Baubles the Cat spent yesterday at the vet’s, having anaesthesia, x-rays and blood tests. She’s now home and basking in the sun, having been dosed on anti-nausea medication and more antibiotics. Basically, the tests were inconclusive (ie they aren’t really sure what was making her sick) – there are signs of kidney problems – one of her kidneys appears to be smaller than the other – and some liver enzymes were present in slightly elevated levels, but nothing really stood out. For the time being the vet has decided to treat her for a possible infection, hence the antibiotics. The anti-nausea meds seem to be doing the trick, too, as she hasn’t been vomiting this morning.
It’s going to be challenging medicating her for the next few days, because she seems to have gotten leery of the pill-slathered-with-seafood trick. This morning saw M and CW wrestling with Baubles the Cat, trying to get a tiny anti-nausea pill down her. This exercise ended with CW’s thumb getting rather painfully bitten, M covered in saliva (Baubles’s), and Baubles the Cat somewhat pissed off. We gave up and I stuck the remains of the pill in a dish of seafood in tuna mornay, and thankfully she ate it. The problem with this solution is that it defies the vet’s instructions to give Baubles “bland food” only for the next week or so. *Sigh*
Picture: Still life with old lemon. (See Flickr for explication.)
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Glad to hear Baubles is on the improve, both for Baubles and you.
Our “dose the cat” trick.
You need….
* Hungry sick cat
* Catfood in a bowl out of reach
* 2 bold people who care enough about said cat to risk injury to selves
* Thick towel
* Pill popping tool you can buy from the vet.
HOW….
1. Call hungry cat.
Person one…the “evil restrainer”, wraps towel around cat so no limbs escape.
2. Person two..the “torturer”…inserts pill into popper and pushes as far down cat’s throat and plunges the plunger.
4. Let cat at the food.
5. Repeat, repeat, repeat until cat has stopped spitting out pill, your wounds are dressed, cat is fed.
Hey CW, I’m glad Baubles is on the mend and hopefully M’s finger.
Tried Kathryns trick…Jack is a very strong cat…we went back to cheese… his favourite
tb, I wish Baubles liked cheese. She’s never been a fan of dairy products, actually.
Poor baby 🙁
Our cats used to love Maltexo – the one with Halibut oil in it. They’d lick it off a spoon so sometimes we’d grind up the pill and mix it into the malt to get it down their throats in a painless (for all concerned) manner.
Problem with Baubles, Penny, is that she gets bored with tricks after a while. The pill-slathering trick worked the first time around, but by the second round of antibiotics she wasn’t interested any longer. I shudder to think what we’re going to have to do the next time she requires meds…