Giving Cats Medication

Video Transcript

"So, I wanted to talk to you a little bit about medication. Has your cat had any medication yet? Not that I'm aware of. Ok. What we like to do at McDonald Animal Hospital, is to try and always send home liquid medications that taste good. But, often times I don't think that owner's are able to give medications at home. Because, the kitty cats are so difficult to deal with and they don't like the taste of it. And, so when we send something home for you we're going to try send it as a liquid. Like, if we have to give something for the intestinal parasites if they find some. We're going to probably send a liquid home. So, it will be easy for you to give. But, let me just show you some of the techniques for doing that. When you go ahead and just grab a hold of the head like this, you point the nose up in the air. You can see how the mouth comes open a little bit. When you point it at the air like that, then you're going to put a little bit of that liquid that we're sending home right there. And, you just put it in slowly. Not all at once. And, you're going to watch the kitty cat start going. And, as the fluid goes down you know the cat's swallowing it. Now, again it might help to have somebody else hold the cat. You saw Midnight kind of backed up pretty quickly there. And, so the other thing that we like to teach owners is about controlling a kitty cat. If your cat needed to be picked up and put in his box in an emergency, because there was a fire or something it's perfectly humane to pick a kitty cat up by the scruff of their neck. And, I'll show you this. Do you see how he just goes catatonic like that? And, you can kind of do anything you want with them. They don't really know where they are. And, the reason for that is that's how their mother would take them from one nest to the next. And, so if they were fighting the mother the predators would just follow them to the next nest. And, so it's perfectly humane to pick your kitty cat up that way. And, especially in an emergency or if you're trying to control them to give them medications like that. You really want to try and scruff them and get control over them. I'll show you again. Because, this kitty cat really does just about go catatonic when you pick him up by that. You pick him up by the neck and you can just see, they're just ready to go to their next nest. They really don't know where they are or what they're doing. And, you can kind of that will help you to control your cat if you want to trim their nails or do something like that with them."