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[luciab]

I had a pretty good day yesterday, right up till the very last minute.

The cats that went to the vet have pills they are supposed to get twice a day. Molly has been reasonably good so far, though she's staring to slink off when she sees me coming toward her. Carmen is getting in touch with her inner eel and I'm having a hell of a time. In fact, I'm pretty sure the pill this AM is somewhere besides inside her. Question for you cat people: would putting peanut butter on the pill help? These are cut up and apparently taste really nasty. I'm hoping the PB would coat it enough to get it down the throat without the nasty flavor. I know PB works for dogs, but don't know about cats.

I spent all day working on homework for one of my classes. We have to answer 7 questions, describe the steps we took to find the answer, and provide citations, book locations and call numbers if appropriate. I had 6 of them done and was pretty damned pleased with myself. I was saving fairly frequently, too. I was so proud. I was working on the laptop and when I went to email the doc to myself so I could finish on the Mac and print, the doc wasn't there. It wasn't anywhere. In fact, when I hit the "file" menu in Word it didn't even show the document as one I had been working on. I had downloaded the doc from online and all I can think is that it was saving to some mysterious place in the ether, which of course has now been cleared.

Today I get to re-create all my work.

Comments

[anonamys.livejournal.com]

Oh, I have *so* been bitten by the "save" for a document I downloaded. When you download, it typically goes to a temp folder, and it varies a bit by computer, but it may have indeed vanished into the ether. Moral: use 'Save As' for saving downloaded files. That sucks. So does pilling a cat.

I'd say peanut butter won't help much--it'll just make it stick to your fingers. I've tried butter before, but that doesn't help a whole lot either--it either sticks to your fingers or is so slippery you can't hold on to it. The trick is to get the pill back on the very back of their tongue--they won't taste it so much and it's harder to spit out. I think I remember that this is done by pushing your finger in at the back corner of their mouth. Of course, the vet makes it look so easy. This cat is clearly sedated. (But I think getting the head all the way back like that does help.)

This site suggests that anchovies may have a strong enough flavor to disguise the taste, but I don't know that you could really wrap it in anchovy... Maybe it'd make a good follow-up treat?

A follow-up treat may be helpful. Either some canned food or a few moist treats may help the cat get the pill all the way down (instead of stuck in the throat). And Clive is a lot less obnoxious about me giving him eye medicine when I regularly treat afterward. (Of course, the eye thing is still easier than pills.)

[luciab.livejournal.com]

That cat might be sedated, but in the second picture he still looks pretty pissed off!

I might not be coming in from the side enough- I'll try to do that more next time. (Very soon, in fact....)

Do you know anything about the pill gun things?

The thing that really irritated me about the saving was that I even changed the name when I did the "save as"..... just missed the bizarre location. I"ve got 6 and a half of them done now, and I've even got more references than I did before.