Product rec & funny

[thistlechaser]

I have no idea who this is, I found it on one of the random LJ image sites. Whoever you are, I love you!



*snickersnerks*

Okay, and on to the rec part of this post!



Pill Pockets are the best things ever. My cat has to get two pills a day (for her entire life). In the beginning it was easy enough, I even have her trained to come up on my desk and sit so I can give it to her. It's been a year though, and she's starting to refuse. Who can blame her? She's a tiny little cat with a little mouth, and I keep sticking my big ol' finger down her throat.

I had been avoiding the Pill Pockets because I figured she'd eat the treat part and spit the pill out, but nope! She bites it once or twice and swallows it whole! Though we just started using them today, so it's possible she might discover the trick of them in the future. I don't think that's too likely. She LOVES these. I mean goes wild for them! (I got the salmon flavored ones instead of the pictured chicken.) I can't see her not gobbling them down.

So if you need to pill your pet, these are totally worth getting. They come in dog sized, too! They're a bit expensive ($7 for 45 of them), but if they make things easier on my cat, I can cope.

Comments

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even thought of that! Oh irony, you are a cruel cruel mistress XD

[gconnor.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the tweet image, that was awesome.

And, I totally love pill pockets too. Our old man kitty would probably have died a year ago if it were not for these. I actually recommended them to someone else recently... which I will reprint here, in case you ever have problems with her not taking them, though it sounds like she loves them, which is totally cool.

I highly recommend pill pockets. In our case, our old man kitty will not eat them directly out of hand but will eat them if we cut them down and stick them to the side of another treat he likes.

My typical pill ritual is to cut one pill pocket into quarters, and then squash each bit to a flat round disc, then use it to wrap around a smallish pill (or a half or quarter of a largish pill). I have to be really careful not to touch the treat with the fingers that have touched the pill... I cut them all up and actually use tweezers to grab the pill and place it in the little disc I'm holding in my other hand. Sometimes if he won't take it or bites through the protective coating and spits it out, I can often get him to take the same pill by just wrapping it again, but if I have handled the pill I make sure to wash hands really well before making the second one. If he still won't take it, sometimes waiting an hour and offering again will work.

[kriatyrr.livejournal.com]

I use the pill pockets with my cat too. She's got feline hyperthyroidism, so that means daily medication. She doesn't *hate* her meds, she's just not interested in them, so *I* have no difficulty making her swallow them, but she is a bit uncomfortable. Had to import a large shipment of pill pockets before my trip to the US because it would make things so much easier both for the cat and cat-sitter in my absence. There would be blood if anyone else than me forced her to take a pill.

No idea why we can't buy pill pockets in Norway...

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

I had wondered why my co-workers were talking about Palin in regards to that shooting, was a couple days later that I understood. I, being me, pay little attention and didn't even know there was a shooting until they talked about it.

And I wish you had posted these last week! I had to give Naja some pills for pain, and while he took the lunchmeat I had been giving it in for the first couple days, he started refusing after a bit and I couldn't manage to shove it into his mouth. It was a pain pill so while I felt bad, the pain would get better in a few days (He only had 3 pill quarters left.). I gotta remember these for next time.