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[Epona]

Alright, so Sonic is now on a 6 week! course of antibiotics to see if it clears up his nasal issues - can I just sing the praises of Easypill - it is a little bar that looks like a turd in a foil wrapper, but you just pinch a bit off and smush it around a pill - and the cat eats it! Like it was a treat or something! Sonic, who has always been the WORST one of mine to get pills into goes - ooh I like this and just eats it.

So anyway he has these great big pills and has to have half a day for the next 6 weeks - I quarter them and he gets 2 smushed up easypill treats with his pills before a meal, I make sure he is hungry beforehand so it all goes down. I also have a pill cutter which helps with big pills and a small dose!

 

[stavros]

Both worming pill and flea drops are scheduled for this weekend:

 

[fucthest8]

So... Sonic is on a long course of antibiotics for his nasal issues - 6 weeks of pills. I said to the vet that last time I tried to pill the cat, he ended up on my head and screaming his lungs out - the vet said have you tried easypill? I was all "no but tell me more" - and pills went into my cat very easily as a result!

Easypill is a pliable wedge of meat flavoured sludge - you break a bit off and kind of knead it around the pill so the pill is covered, then your cat thinks it is getting a treat and begs you for easypill because he loves it so much... pilling a cat set to easy mode... mind blown...

(I actually feel a little resentful about all the times I have been scratched or bitten when trying to medicate a cat, having found there is an easy setting).

I use pate. He's got a heart condition.

Yeah, I know

Look at him though.




E2A Sorry to hear about Sonic, seems like the poor bugger has been through the rinse a bit over the last few months (((Sonic))) (((Epona)))

 

[davesgcr]

Our fat and sometimes awkward Tabby got another baby rat today - left outside for a change. I have thanked her.

 

[Me76]

I had cat shenanigans overnight.

I woke up around 4ish to find all of the duvet was between me and the wall, which was strange. But the thing that had woken me up was a clawing sound and it was Orson doing circles on his back on the side of the bed that had no duvet (so cute) So once I'd told him he couldn't do that and he gave me a disappointed face, I tried to sort out the duvet.

So I'm trying to work out where the edge is, and pulling, and then Ozzie suddenly falls out. She'd been wrapped in it like a sausage roll and gave me total grumpy face for stopping her being wrapped up.

Love them both so much.

 

[Epona]

I use pate. He's got a heart condition.

Yeah, I know

Look at him though.

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E2A Sorry to hear about Sonic, seems like the poor bugger has been through the rinse a bit over the last few months (((Sonic))) (((Epona)))

I would have considered paté if I actually ate the stuff myself, could share it with him and get some lunches out of it - it's just in the bracket of foodstuffs that I don't actively hate, and will eat it if it is served to me - but it wouldn't normally occur to me to make or buy it and I am not mad keen on it, the idea of helping out with 6 weeks worth of paté does not appeal

 

[Puddy_Tat]

She'd been wrapped in it like a sausage roll

the technical term is

 

[donkyboy]

Rogue wearing a top hat:

 

[Me76]

Rogue wearing a top hat:

Where the does that come from? Gorgeous though.

 

[donkyboy]

Where the does that come from? Gorgeous though.

its the cap to a vape tank I have. seemed perfect as a hat.

 

[Epona]

Rogue wearing a top hat:

Your cat looks so chilled out -Sonic would have shaken that off his head and eaten it (and probably be on his way to the vet to have it surgically removed) before I could turn the camera on...

 

[Cloo]

Just hanging out in the cupboard with Tiger:

 

[Motown_ben]

Owning the dog bed

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[Cloo]

The dog is definitely not having the bed, then.

 

[donkyboy]

Happy St Patrick's Day from Rogue:

 

[Calamity1971]

Happy St Patrick's Day from Rogue:

That's a, 'I never forget' face right there

 

[Epona]

Doing a daily (well, nightly) fast with the boys so that Sonic eats his meds and then a meal to make sure his meds have gone down (risk of oesophagitis if they aren't followed by food), is not the most fun I have ever had.

Sonic needs to be crying before I can have some guarantee that he is going to take his medications in the easypill stuff.

That means about 3 hours of "but I'm a bit hungry!" behaviour beforehand (and trust me, when an OSH is a bit hungry, that means full-on pestering)

 

[Epona]

Also Jakey has noticed the cord on my hoodie that I am wearing indoors right now because it is cold, and keeps trying to grab it - I could end up strangled by one of my cats

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[Epona]

Honestly, I have been wearing this hoodie for years, he has just noticed the cord - he is not the brightest spark. Of course now he has seen it, I am having trouble keeping him off me and may need to destroy the hoodie to get some peace

 

[Me76]

Afternoon nap. On my side of the bed.

 

[fishfinger]

Leyla says "If I sits, I fits."

 

[stavros]

Whilst the duvet cover's being washed:

 

[Epona]

Even with the easypill squishy stuff, Sonic is still being difficult - we take up his food for a few hours until he is crying to be fed, I separate them all (so only Sonic gets the meds!) then put his pills smushed in the easypill stuff in his bowl - he still looks at me like "wtf is this?" He does eventually eat them when he is sure nothing better is on the way. Yes my cats are very spoiled little brats!

 

[donkyboy]

bella and chloe under the duvet

 

[Reno]

Alfie working a sphinx vibe:

 

[Shirl]

It's not just me who's had enough of Brexit on television news

 

[Epona]

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Alfie working a sphinx vibe:

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Tetris cat fits into all the spaces...

(He is lovely btw)

 

[Mumbles274]

Barbs is cool

 

[CosmikRoger]

It's been over 4 years now since my wife brought a wild kitten into our home. She will only drink from a running tap, so this is what I see every time I clean my teeth. She runs in front of me meowing like a road drill, jumps into the sink and pouts.


Gotta admit, she's starting to win me over.