire squeaking cat and towel in the carrier. He repaid me for that by throwing up over me, the car, and the vet

@YesQueen

Yes, DH inserts them bum first.

It's corralling them that is the problem. Once they're in the hall, all is well. But if they see the carriers, they hide behind the telly and won't go into the hall.

And I've just come up with a solution. Put the two carriers in to the bathroom, corral the cats, then get the carriers out of the bathroom, one by one.

We take them at the same time, for their jabs.

McVicar was ill last year and had to go six times. We got pretty good at catching her - but it's easier when there's just one.

Bah. I'm sorry that your cat threw up on everything. They really hate the whole Carrier Experience, don't they?

Catching cats is 90% luck, 10% wearing the scars with pride.

I wouldn't dare put Leroy in bum first... the dangerous sharp bitey end goes in first!

Ollie "Mama has STUPID new shoes. Why are they not a photo of me?"

Leroy : "MY Mama has brilliant shoes!"

I wanted the black ones too! Couldn't find them though

(And possibly the same carpet 😂)

Did Leonard move Weezolcat?

Bugger the cat, where I can get those shoes?