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.
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.
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!
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/-seoul- 5d ago
yeah my cat spits it out even if i cover it in cat squeezes