First is to firmly grasp the cat by the scruff of the neck with the non-dominant hand and use the thumb and index or third finger to put tension and even pressure just behind the jaw. Most cats will eventually open the mouth or at least relax the jaw so that you can insert a dropper or pill gun (see next point) into the buccal pouch.

Dropper, syringe or pill gun – insert as far as possible into the buccal pouch and whn meeting resistance posteriorly, slide medially and posteriorly, injecting quickly. Cats do great gagging, so keep firmly scruffed and tilt head back to encourage swallowing. Blowing on the nose sometimes encourages swallowing. (But do the obvious and have cat’s limbs secured in toweling or in a soft sided travel carrier with just the head exposed.

Pill gun – video from Cornell (which is THE ultimate feline veterinary care resource site) is at the link at my name

I still have faint scars on my wrists. In fact, it was so bad at the time, a doc (he had never treated me before) I visited for a suspected chest infection saw the scratches and intimated that perhaps I was “cutting”myself.

I never saw that funny piece before but it’s so true!

I have a love/hate relationship with our current cat-Sneakers. I have mentioned this over at Scalpel’s. He is THE most destructive cat we have ever had and he has ME trained! I resent him for it too!

“FedExed him to Mongolia” Think we’d get a discount for group rates? what a tempting thought.

OK, I am sorry that I am deriving some kind of misery loves company pleasure because your cat pees on your comforter. Our cat pees on the bathroom mats! All the time when he can’t go outside!

He ALWAYS used his cat box when he was an indoor cat but ignorance is bliss I guess. We tried to keep him as an indoor cat but he got out so many times that we just gave up.

There isn’t a spec of anything in the cat box other then virgin cat litter because ever since he had the pleasure of the great outdoor kitty box he refuses to go back to his indoor box. He opts for the bath mats which I am constantly having to wash. It is worse in the winter because he doesn’t like going out in the cold. So it has backfired on him a little because I throw… Um… put him outside anyway so I can have a break. Do they have cat foley caths? Think that would be hard to do and give him a little mini bag with a strap on his leg? Serve him right.

So I put up with the bath mats because he could bring me to my knees in desperation if he ever decided to take a whiz on our living room carpet. It is a wool floral and cannot be steam cleaned. Shhh…he doesn’t know how much I love that rug.

I caught him recently going on the hall rug because the door was shut to the bathroom. I can not have this. Seriously. I tolerate the bath mats because I can pick them up and wash them but can’t otherwise. Speak of the devil he wants to come in now.

BTW…he is like Spider Cat because where most cats just meow at the door…he INSTANTLY leaps on any given screen that he decides he would like entrance through. He does the spider Cat walk up the sliding door screen (100.00 to replace), he instantly jumps on the front door screens. One leap and he hangs there until you let him in. There are holes again. He started doing it with the new windows/screens we had put in. He also scratches furniture, the new window sills with the new windows and tears up our family room rug which is fairly new.

Suffice it to know that cat #4 is the poster cat for me never wanting to own another cat as long as I live. And I say it to my family all the time. The other three were so easy by comparison, except for having to give cat #3 his medicine.

He did redeem himself somewhat the other night because he caught a mouse.

Oh and I really do love him…he does cute things and he’s beautiful and then he puts another wedge in because of his bad behavior. He’s got me totally paranoid about cat urine odors but I’m trained to check mats and wash immediately. Hot soapy machine water works every time. He’s gonna drive me to therapy!

One last thing. Our 1st cat was so pampered and he was my baby until we had our first son who then took center stage with us. i also was nervous as a new mom and thought every time I touched the cat that I had to wash my hands before touching our new son. So I often ended up gently nudging him away with my elbow.

Well one night while I was cooking dinner, I turned around just in time to see our cat jump into the empty car seat that was sitting on the table. He sat in it and stared at me and i immediately knew something was wrong. Yup! He PEED in the baby’s car seat!

He knew exactly what he was doing and i guess he let me know what he thought of our newest family member and apparently his rival. i was upset with him but also realized I had hurt him by neglecting him and I felt bad about that.

I was also astounded at his thought processes.

I am sorry this is so long and I actually took the rest of it an turned it into a post. I hope you don’t mind but I was inspired by this post and i linked to you again.

Kegaling CAT! Hilarious!