How to safely give pills to cats

Cats are lovable animals but they don't love taking pills. Cat bites can be very painful, so to avoid such, there are a few tips to giving pills to cats that may be of use.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Pill
• Fingers
• Cat
• Pill popper or edge of pen

How to safely give pills to cats

1. Get pill in hand, or put on edge of pill popper or pen.

2. Scruff cat on back of neck....they are used to this from their mothers. Open mouth of cat by manipulating jaw.

3. Drop pill on the back of the tongue in the MIDDLE. If you do it to the side, cat will spit it out.

4. Close cat mouth, and rub bottom of neck till tongue comes out and 'licks' the top of the mouth. THEN---look to see if pill is around.

Tips & Warnings

• Cats can be cooperative with this if you are gentle.
• Sometimes you have to be more assertive than gentle.

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on 10/25/2009 We have a 10 year old male cat that is impossible to get hold of. He wreaths out of any hold, and I am too afraid of clamping down on him very hard. Kind of like trying to hold on to a greased pig.
We have about 2 weeks worth of anti-biotics to give him and it seems impossible. I've always had animals, and I've given both cats and dogs meds. But it's never been quite like this. Funny thing is, is that when we both try to hold him down and he escapes, 10 min. later he's back like it never happened. Any suggestions ?
Mick