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- From: david@tms390.micro.ti.com (David Thomas)
- Subject: Re: Giving Pills to our Fuzzy Friends
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.234807.9860@tms390.micro.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Houston
- References: <1993Jan27.194342.21057@ncar.ucar.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:48:07 GMT
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- vicki@steam.atd.ucar.edu (Vicki Holzhauer) writes:
- >Actually, pills would almost be preferable to that horrible pink
- >liquid antibiotic vets always give out. I hate giving it to the girls
- >almost as much as they hate getting it. Even if I wrap them up
- >tightly in a towel before administering it and keep their heads as
- >still as possible, they still wind up with that pink glop all over
- >their beautiful fur, and then they're so mad at me that they don't
- >even want to hold still for me to clean it off ... :-(
-
- I use a 3cc syringe to squirt the Amoxi-Drops into the cats' mouths.
- No needle, of course, just a plastic syringe. It's faster and more
- accurate than the little eye-dropper in the bottle. Otherwise, it's
- fairly standard technique: with the cat facing away from me, I pin the
- cat to the floor between my knees, tilt the head back, pry open the
- jaws for a split-second, squirt it in the back of the mouth, and let
- 'em go. I still get dirty looks from them (that pink stuff must taste
- bad), but at least I get it all on the inside of the cat.
-
- Ask your vet for a syringe the next time he prescribes Amoxi.
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- David Thomas Texas Instruments (david@wotangate.sc.ti.com) (713)-274-2347
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