Alrighty, y'all, I am more disabled than ever now and cannot. Even. Pill. My. Own. Senior. Cat. Manually.
So, that is sad. Moving on. Tink will normally have a good appetite the first attempt and second attempt at "slipping her a mickey" with pate or smoothly supersoft food. Then, we start to face food diversion.
Our latest successes have been with Weruva Slide n Serve chicken/small mackerel/sardine combos (I avoid tuna like the plague due to mercury in excess in large carnivorous fish) and TikiCat's Velvet line of pouched soft pates.
What other success have you with lacing your chronically medicated daily cat's food? Once upon a time, long long looooong ago, Fancy Feast Shrimp Sole and Cod, Teal green Can, was the ultimate success. No longer, moot. But, Slide n Serve, Velvet, WOOT!
Share, please, your tools, the vehicles, to get your kitties to take their chronic meds during times such as these, when vets and veterinary staff are overworked, underpaid, and just cannot answer yet another email query asking them to help me troubleshoot the Tinkmeister once again after we had an ECC visit post poor-petsitting, and my only senior dog left, El, had a terrible time emergently boarding at a place the crowded shelter selected, as they were already full of boarding pets of hospitalized and deceased pet owners.
Both had emergent visits that others had to pay for, as I acutely have exhausted my funds and resources prior to COVID19 on 4 senior/geriatrics' care that led to their end of life in the past year, good deaths after good lives. I refuse to allow Tink or El to be by-products of a pandemic's neglect and abuse. This has taken so many friends and family already, taken more of my lifespan and mental/physical health, down the drain. COVID19 does not get Tink or El, too. Nope. Cannot happen. So.
What ideas have you to make sure these ole ladies keep eating their medicated food? They get many meds while acute, and a few for chronic maintenance of multiple sources of inflammation and pain, some are flavored, some just cannot be. Some are injected, some just cannot be. The ones they must ingest, there is no alternative route of administration. 2 of the meds are very bitter, so I don't add any other med to the tsp with that med in it, and try to get them to just swallow the tidbit whole. Some days the 1/4 or 1/2 tablet isn't found, and swallowed with the meatball. Sometimes, we crush, mix with the Welactin oil then the Velvet, Slide n Serve, or ground sardines/anchovy paste, and wham, no problemo, gone. The next day, they taste the bitter med, the tylan, or the prednisolone, or the metronidazole, and we fail, epic fail.
So, that is sad. Moving on. Tink will normally have a good appetite the first attempt and second attempt at "slipping her a mickey" with pate or smoothly supersoft food. Then, we start to face food diversion.
Our latest successes have been with Weruva Slide n Serve chicken/small mackerel/sardine combos (I avoid tuna like the plague due to mercury in excess in large carnivorous fish) and TikiCat's Velvet line of pouched soft pates.
What other success have you with lacing your chronically medicated daily cat's food? Once upon a time, long long looooong ago, Fancy Feast Shrimp Sole and Cod, Teal green Can, was the ultimate success. No longer, moot. But, Slide n Serve, Velvet, WOOT!
Share, please, your tools, the vehicles, to get your kitties to take their chronic meds during times such as these, when vets and veterinary staff are overworked, underpaid, and just cannot answer yet another email query asking them to help me troubleshoot the Tinkmeister once again after we had an ECC visit post poor-petsitting, and my only senior dog left, El, had a terrible time emergently boarding at a place the crowded shelter selected, as they were already full of boarding pets of hospitalized and deceased pet owners.
Both had emergent visits that others had to pay for, as I acutely have exhausted my funds and resources prior to COVID19 on 4 senior/geriatrics' care that led to their end of life in the past year, good deaths after good lives. I refuse to allow Tink or El to be by-products of a pandemic's neglect and abuse. This has taken so many friends and family already, taken more of my lifespan and mental/physical health, down the drain. COVID19 does not get Tink or El, too. Nope. Cannot happen. So.
What ideas have you to make sure these ole ladies keep eating their medicated food? They get many meds while acute, and a few for chronic maintenance of multiple sources of inflammation and pain, some are flavored, some just cannot be. Some are injected, some just cannot be. The ones they must ingest, there is no alternative route of administration. 2 of the meds are very bitter, so I don't add any other med to the tsp with that med in it, and try to get them to just swallow the tidbit whole. Some days the 1/4 or 1/2 tablet isn't found, and swallowed with the meatball. Sometimes, we crush, mix with the Welactin oil then the Velvet, Slide n Serve, or ground sardines/anchovy paste, and wham, no problemo, gone. The next day, they taste the bitter med, the tylan, or the prednisolone, or the metronidazole, and we fail, epic fail.
