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« Thread Started on Apr 14, 2004, 10:14am »
My kitty likes to eat mice. We're constantly finding half eaten ones around the house. My questoin is about worms and shots. He's had his deworming once this year, is that enough or how often does he need it? Everytime I phone the vet to ask a question, they try to get me to bring the animals in and charge me for the information. >:(
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« Reply #1 on Apr 14, 2004, 12:05pm »
:)Hi Bre,

The worm problem raised it's ugly head at our place last night. First keep an eye on the cat's appetite .. if the cat food vanishes faster be suspicious.

If you see a casting from a tape worm .... de worm immediately. I use 1 tablet on a 12 pound cat .. the vet says I should use 1.5 but hey ... it works.

I forget the name of the drug .. but it comes from the Vet. The stuff they sell in most pet stores are for round worms only. Won't work on tape worm. :P

We generally don't have to de worm from October to April, and after that only once or twice over the summer. And this is for a working cat of course.. a house cat doesn't get the same exposure.
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« Reply #2 on Apr 14, 2004, 9:56pm »
Spyder is one good looking cat! :) I'll have to get one up of Chubb. Thanks for the info, Gruffy.
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« Reply #3 on Apr 15, 2004, 6:30am »
:DWent and read the bottle. It's Drontal Feline ... about the size and shape of a ASA tablet.

:PCats aren't much on pills. :-X

I put a bit of butter or Becel on my finger, stick the pill to it, touch the cat's nose. When he licks the nose and gets the taste, slip the finger into the throat and down it goes. :D

;DNow, go stop the bleeding if necessary ;D some cats are tougher then others.
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« Reply #4 on Apr 22, 2004, 1:33am »
Cat pills, one of my favorite chores... :P

I'd rather stick a pill down the throat of a stallion in a barn full of mares in season than do one cat. ;D

It's worth it, though. Spyder's a nice looking guy. I'll have to share a pic of my two sometime.

If you have the cat facing away, kind of pushed up close to you while you hold the front legs, it helps to keep from getting scratched. A vet showed me once.


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« Reply #5 on Apr 22, 2004, 10:32am »
;)That's pretty much the way I do it. Spyder is no problem but...

The poor old cat we lost to diabetes was :o trying to do Junior was a fight. So, when the vet offerd to do it ;)I said go for it.... ;D It took 3 of them :P Back came 3 ladies with their hair down, smocks in dissarray and surley attitudes plus one very P.O.d cat >:(.

After that, he took his pill from me without a fight :)
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« Reply #6 on Apr 22, 2004, 11:16am »
We can't blame him, can we? A guy's gotta have his dignity! He didn't want the ladies giggling in the breakroom about how easy it was to fool him into taking a pill. ;)

I had the sweetest boy, a black smoke shorthair mutt cat who climbed up under the hood of our car when we used the car battery to start the propane furnace in the old travel trailer we were in when we were first starting out. He lost the tip of his tail and his leg got broken, which the vet put in a cast. He wouldn't let anybody hold him but me. I carried that cat around like a big ole baby for a month! Never had a cat I liked so well as him. Mink was his name.

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« Reply #7 on Apr 22, 2004, 7:34pm »
I find if you get 'em just after they've woken up or are sleeping, its quite easy. ;D
I think Chubb's had enough of taking pills, it used to be easy. But after he got fixed and the vet messed up and Chubb got an infection, that was it. I think the tube in his behind to drain the fluid from the infection might be connected to taking pills for him, LOL. Now, its all claws and teeth when the pills come out.
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