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Summary: Learn how to give your cat its liquid medication without a fight in this free video.
Dr. Adrienne Mulligan started her lifelong dream to be a veterinarian at Oakridge High School in Oakridge, Tennessee. She graduated in 1977 and moved on to the University of Tennessee...read more
" Hi! I am Dr. Adrienne Mulligan and I am the owner of Camp Verde Veterinary Clinic and I am here today on behalf of expertvillage.com to talk to you about cat first aid and administration of medications. There are other ways to give medications to cats besides pills. So you can get liquids. There are also compounding pharmacies that will make any kind of a pill into a better tasting liquid but for the most part we find we get away with the ones that we have available and some cats really need the compounded ones that taste better. But what I am going to do is show you how to give a cat a liquid. Now I like again to wrap up a cat that is potentially dangerous, but I also really like to scruff because it helps them open their mouth a little bit and then I put the dropper to the very back and I like to see them do that, I like to see them moving their tongue and moving their mouth, because it means they are swallowing. If they are not doing that and you are squirting a liquid in, it can go down their trachea. So you want to see them moving their tongue, moving their jaw, acting like they are eating. So that is how you give him a liquid medicine."
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pumkinhead1234 said
on 10/10/2009 My otherwise gentle cat will not tolerate this procedure unless I am holding her so tight that I am concerned that I will hurt her; she is a skinny cat and not much at the suggested holding location to hold onto; am using the towel correctly, and tilting her head back by your method; calming her as much as possible; situating her on a table at the height indicated, but my cat still is having significant problem with this method of delivery. She will not take the liquid medication by just offering it in any food or liquid, and otherwise she is very difficult to pill. We use a compounding pharmacy and they use a triple fish base; she is foaming at the mouth with the liquid medication and the active ingredient is suggested as not too bitter since it is a benzoate of generic flagyl; we are getting it down every third try, but have wasted much expensive medication due to failure of the ...
hmjoyce said
on 9/5/2008 My daughter's cat needed medicine while visiting "grandma". The cat is a psycho cat and when I learned he had to have liquid medicine and I thought NO WAY. The video was extremely helpful and the liquid medicine actually made it in the cat's mouth instead of all over me. Thank you for this helpful learning tool.
kittnen said
on 8/2/2008 Thank you! My cat is sick right now with a URI and I can use this to teach my boyfriend how to give him his antibiotics when I'm not around.