Thread: How can I give worming tablets?

Wow thanks everyone, quick responses and quite a few different approaches.

With my other (smaller) cats I have favored the method of kneeling, wedging the cat backwards between my knees, preferably wrapped in a large dressing gown. I haven't managed that so well this time. He's not a lap cat so I think that would immediately alert him that something was happening.

I took him to the vets today and was gratified to know that the vet nurse had "a bit of a fight" and enlisted help with getting the pill down him.

Am interested that people are using the "drop on the neck". I have always used that in the past but this vet doesn't feel that it covers all the risks in this area. However Choo Choo doesn't go out in the garden, or mix with other animals other than my dog, so might go back to Advocate or Frontline.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Originally Posted by Pepsi2670

Wow thanks everyone, quick responses and quite a few different approaches.

With my other (smaller) cats I have favored the method of kneeling, wedging the cat backwards between my knees, preferably wrapped in a large dressing gown. I haven't managed that so well this time. He's not a lap cat so I think that would immediately alert him that something was happening.

I took him to the vets today and was gratified to know that the vet nurse had "a bit of a fight" and enlisted help with getting the pill down him.

Am interested that people are using the "drop on the neck". I have always used that in the past but this vet doesn't feel that it covers all the risks in this area. However Choo Choo doesn't go out in the garden, or mix with other animals other than my dog, so might go back to Advocate or Frontline.

Thanks everyone for the help.

Another way to get tour cat to take the pill is go out and get some cat nip! Put some in a toy or on the floor and it will tire him or her out!! Do the same as some have suggested from above with putting your cat in between your legs. And try that way. I have 3 rescued cats and it works great!

Give it a shot!

Hope it works out for you!! Best of luck!!

Or you could just wimp out like me and pop the pill in tesco value salmon paste 3 times a day

Our breeder suggested using panacur liquid mixed with evaporated milk- apparently the cat will then walk over hot coals to have it! I've got panacur paste which is supposed to be administered via syringe but have had success simply mixing with a little food, must be fairly tasteless. I've given antibiotics in a blob of butter wrapped in cooked ham (I was tired of subjecting Dudley to daily syringing!)- it was gobbled straight down.

Thanks again for the help. Thinking about it, I think part of the problem is my aim when throwing the pill down to the back of his throat. You only really get one shot! Adding that to the general tussle that is going on while I am aiming...... disaster. I also find it difficult to wrap myself and my long dressing gown around him - it was easy with smaller cats.

Will not give up though. There's are lots of ideas here and maybe I will practice my aim somehow. Thanks all.

I never found a need to flick or throw pills, just pushing into an open mouth trying to make sure it gets behind the tongue worked for me. Smaller cat mind...