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A little discussion between llizard and me about the best way to give
pills to a cat:

[VK:]
Giving pills to cats can be very interesting..... (I have developed a
technique where I have a water balloon pump (small round thing with one
input and one output valve) that i fill with water. Then I put the pump so
I can reach it. Next to it I put the pill. Then I grab the cat by the neck
(gently of course) and open its mouth by pressing on its jaws (now I hold
the cat with ONE hand around the neck and it is the same hand that holds
the mouth open, this way I have my right hand free and can use that to put
the pill as far down the cat's throat as possible. I still hold my grip on
the neck and jaws! When the cat tries to spit the pill by wriggling its
tongue and moving anything that it can move I take the pump and push a few
drops of water into the cat's throat... now, to avoid choking, the cat has
to swallow and when the water goes down the pill goes down with it... The
cat hates it but this way you can make sure the pill is acutally swallowed
and not just kept at the back of the mouth somewhere and spit out
later...)

[ejm:]
> He
> has probably already forgotten the ordeal by the time we get him back
> into the car to take him home. As I said, we had to give him two pills a
> day, for 7 days. What a struggle! T gave him the first one at the
> clinic just to make sure Oscar would allow it and there was no problem
> at all. But the first night just before I went to the theatre, he tried
> again and Oscar would not open his mouth. T was prying and prying
> at it to try to get it open.

right out at the "ends"? ('.'s in the picture below...)

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(that is a cat's mouth if you don't see that...)



(Gif Illustration here)