Cats and Antibiotics

This is the official start of week 2 of the antibiotic run for the cats (well, for Sierra — for Cidella week 2 started at the beginning of the weekend).  Ciddy actual doesn’t seem to hate it as much as she did initially, though she’ll still try to run if she sees it coming.  Instead she’s picked up the annoying habit of leaving her mouth open after I’ve squirted in the medicine, and letting some of it dribble out.  Last night I tilted her head back a bit to try and avoid this.

Sierra is funny about it — she will do what she can to get away, including mild claw use, and mew sadly to try to get us not to dose her.  But after it’s done she doesn’t hold any kind of grudge, unlike Cidella (who will look at you warily for a while), and will still want love and scritchings from you.  It’s a sad sound.

I still think the liquid has been easier than pills — Sierra has an obnoxious tendency to chipmunk a pill and spit it out moments after you’re sure she had to swallow it.  And struggling with both the girls means multiple pill spits and then trying to deal with a slightly sticky moist pill that’s extra impossible to get into their mouths.  With the liquid you just have to get it in there and that’s pretty much all you can do.  It’s a shame the antibiotic shot doesn’t seem to do as good a job as the oral antibiotics, once they have that perfected we’ll be set.

Published: 08.18.08 / 7pm | Filed Under: cats

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