Eye drops... Aaaaaagh!!!

[JorisBonson]

13 year old grumpy old girl needs eye drops twice a day.

DP is currently away Mon - Fri for work. He is the only person she likes 🙄 he's the only person that can pick her up, the only lap she'll sit on... I'm sure you can see where this is going!

I managed to do it in my own last night while she was lounging on the top step. Today has been a different story.

I've been doing the softly softly approach, trying to soothe her whilst sneakily getting a drop in her eye. Doesn't work.

Tried picking her up. Arm is bleeding.

Tried grabbing (gently) her scruff. She got out of that and hit and scratched me (multitasking).

None of my nearby friends are cat people, and cat is not a people person (except DP).

Any tips for a miserable, aggressive old cow who absolutely will not be handled by me?

I had to do this for a friends’ cat but luckily had someone to help me. Wrapping the cat in a towel is meant to work if you are doing it on your own. Would a friend find it easier to be the eye drop person while you hold the cat? We also gave him dreamies and lick-e-lix afterwards and so he forgave us.

I have tried the towel but she turns into liquid and gets out 😂

At the moment I'm trying the "drop from a height" technique and she has a very wet face

I'm usually very cat confident but this girl is something else! DP found her in the street as a tiny kitten and rescued her, she hates literally everyone and everything but him.

You have to be REALLY quick but while she's asleep. Mine is used to me poking around his ears/eyes though
Or kneel down, cat facing away, scruff with one hand and drops with the other. I can empathise, it's not easy!
Sometimes cream is easier as you can blob it in

@ClientQueen I wish they'd given us cream! I think I could have done that one.

She's just sat at the door staring at me and is definitely plotting my demise.

Which of you will survive till Friday I wonder?.

The smart odds are on her 😂

Have you tried reasoning with her...??

I pointed out to idiot cat that if he did not eat his tablets I would have to wrap him up, up end him and poke them down his throat and that really neither of us wanted that, he ate them like a good boy from the top of his cat food, but as I said, he IS an idiot.

Girl cat is pretty feisty but also responds to reason for claw clipping, although you have to be quick....she has a claw that grows really fast into her toebean.

Otherwise just practise the towel wrapping...get a really big one, aim it at the cat so about two thirds is to one side, cross it over under their chin, (enclosing front paws,) get the short (one third) side under, get the long (two thirds) side up and over and round scoop up whole cat tucking in excess from behind underneath...up end cat and administer drops.
Buy back her affection with naice ham, or corned beef.

No advice because my cat is really easy and exceptionally placid. I'm a paediatric nurse and she's easier to dose than most of our patients!

Yes our other two are a dream, they take meds like champs and are generally nide cats. This girl is not.

I think I managed to get some in her eye this morning by stroking her - she was presenting to enjoy it, and when she looked up I squeezed the bottle. She promptly hissed and ran away so I'm taking that as a good sign.

GREAT SUCCESS. She very unusually came to me looking for affection, so I skooshed eye drops in her eye. That'll learn her.

She won’t do that again 😂

Oh OP, just seen this & made me laugh i’m afraid.

Putting stuff in cats eyes is just the worst task and they are so matter of fact & cavalier about it when they prescribe the stuff at the vet!!

‘Oh, ‘just’ ‘pop’ this in fourteen times a day & it’ll clear up in no time’

JUST, Dr, really???? Have you ever met a cat per chance??????

Oh sure, he/she will sit there, good as gold while at the practice, seemingly volunteering for the drops but its a totally different story at home!!!

Hope ‘operation’ eye is going well & nearly/fully resolved now :)

@BibiBlocksberg I think the vet hates me - MORE drops for the next week. DP is back from his work course permanently on Friday. In the meantime I fear for the skin on my hands.

I think I did a fairly good job and thought her eye looked good as new but nooooo.

Maybe you’ll invent a way of administering them, patent it and make a fortune.

Snorg is feeling smug as she's quite good with hers. She says to tell her feline cousins not to be such big babies and to just let their humans do it. As it means extra dreemies for being so good.

I've just had to metacam up our little boy (he came home on Friday with some sort of clay / mud and what looked like a Christmas tree stuck all over his paw. Absolutely fine, just a bit limpy) and it was like the most boring good dream ever. He takes it down, knows he gets treats after, then goes about his day. Why oh why can't they all be like that?

DP is away again now, probably laughing as he goes.