![]() If you’re placing the medication into a cat’s regular food meal and expecting he or she to eat the whole lot, medicine included, you might end up with your cat refusing to eat the food entirely (if he or she can smell the medicine or taste it, and doesn’t like the smell or taste). The issue with mixing medication into your cat’s food really comes down to the way you do it. Don’t: Mix Medication Into Your Cat’s Regular Food But the next suggestion you have, is a solid could-work, under specific conditions. Not only that, but cats don’t typically drink a whole lot of water at once, so it’s unlikely if your cat drinks medication mixed with water that he or she will get the right dose before he or she’s done drinking.Įssentially this one is a no-go. So any change of flavour of the water, such as in the form of yucky medication going into their water supply, has a good chance of getting your cat to hate drinking to the point where he or she will stop drinking entirely, causing worse problems. Many cats actually need encouraging to drink as much as they should. It’s the option that’s least likely to get your cats to ingest medication, and it could cause your cats, sadly, to dehydrate as well.Ĭats are notoriously bad at drinking water. ![]() Putting medication into a cat’s water is a really bad idea. Hopefully at least one of these will work out – painlessly – for all of you, and you won’t have any more hours waiting for kittens to stop being mad at you to worry about! Techniques for Administering Medicine You Should Avoid 1. Right after I discuss which techniques you’ll want to avoid using for getting a kitty to take medication, I’ll discuss a bunch of tricks you can use to get your cats to hopefully gobble up that medicine without the use of a syringe anyway. One of the two is viable if you do it in a specific way, but I’ll get into that in detail. There are a few issues with the two options you’ve listed, which I’ll go over first. Now, Lizzie, you’re definitely on the right track when it comes to thinking up alternate ways to get your kittens to take that medication without having to use a syringe. It’s so sad!Īny tips for doing this effectively? Can I put the oral med in their food? Water? After a battle of sorts, I’ll give up but both kitties stay mad at me for the next couple of hours. Although they are both incredibly loving, they HATE getting their oral meds via syringe (sulfadimethoxine for some worms… the lady who rescued them gave it to me and I have one more week to go).Įither they despise the taste of it, or I’m just awful at administering it. I’m a new cat owner to two very sweet 5-month-old kittens, sister and brother. The rejection of the medication may be due to the fact that the medicine tastes terrible, or it could be due to the fact that the medicine’s going down with a syringe, and that the whole syringe experience is probably not the most comfortable experience for the two kittens.Įither way, let me show you Lizzie’s email before we get into some tricks for making the pill go down easier for her two kittens (and yes, the “pill” pun was obviously intended): All this led to a battle of wits, where the human (as we often do) folded and looked for a better option. The issue? Pretty obvious as I’m sure you all could guess – even if you hadn’t read the title of this post: these cats really don’t want to take the medication. ![]() I received an email today from a concerned pet parent, Lizzie, who’s got two 5-month-old kittens in need of taking oral medication for deworming for the next week.
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