What should I do if a cat is sick and refuses to take medicine? Teach you practical skills for cat feeding medicine! When a cat is sick, it needs to be treated in time with medicine, but we must have experienced it in our daily lives that giving medicine to a cat is really not an easy task. The cat will not obediently let us hold it and feed the medicine, unless it is weak to a certain level, and the cat is quick to move and can quickly slide down from you and hide. The various obstacles encountered during the feeding process will reduce the effectiveness of the drug or cause waste, which we do not want to see.
drugs can be divided into two types according to their shape, one is solid and the other is liquid. The methods when feeding medicine are different according to different shapes. Although it is difficult for cats to feed medicine, there is always one that can work if you try various feeding methods.
1. Standard method
1. Prepare the medicine.
Prepare the medicine, place it on a tissue, and place it near the environment where the cat is inhabited, so that when the cat's mouth is opened, it can take advantage of the situation to grab the pill and put it in its mouth. The drug aid is a bit like a pill syringe. The rubber tip can be placed on the pills. When the time comes, you can push the piston and let the cat take the pills. A syringe filled with clear water can help the cat swallow pills.
2. Raise the cat, wrap one arm around it, and open its mouth with the other. It will be better to place your cat on a raised countertop with towels or blankets (such as a dressing table or workbench).
3. Open the cat's mouth.
Pinch the cat's mouth with its thumb and ring finger, arch its nose with its middle and index fingers, and be careful not to block its nostrils with its fingers. The fingers should be located on both sides of the nose.
4. Put the medicine into the cat's mouth. If it looks difficult to swallow, you can give it a little water to help swallow. If you are feeding pills, put them in the cat's mouth quickly. Be careful not to spray liquid medicine directly into the cat's throat or tongue. Liquid easily flows into the trachea, which may cause cats to suffocate. When feeding liquid medicines, a dropper should be inserted between the cat's cheeks and teeth.
5. Slap the cat's throat, or quickly hit the cat's nose to make the medicine swallow.
6. Treat the cat gently throughout the whole process. This encourages the cat to swallow the medicine, making the feeding process less difficult.
2. Other feasible methods
1. For thick gel-like drugs, such as tube-loaded drugs (as far as the prevention of hairballs), any of the following methods or combinations of methods can be used to feed. Put the required dose of medicine on your fingers and put your fingers into your cat's mouth. They are easy to lick. If the cat is very resistant, or there are still medicines on his hands, just wipe off the medicines on his hands with gel and apply them to the cat's paws or around his mouth. The cat will lick the paws and mouth clean and digest the gel.
2. When feeding pills, you can crush the pills and mix cow cheese. Apply to the cat's front legs. The cat will lick it immediately, which is equivalent to taking medication.
3. Pill bags can make cats swallow pills without any notice.
4. Pick the cat up and bend your left arm into a cradle and shake it gently, like holding a child. Press the index finger and thumb of your right hand on both sides of the cat's mouth, gently press the cheeks, and hold the pills in your right hand when doing all this. When the cat opens its mouth, it quickly throws the pill in and lets it close its mouth and swallow it.
5. Retrieve the cat from the bedroom and throw away the pills that are stained with the cat's saliva. Peel the foil outside the other tablet, hold the cat on the left arm and hold it firmly on the hind foot. Force it to open its mouth and use its right index finger to push the tablet to the back of its mouth. Chasing its mouth, counting until ten before letting go.
3. Precautions
1. If you are taking liquid medicine, you can use a tissue and cut it out to let the cat drill its head in and use it as a bib so that the potion will not be filled everywhere.
2. Before you are stalemate with the cat and are about to resist, be sure to quickly put the pills into the cat's mouth. This is why it is best to prepare medicines before you keep your cat under control.
3. If you need to use medicine through other parts, be sure to keep the cat still until the medicine is absorbed and cannot be dripped out.