Whoosey and Bastian are both on Clavamox for the nastiest upper respiratory infection I've ever seen... No idea where it came from, but it seems to go from virtually no symptoms straight to ear/nose/eye gunk -- and in Whoosey's case, moved to the inner/middle ear. So I have one little miserable gray cat (who has a history of catastrophic heart problems when sick) sneezing, pawing at his ears/nose, and .and a little tuxedo kitty that looks relatively fine but keeps staggering/falling sideways. :-(

I mentioned to a clerk last week that all of the canned food is used for hiding medications, and she introduced me to chewy kitty treats that you can hide pills in called Pill Pockets. I had assumed in the past that they were just a silly gimmick, but got a baggie anyway just in case. Glad I did...they kick ass!!! Seriously, if you have a cat or dog that needs pills, try these things. If it's a big pill, like some of the ones here are, just cut it up into tiny fragments. :-)

Of course, that's not going smoothly here, either... Whoosey isn't interested in that particular flavor/scent (I'm going to buy and try their "chicken" variety today) -- so I'm still having to force-feed her meds. Bastian originally was wild for the Pill Pockets, but then I experimented with loading a few, and so of course he bit into the pill fragment a couple of times...suffice to say he's willing to nibble a little bit of a pill pocket now, but doesn't want to touch them enough to actually take a pill.

So I'm off to get another flavor of pill pockets, more food, more potassium (we're out), and generally try not to scream at (or smack) everyone in sight, because stress/worry plus being up until after six in the morning giving a sick cat antibiotics that he doesn't want (after a couple of weeks with similarly fucked-up hours due to kitty stuff) = psycho-Moggy. :-p

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