Some days are just not as organized as others. Andy best shows how I feel for missing my 2:00 AM target. (Sad kitten eyes works on me. I hope it works on you! I need some sympathy just now.) Seems I slept a bit more than usual yesterday after dialysis and didn’t get anything prepared for the blog today.
So, I share a selection of photos of poor Andy, terrorized by the prospect of taking his blood pressure medicine. I still don’t get it: The medicine is chicken flavored, He loves chicken! (Regardless, remember to be affected by the sad kitten eyes. I’ m counting on it!)
Poor Andy! Ours can get like that at toothbrushing time.
Hope all is OK, Doug. The extra rest is good for you.
Yes, the extra rest was good, and I should try it more often!
Poor Andy. If I had super powers I would cure Andy so he wouldn’t need meds. I would cure your kidney issues, Mr. Doug, and mine, too. Purr purr purr.
He doesn’t have kidney issues, fortunately. I just want the kitty boys to drink adequate water to avoid kidney complications. His medication is for high blood pressure. Being cute, it seems, can be very stressful!
Better late than never 🙂
It was a close one!
That first pic is like Andy is saying, “You forgot my blog??” Hope you got some rest today, too.
Yes, I did. Since the television gave up the ghost, I’ve been getting a lot of rest in the s=time period where I used to watch news programs till almost time to get up.
Who needs a TV anyway!
Thanks to the new TV, I spent the past few days without Internet or television! Seems I plugged one of the cables into the wrong port. The Microsoft troubleshooter got it all wrong, and sent me on a goosechase. But, I’m back now! Moved one cable a fraction of an inch to a nearby port, and the world came back on!
Isn’t is amazing how that works!?
Drives me nuts!
Magnificent cat photos
Thanks! I have good subjects, but they are hard to photograph, thanks to their color and the fact I take most photos in low light simply because it’s usually night when I take them.
The most important thing is that he feels better 🙂
amitiés pour vous trois 🙂
Yes, and is more active!
Awww, those are some powerful sad kitty eyes!
He works the audience with those sad kitten eyes, believe it! LOL!
Just because it says it is chicken flavoured, how do you know! Only one way I can think of. Krunched some dry kibble once by accident and it did not taste as advertised either!
LOL! The thought crossed my mind to try a tiny taste of the medicine, then I convinced myself cat medicine isn’t a good thing to try.
Their pate wet food is chicken. It smells pretty tasty, actually, but their dry food (also “chicken flavored”) smells grainy. I’m not tempted to try either.
I disagree. You can get the same drugs for cats that humans use cheaper! It’s just the chicken flavour you got to get used to!
Andy’s medicine (not encouragingly….!) is banned for use on humans in the USA and the EU!!
you mentioned that his medicine is a liquid Doug.Can you break up some chicken in a bowl & sprinkle the medicine over it?
For all the fuss, Andy takes the medicine mostly well. Some days a bit of it dribbles out of the side of his mouth, but I’ve learned how to avoid that problem for the most part. The medicine on food method would be more problematic, I think, because Dougy would have to be fed in a different place and Andy (and Dougy) have difficulty eating some foods because of their Persian faces. They won’t eat even small pieces of meat unless it is in pate form and turned into a slurry.
thats it! mix it into a pate.Feed Andy first than Dougy.
How it’s handled now saves me the hassle of separate feedings, and Andy is predictable enough that most days I can catch him easily enough to give him the liquid medicine. Actually, I rather enjoy the quiet time (petting, talking with Andy) before the medicine time, and it seems to help him be calm when the icky part comes.
Andy your eyes say it all ;O))) I wonder about that too, Easy once had antibiotics with beef and he hated it. But I have to admit that my BFF got the same med while a holiday on Cuba (never again!) and she didn’t like it either…
The bad part is I can’t taste it (safely!) to verify it tastes like chicken or tastes good, for that matter. Poor Andy has to do all that for himself, and he proclaims it icky! I can’t detect any smell either.
They do know how to use the “guilt trip”…LOl chuq
Definitely! Andy throws in these sad, little kitty sounds, too, that tear your heart out.
Fortunately, I can see that Andy feels better when on his medicine, so none of his protests and sad faces affect me.
Ahhhh! Poor kitty boy….works on me every time! 😸💕xxx
He acts and looks healthier since getting this medicine, so I can ignore his protests!
It’s probably not easy to fool a cat and it’s hard for him to understand how important the medicine is I guess.
All I can do is be as gentle and positive as possible with him. I talk softly to him before I wrap hi in the towel. I pet him and make sure he is as relaxed as possible. Afterwards, I give him kitty treats, so he protests the medicine, but there are happy moments before and after.
Incidentally, Happy 48th Wedding Anniversary again! That is something to be proud off!
Thank you!