My vet gave me the most wonderful invention yet...

[moriah]

... a Pill Popper!

My little Ninja wised up to the Pill Pockets, which were the greatest thing since bread and cheese for pilling dogs. If your cat likes them and wolfs them down without chewing on them, they are truly a lifesaver. Our previous cat Chloe loved them as snacks, so we'd give her a treat every day just so she wouldn't know the difference when we pilled her. We tried that with Ninja, but apparently these antibiotics are pretty bitter, and he wasn't all that hungry one day and decided to nibble on it instead of swallow it... he won't even eat them as treats now.

It looks like a huge syringe, with a rubber end to hold the pill in place so the kitty that bites doesn't break a tooth. It freaked my man out when he saw it. But it works! And my right index finger can now start healing instead of having more chunks out of it every day....

[Jamastiene]

1. I've always pilled my mother's dog and my cats and dogs

by hand. My mother bought one of those for her dogs and I could never get the hang of it, so I still do it the old fashioned way (throw/shove the pill in and then offer a treat ASAP). For those who have a hard time with the old fashioned way though, it's a great thing to have.

[MrsBrady]

2. our cat had to have antibiotics

that goodness for that thing...

I didn't want to lose a finger. She did not like taking medicine at all.

She knew what it was after a few times.
Always had to go find her...etc...

[Shell Beau]

3. It didn't take Lolly long to figure out there were pills inside the pill pockets.

She gave up on the cheese and peanut butter long ago too. Maybe I will try this.

[kentauros]

4. I started out with a pill-popper and never could get the hang of it.

Then I got a little "training" from the vet using the Pill Pockets, just to get the pill down his throat. After the third time when I was starting to get better at it, he ate it out of my fingers before I could shove it into his mouth! He has eaten them ever since, possibly because he knows he'll get a treat (Greenies) after eating the Pill Pocket. I've been doing this for 4-5 months now and he still loves Pill Pockets :D

Maybe some pets are "smarter" or not as easily fooled. I'm happy mine is easily "convinced" that way, or I think he'd be far less trusting of me from having to hold him down nightly to get a half-pill into him ;)