How to administer worming tablets

[Xmasfairy86]

Exactly as the title suggests!

I don’t think I’m capable of opening his mouth and launching the tablet down, without being eaten 😆 I’ve crushed it, but he won’t eat his food then 🤦🏽‍♀️

any magic foods that it can be hidden in? Or other tips on getting it in!

Ignore cat.
When cat is annoyed enough with you ignoring them and come up to you to tell you off, grab them. Wrap carefully concealed towel around them.
Open their mouth and put tablet inside.
Hold onto cat until they swallow tablet. Cat may be more likely to do this if you gently rub their throat. Or not.
Place cat down.
Apologise.
Offer treats.
Plan next time. It will be more difficult.

I found it much easier when the vet prescribed the drop on type - Profender

Easy Pill cat putty! Someone here recommended it and I only wish I’d known about it sooner. Cat just gobbles down a small ball of putty shaped around the pill. Doesn’t touch the sides! It has made giving him pills really easy and he thinks it’s the most amazing treat.

Hold cat in a position s/he likes. gently wrap a towel around them to enclose paws (tightly!) Reassure cat. Hold it for a while so the stress levels can subside. Second person squeezes cat jaw to open it's mouth, then pops pill in as quickly as possible. Aim for centre of tongue or it will ger spat out. Hold mouth firmly and tap the throat which will make it swallow. Job done. Reward with dreamies or treat of choice

Can be bought online here for example

Use Profender spot on. Or better still Broadline spot on which also has flea and tick protection.

Advice from The Canadian Veterinary Journal:
How to give a cat a pill:
Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow.
Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat in left arm and repeat process.
Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away.
Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm, holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for a count of ten.
Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse from garden.
Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into mouth. Drop pill down ruler and rub cat's throat vigorously.
Retrieve cat from curtain rail, get another pill from foil wrap. Make note to buy new ruler and repair curtains. Carefully sweep shattered figurines and vases from hearth and set to one side for gluing later.
Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with head just visible from below armpit. Put pill in end of drinking straw, force mouth open with pencil, and blow down drinking straw.
Check label to make sure pill not harmful to humans, drink 1 beer to take taste away. Apply Band-Aid to spouse's forearm and remove blood from carpet with cold water and soap.
Retrieve cat from neighbor's shed. Get another pill. Open another beer. Place cat in cupboard, and close door onto neck, to leave head showing. Force mouth open with dessert spoon. Flick pill down throat with elastic band.
Fetch screwdriver from garage and put cupboard door back on hinges. Drink beer. Fetch bottle of Scotch. Pour shot, drink. Apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of last tetanus shot. Apply whiskey compress to cheek to disinfect. Toss back another shot. Throw T-shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.
Call fire department to retrieve the damn cat from tree across the road. Apologize to neighbor who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid cat. Take last pill from foil-wrap.
Tie the little @!!@#@#$%'s front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table, find heavy-duty pruning gloves from shed. Push pill into mouth followed by large piece of steak filet. Be rough about it. Hold head vertically and pour 2 pints of water down throat to wash pill down.
Consume remainder of Scotch. Get spouse to drive you to the emergency room, sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearm and remove pill remnants from right eye. Call furniture shop on way home to order new table.
Arrange for SPCA to collect mutant cat from hell and call local pet shop to see if they have any hamsters.

How to give a dog a pill:
Wrap it in cheese.

@ipswichwitch Love it and so easy to imagine. Yes I've been there. Told vet on cat's first visit our lovely lad was so gentle, wouldn't hurt a fly. Total pussy cat!! Ah! But he did have a thing about vets. Vet had to apply industrial strength gauntlets and still ended up with the cat on the floor. In big red writing on record card he wrote C A R E. Didn't go that vet again.

Like this:

I’ve used various methods in the past with varying levels of success but a vet recently demonstrated a cat pill popper.

Bloody Life Changing!

You can buy it on Amazon and probably elsewhere - google ‘cat tablet dispenser’.

Get the furbaby by the scruff of the neck, and lift them up slightly, mouth may open naturally, if it doesn’t, nudge the side of the mouth with the pill dispenser, and aim for the back of the throat.

I also give them wet food afterwards to ensure the pill stays down and isn’t puked up.

But genuinely wrapping in a towel and wearing gardening gloves is the way forward. Good luck.

lots to take in! my friend watched the vet use a pill popper and was mesmorized, so that may be an option. didn't realise I could purchase such a device

with the older cat we used prinocate (I think?) which was an all in one dropper, but the new vet hasn't offered that.

Either catch them while they are really drowsy, gently nudge open their mouth and throw it in then hold their chin up till they've swallowed. Or the wrap in a towel technique. I do this on the kitchen counter next to the fridge so they can't reverse out of the back of the towel. One of mine has a tablet every other day, I have had a lot of practice but usually manage the snoozy technique. Always do it somewhere you won't lose the tablet if they spit it out.

The vet showed me the pill popper when I was fostering a very sick feral cat that had to have three pills per day for about a month.

Both the cat and I were traumatized by the experience in the first few days while we waited for the pill popper to arrive.

She has since forgiven me and is currently hogging the couch, lying on her back, exposing her tummy with two paws up in the air? The month long fostering arrangement ended with me adopting her.

What can I say? It was a bonding experience!

Good grief, I don’t do deworming pills, I value my fingers. Our experience of trying to pill the cat was much as described in the Canadian Vet Journal. Pill poppers, burrito technique, pill pockets, crushing pull in favorite food, nothing works. He used to get the Profender Spot-on, but now Bravecto has an integrated flea/tick/dewormer that only needs doing once quarterly. It’s well worth the outrageous expense.