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Nothing like figuring out strategies to medicate a cat!
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One thing’s better: thinking you don’t have a post ready for the coming day, it’s 11:45 pm, then you find a pretty good one sitting in draft that is all there and ready to go! I just forgot the final step of moving it onto the schedule pile! I guarantee that the one I started to do before I found I had this ready to go was looking pretty poor.
Doug, Andy’s pupils look like they are different sizes. Might be the photo, but that doesn’t seem right.
I’ve asked his veterinarian about it. She indicated it looked OK in his eyes. I wonder if he is blind in that eye. I can’t see any problem with him getting around and avoiding things on that side, but I have no experience with blindness in cats.
He’s always had a bit of nerve damage (like Bell’s syndrome) in that eye, which has an eyelid, too, that operates weirdly. After shingles on that side of my face, I’ve had a only eye like that, too. Anyway, today, the 17th, I have to take him to his make-up appointment. I’ll mention the dilated eye issue, again.
Got your message and replied.
I’ll check it out.
The Grey Menace believed that a bit of O negative blood always helped the medicine go down. pilling him, or drops, was always a combat adventure. At least Andy doesn’t prepare you for a trip to the emergency room. He really is a sweet kitty!
Yet! I’m a living proof thst Amanda’s claws are functional. I never am completely free of healing cat scratches. I must have just the right antibodies to survive my sweetie!
So, after he ran away, did he just forget? Or did he think YOU would forget?
Probably the latter. It’s a tedious game.
He was cold and frightened when he was found next to a snowdrift by the apartment. There was a door like mine, and he probably thought he was home but ignored. The boy who found him had no problem picking him up.
His face is sooo cute! 🥰😻
It is!
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Yeah!
Medicating cats requires us to be flexible. As soon as they figure out a pattern, we have to switch it up!
It’s pretty much wasted my chances of a normal life. I’m talking with his veterinarian about it today, the 17th.
I don’t remember what Andy gets meds for but maybe there’s another way. Some meds can be compounded to rub on the inner ear and that can be easier depending on the cat. I had two cats that refused (REFUSED ALL CAPS) liquid meds. When they were prescribed antibiotics I made sure they got the 2 week injection. Cats are not like dogs. You can’t hide it in a piece of cheese.
Such a business
One that probably helps an old kitty and an old man build up mental acuity! He figures out how to stay unavailable for medication, and I figure out how to catch an uncooperative kitty. Tomorrow, the 14th, incidentally, he has a veterinarian follow-up appointment. It’s “catch the kitty” time again!
Andy! You came close to getting by without your med … Almost, but not quite ….
I seem to have temporary control of the process till Andy wises up and tries a new tactic. I am sure he is up to the challenge. He’s a smart one!
da phenny is the same… he thinks to run away is the solution… ;O)))
Andy hasn’t picked up on the trick yet. Just this morning, he ran out of the room again when he realized what was coming next. I got his medicines prepared and in the front room where Andy and I were a little before medicine time. It was the schedule time when he returned. He stopped by my chair, I reached under his tummy and put a hand on top of his back, flipped him up and over, wrapped him in a towel, and medicated my little darling! Woohoo! I’m not surprised da phenny tries the same trick, the little rascal! The both must think cuteness blinds us to medicating them!