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So after going through the hell that is Metronidazole, running low on pills after many failed attempts and trying every "trick" online (textured towel mat, throwing it straight in food, attempting putting it in mouth, etc) I decided to try my own.
I simply took a strip of unsalted (REAL) butter and wrapped the half pill in it. I molded it around the outside with my fingers so it would cover most of the pill and somewhat melt to make it easy to stick on food-- you can put whatever your cats eats on it and it should stick fairly well. I made a small ball of both dry food and wet food on the butter and threw it in breakfast and dinner. he ate it up with no reaction! what makes this work well is the butter doesn't really make the pill "wet", which intensifies that horrible flavor if you throw it in wet food. it disguises the scent and taste along with the help of the food extremely well, especially since the butter is very distracting like with fish or coconut oil (a good alternative, but may melt a lot faster) and they lick their chops a lot. make sure to not give them so much food that they get full and don't eat the treat, you can give the rest of the food after they eat it!
if you're also at a loss with metronidazole and can't handle forceful pilling (me either!), I suggest this. saves a lot of wasted pills if you were to just throw it straight in food and your cat avoids it/spits it out a lot
I simply took a strip of unsalted (REAL) butter and wrapped the half pill in it. I molded it around the outside with my fingers so it would cover most of the pill and somewhat melt to make it easy to stick on food-- you can put whatever your cats eats on it and it should stick fairly well. I made a small ball of both dry food and wet food on the butter and threw it in breakfast and dinner. he ate it up with no reaction! what makes this work well is the butter doesn't really make the pill "wet", which intensifies that horrible flavor if you throw it in wet food. it disguises the scent and taste along with the help of the food extremely well, especially since the butter is very distracting like with fish or coconut oil (a good alternative, but may melt a lot faster) and they lick their chops a lot. make sure to not give them so much food that they get full and don't eat the treat, you can give the rest of the food after they eat it!
if you're also at a loss with metronidazole and can't handle forceful pilling (me either!), I suggest this. saves a lot of wasted pills if you were to just throw it straight in food and your cat avoids it/spits it out a lot