Martini and her medication.

[MIButterfly]

The past few days, it's been relatively easy giving Martini her pill. I took her in the bathroom, opened her mouth, she struggled a little, but I got it in and rubbed her throat to help it go down. Very little muss, very little fuss. But guess what I found on the floor right outside the bathroom door? About four or five pills! That little scamp lulled me into a false sense of security by making me think she was swallowing her pills and then she spit them out as soon as I opened the door! Once again, she has outsmarted me.

So Monday, I will call the vet so I can order the ear goop. Even though I spent money on the pills and the goop will be expensive, I really have no choice. She has to have this medicine. High blood pressure is nothing to fool around with.

Score: Martini 1; MIButterfly 0. She may think she's won this round, but she has another think coming.

[Polly Hennessey]

1. I have had similar experience with my Millie. On occasion I need

to give her a Cerenia pill for an upset tummy. I always thought I had succeeded until I found pills on the floor. My solution: put the 1/2 Cerenia on a tiny plastic spoon, open her mouth, and drop it in. I then close her mouth and rub her throat. It goes down. Must admit the half pill is small and Millie has always been a compliant cat. Should mention she is also nineteen years old.

[MIButterfly]

3. I will try using the plastic spoon. Thank you, Polly Hennessey!

[MIButterfly]

13. I tried the plastic spoon tonight and it seemed to do the trick.

It was a lot easier than trying to use my fingers. I even waited a minute or two to see if she would spit it back out.

Martini's pill is small too and she started off with half a pill and now it's 3/4 pill, as if cutting it in half wasn't hard enough!

Thank you so much for your suggestion, Polly Hennessey! Blessings to you and Miss Millie!

[radical noodle]

2. Phoebe did the same with any pill I thought I got down her

Other times she just fought me so hard I was afraid she'd have a stroke. Ear goop worked fine. You may want to use disposable gloves or some of those little finger cots to put it in her ear because I didn't have as much luck rubbing it in with the applicator.

I hope this does the trick for Martini.

[MIButterfly]

4. Thank you radical noodle!

I will let everyone know how it goes.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. My dog always spit out his pills, even if it was chewable, so I always asked for liquid if it was available

So I sure understand!

[EverHopeful]

7. I second the suggestion for gloves or finger cot

Years ago I read a report from a woman whose own BP was affected by the goop she was rubbing into her cat's ear because it's a transdermal medication.

[MIButterfly]

9. Thank you for this information, EverHopeful.

I would never have even considered that.

[eppur_se_muova]

5. Have you tried a pill popper, aka pill gun, aka pet piller ?

https://www.google.com/search?q=pilling+cat+with+pill+gun&udm=14

Some non-pill gun answers there as well.

[MIButterfly]

8. Thank you, eppur_se_muova!

I will have to look into that.

[radical noodle]

12. If you do try the pill popper

put a little butter on the pill. It'll slide down easier. That did work for a few of the cats I've had. Now I stick to transdermal because I'm older and not so inclined to want to fight it.

[Irish_Dem]

10. My little dog always pulls this trick.

She looks like she swallowed the pill but then I find them on the floor later.

I now use peanut butter on the pill.
Most of them actually go down her throat this way.
Sometimes she still tricks me.

She is also a Harry Houdini, is able to escape most fences.

Next time I am not getting a dog who is smarter than I am.

[Polly Hennessey]

11. Oh, Irish Dem, I have a Harriet Houdini.

Scout was an escape artist equal to none until I had a really tall fence installed and had barriers put underground so she couldn’t dig out. Ha! So far it’s working.