Giving a cat eye medication....

[Dookus]

is not fun. My kitten has this goop that I have to put in her eyes *FOUR* times a day.

The last time she ended up suspended from my leg. I was wearing shorts. OW!

[proud patriot]

1. 2 person job

:hi:

[grasswire]

2. wrap her in a bath towel, baby style

Wrap her legs down tight with the towel. Tight enough so she can't get her legs out. Sit down in a chair next to a table, and hold her like a baby in your arm. Put the stuff on the table. One hand should be free to put the ointment on.

You seriously should bundle-wrap a cat before you try to do anything like that, or you could get hurt badly.

[Dookus]

3. heheh...

I've been doing it for a few days now. Usually she tolerates it well enough, though it's still a fight.

Thank goodness she doesn't seem to resent me for it - she still comes right back to me to snuggle.

[jab105]

4. heh...

two people...one person grabs her by the scruff of the neck in one hand, and holds both back legs in the other hand...string her out like a clothesline so that she cant get you with her front claws...you gotta hold tight, they are so strong (my cat weighs 7 pounds, and she can almost wriggle out of my grasp, but not quite:))...anyways, the other person puts the drops in...it sounds mean, and she'll howl, but you wont get scratched at all, I've never gotten scratched, and I (and my husband) cut my cats claws often...she usually forgives me within about 30 seconds cause she gets some good kitty treats for having to go through it...and she is siamese:)

[Dookus]

5. LOL...

I had a mean old feisty siamese mix for 16 years. Giving him ANY medication was a team job. He was the meanest, strongest cat I've ever seen.

just to give him a pill, one of us would have to literally sit on top of him to pin him down - and that was AFTER wrapping him in a towel.

I have a siamese mix now who's a sweetheart. But good god, that old one was a terror.

Just for kicks, I'll tell you about his death. He had skin cancers real bad on his nose and ears. He was 16, so I wasn't going to treat it aggressively. When it started to bother him in an obvious way, I decided to have him put to sleep. Took him to the vet. It was the second time in his life he'd been to a vet cuz he was just so damned mean. I told the vet he'd need to be sedated before he could put the needle in. He gave Scooter enough sedative to "knock out a 30 pound dog in 15 minutes". Half an hour later, Scooter was still standing. More sedative. Half an hour later, he started to get drowsy. He'd lean over, then right himself. More sedative. 20 minutes later, he couldn't stand, but was still awake. We took him out of his carrier and I held him down while my brother stood in front of him, stroking his head. The needle went in.

Scooter howled, his paw jumped out, and he literally left 3 claws in my brother's hand. I still have the claws in a little shot glass in my curio cabinet.

When he died, I said "he's satan's problem now."

yet I loved that cat more than anything in the world.

[izzie]

6. I never could figure how less than 10 lb animal can do such a job

I am into the ear drop thing and now the cat knows it is coming when I walk towards her. I wrap them up like a baby but she sure hates me when I do it. I once watched my less than 10lb cat walk out of the house, take a look at two guard dogs in the yard, Dobbies, and took off after them. She won and she was near 17 years old and no claws. She was like a dog as she always waited at door with the dog if you had been out.We used to laugh as she was the watch cat and the dog greeted every one and was so sweet would point out the Silver.

[Dookus]

7. heheh...

yeah, cats rock. This kitten I have to torture with eye-goop is less than 3 pounds. And I still have a hard time holding her. They're just unimaginably twisty.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

8. Who is taking cat eyes as medication?

[Nazgul35]

9. No muss no fuss...

we're doing the same thing....

My wife useses a modified catch and release program and our cat started to run for the bed everytime one of us moved....

I pointed out that if you wait until the cat is in a place that they frequently find comfortable, like a snuggle box, then calmly come up and put your finger under their chin, pull back the eyelid and drop in the eye medicine real quick, the cat will complain but tend to stay put....

The cat maximizes the benefits of running under the bed versus the comfort of a pleasant spot....but we also have two other cats and the spots are at a premium, this may not work for a cat that is alone or there are too many nice resting spots....

Good luck and may god have mercy on your soul....

:evilgrin: