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| | | From: Frazze (Original Message) | Sent: 1/24/2009 12:36 AM |
PILLING THE CAT
Personally, I'd sooner try to pull my tongue out my right ear than pill my cat. It's a rare feline who sits still for the indignity of medication. Unlike dogs, you can't just hide the pill in the food--she'll just eat around it. The best way to get a pill into your cat seems to be the following: Gently grasp your cat's head where the jaws meet. Tip her head back and push on her lower jaw to open the mouth. Drop the pill into the back of her mouth, over the tongue, and stroke her throat to encourage swallowing. Then be prepared to have a deeply insulted cat! If possible, have your vet demonstrate this procedure. A "pilling" device is also available and, in my opinion, should be in every cat owner's medicine chest.
PANCREATITIS
Please don't feed your baby kitties bacon or anything like that, and if you get kittens with older cats, make sure the kitten food is only eaten by the kittens.
Kitten food is high in fat. Older cats get sick of a too fat diet. That can cause death to them.
NEVER to feed bacon or anything like that to cats because they cannot digest it.
OVERWEIGHT AT CATS.
The usual consequences of a wrong diet are overweight. A cat has overweight if it is 20% over the ideal. You can check on your cat by feeling the ribs but not seeing.
FAT CAT
My cat has problems too with her weight. We have to watch out her eating, as she has no bottom! It is really not good for a cat or a dog either to have overweight. They get problems with their heart, diabetic and problems with their hip-bones. I think it is good to have the weight reduce on the long term.
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