"Apollo!! Nooo!!"

[ciroccoj]

Apollo's got a bit of a tummy bug. The pills the vet prescribed are not to his liking, so after trying to force them down his throat and putting them into Pill Pockets ("Wrap the pill in tuna! Your cat will never know!") unsuccessfully, Chris and Justin decided to grind the pills into his food. Problem: Jehovah's food doesn't have ground-up Yuck in it. Apollo sees no reason why he shouldn't just eat her food instead. So he has to be kept in the boys' room, upstairs, until he finishes his mediciney food, so that he doesn't just eat all of Jehovah's food instead.

This means that every time the door to the boys' room is opened, somebody ends up shouting "Apollo! NOOO!" and running after him as he makes a break for it. Usually he gets down one set of stairs, skids around the corner and is halfway down to the basement before anybody catches him.

Comments

[arienaru.livejournal.com]

Cats have this diastema -- gap -- in their teeth. So you can (presuming it's not a total horse pill relative to the size of the cat) grease the pill with something cat-approved like butter, bacon fat, or fish oil, grab the cat, flip the cat on its back (generally on your lap), stuff the pill through the diastema no matter how much jaw-clenching happens, and follow up with a couple ml of lukewarm water from a cheap drugstore syringe. The water compels the cat to swallow.

There will be death-glares, but it works.

[ciroccoj.livejournal.com]

::taking notes::

Will be trying this... possibly filming it too ;)

Thanks!