How to Give Cats Liquid Medication

Video Transcript

"Ace and I are going to show you how to administer medication that's in a liquid form. You can have two pieces of equipment. Two tools to use to administer medication that's a liquid. One is a dropper that just has a little squeeze ball on the top and you'll squirt this liquid into his mouth. This is actually a little bit of food and some water. So you open the mouth, tilt it back like that and just squirt that medication in. As long as you get it back in his mouth he'll have to swallow it. Now the second way you may want to give medication is by an oral feeding syringe. You can see that this has a wide tip so it will let a large sort of pasty material through or a thick liquid through pretty easily. And you can use the syringe to measure up the amount precisely. So same thing. You want to tilt the head back. Grasp the lips just behind these big canine teeth here. And you see how Ace opens his mouth automatically when I put his head in that position. Then you just stick the dropper end in and squirt. Now he may need a break and so you may have to do it a second time"