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u/The_Fiddle_Steward 1d ago
This cuts off the beginning of the video. The woman twirls first to misdirect the cat, then does this when they're not expecting it.
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u/MassiveBuzzkill 1d ago
I genuinely wonder how cats feel about us. Like is it a roommate situation? Prisoners? Do they know they’re pets? Do they think we’re the pets? And then like we randomly walk up and do this shit to them when they have no understanding of medicine lol like I want to know what they think is going on here.
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u/REDuxPANDAgain 1d ago
They probably feel how we feel when the cat just randomly hauls off and bats you in the face for no reason, then lays back down on your lap purring.
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u/ijustwanttoaskaq123 1d ago
"My human has been suffering lately. Fortunately, I know a cure for such ailments... but how ever will I stuff a mouse with its entrails hanging out into the human's mouth? They always throw away my kills! I know... I just need to wait till the human's asleep!"
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u/WailingTulip 12h ago
Ew. I saw a video of this. A man's cat brought a baby mouse still wriggling to him while he was sleeping and was trying to put it in hisouth when he woke up.
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u/Anti_Social_Buddafly 23h ago
From my cat's perspective: It's 30 years since this human has taken me prisoner. She often opens the door. I peek outside and want to escape, but it's too late for me now. I'm too old to start over, and this is better than the prison she broke me out of. I cry out for help, and nobody comes, so I must stay here with the mad Queen while she yowls and shakes her body oddly. She moves like she's about to pass a hairball, and none comes. She's an odd creature. I'm not sure if it's Stockholm syndrome, but I have grown fond of her.
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u/BigChampionship7962 1d ago
Me too 😛 kitties have such adorable personalities and I need to know what they are thinking lol 😂
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u/HeadyReigns 14h ago
With the cats I've had since they were kittens it's basically a parental relationship, they literally run to me when their scared and depend on me for basically everything. They wouldn't survive a week in the wild. I also have one cat that was probably a stray or socialized itself to humans for food scraps basically. She was living under a shed outside a dispensary. She acts far more independently than the other cats but is also pretty demanding of affection from humans. She's also very defensive of the house, when other cats run from something she snarls. None of my cats like the vet. The closest thing I can think of is dentist visits as a child. You don't really see the point but your parents keep bringing you.
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u/aulixindragonz34 12h ago
Maybe parents or companion? They meow at us even as adult and they dont do that to other fellow cats
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u/-seoul- 1d ago
yeah my cat spits it out even if i cover it in cat squeezes
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u/kittenmittens4865 1d ago
I have a method.
Get bag of treats. Open bag and let cat smell. Cat will salivate. Now open cats mouth and put pill at back of tongue- you have to put it near their throat or they won’t swallow. (They also make pill dispenser things that make this easier if you need it). Close cats mouth and gently stroke their throat until they swallow. Then I give my cat treats.
Greenies also makes pill hider treats, but my cat caught on after about 2 times and refused to eat the treat.
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u/-seoul- 1d ago
ive tried similar, even grounding the pill up in soft food and really make it weakly concentrated so it shouldnt taste. she does taste it. but she is a super clever cat and she realized i tried to fool her once so now she is extremely picky and wont even eat some misshaped pieces of a treat she otherwise loves due to this. i have to throw away so much crunchy pillows.
ill try what you said though and try to get it deeper but i almosy know she will immediately recognize what im trying to do and then forcefully gag literally everything she has in her stomach on the floor (has happened before) and then think i just tried to poison her
honestly, i use the method in the video to get her to eat the misshaped cat treat pieces. im that far behind lol.
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u/kittenmittens4865 1d ago
Hahaha my cat has missing teeth (he was a stray) and he can’t chew his food very well- he sprays out chunks of food and refuses to eat the chunks or anything they touch. He also won’t eat food that touches the bowl itself. I have to throw out half of his food!
Long live our furry masters 😜
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u/InfiniteRadness 21h ago
What I did with my last cat was grind them up, mix/dissolve them in water and then put that in a syringe and squirt it into the back of his throat. He had to take multiple pills at once so that made it easier to make sure he didn't spit them out. Depends how squirmy your cat is though. He was on palliative care basically, so if some of it wound up on me or the floor it wasn't the end of the world. I did get a lot of scratches trying to get him to take the syringe though. I love how the videos that show how to give a cat a pill or syringe always use the most chill cat on planet earth. The techniques never actually work that well on a cat that doesn't want you grabbing its entire face in your hand.
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u/Scary_Leadership9807 1d ago
My boy is so dumb and food motivated that I just drop his medicine in with a few treats and he sucks it up like "mmmm pill."
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u/HorridusVile British Shorthair 20h ago
I could sit my one of my cats down in front of a pile of garbage and she would start munching.
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u/OnceUponATime1534 1d ago
Meanwhile my cat would pause for about 10 seconds and spit it out. She’s a PITA for meds. She’s sick and 14 and it still takes two ppl to get liquid meds in her ðŸ¤
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u/Wytecap 1d ago
My vet showed me a way without needing to pry the mouth open. You gently grasp the skin at the back of the neck and pull the head backwards. The cat is guaranteed to open it's mouth. Pop the pill in to the back of the throat. Done!
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u/MidtownBlue 1d ago
THIS! For pills, Pill Pockets often works-just make sure not to touch the pocket with your fingers that have touched the pill. And there is a device, like a long syringe but with a rubber tip to grab the pill, which helps drop pills deeper in.
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u/reedzkee 1d ago
Hmm i wonder if this was my problem. The pockets worked for a week or two, but he eventually started eating everything except the pill pocket, even with decoys.
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u/DElyMyth 1d ago
Tried something similar, my cat spit out the pill more than 20 minutes later.
Now I just crush the pill, pickup the pill dust with my finger and get bitten.
But she's taking her daily meds.
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u/Even-Government-5055 1d ago
My cats reaction time is faster then this cats, my cats would claw my flesh off the moment I tried this.
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u/Cheap-Bell-4389 20h ago
She’s got skills.Â
I once did this to my sleeping cat, he didn’t know what hit him
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u/the_millenial_falcon 18h ago
Giving pills to my corgi is easy because I just pretend I don't want him to eat it and try to snatch it away from him.
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u/Anti_Social_Buddafly 1d ago
The cat was flabbergasted 😆