[:)] How To Give a Cat a Pill

dieseltrooper

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1. Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on either side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow.

2. Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat in left arm and repeat process.

3. Retrieve cat from bedroom, and throw soggy pill away.

4. Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm, holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for a count of ten.

5. Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse from garden.

6. Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into mouth. Drop pill down ruler and rub cat's throat vigorously.

7. Retrieve cat from curtain rail, get another pill from foil wrap. Make note to buy new ruler and repair curtains. Carefully sweep shattered figurines and vases from hearth and set to one side for gluing later.

8. Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with head just visible from below armpit. Put pill in end of drinking straw, force mouth open with pencil and blow down drinking straw.

9. Check label to make sure pill not harmful to humans, drink 1 beer to take taste away. Apply Band-Aid to spouse's forearm and remove blood from carpet with cold water and soap.

10. Retrieve cat from neighbor's shed. Get another pill. Open another beer. Place cat in cupboard, and close door onto neck, to leave head showing. Force mouth open with dessert spoon. Flick pill down throat with elastic band.

11. Fetch screwdriver from garage and put cupboard door back on hinges. Drink beer. Fetch bottle of scotch. Pour shot, drink. Apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of last tetanus shot. Apply whiskey compress to cheek to disinfect. Toss back another shot. Throw Tee shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.

12. Call fire brigade to retrieve the damn cat from tree across the road. Apologize to neighbor who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid cat. Take last pill from foil wrap.

13. Tie the little bastard's front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table, find heavy duty pruning gloves from shed. Push pill into mouth followed by large piece of filet steak. Be firm about it. Hold head vertically and pour 2 pints of water down throat to wash pill down.

14. Consume remainder of scotch. Get spouse to drive you to the emergency room, sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearm and removes pill remnants from right eye. Call furniture shop on way home to order new table.

15. Arrange for SPCA to collect mutant cat from hell and call local pet shop to see if they have any hamsters.


HOW TO GIVE A DOG A PILL

1. Wrap it in bacon
2. Give to dog.
 
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night driver

ESFP adrift in INTJ sea
OK is there a volunteer for going and finding "Washing Murphy" from the Old Board?? (greenspun that is)....


Chuck
 

Meemur

Voice on the Prairie / FJB!
Here ya go, Chuck

http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001ZPa

Hi Gang! I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaack. I just looked at the FRL #9 thread. Great Poetry! Looks like there is some interest in cats too. Some of you noticed that I haven't been online for a couple of weeks. This was because I decided to give the family cat, Murphy Michaels, a bath :) Ever try to bathe a cat? Here is some friendly advice based on empirical evidence that FRLian cat lovers may find helpful.

Though the cat has the advantage of quickness and lack of concern for your life, you have the advantage of strength. Remember this and select the battlefield carefully. Don't try to bathe him in an open area where he can force you to chase him! Pick a very small bathroom. If your bathroom is more than four feet square then get in the tub with the cat and close the sliding glass doors. A regular shower curtain will not do at all, since a berserk cat can shred 3-ply rubber shower curtains quicker than it takes me to get silly with one sip of jiggle juice.

Never forget that a cat has serious claws and will not hesitate to remove your skin from your body. Your advantage here is using your brain and dressing to protect yourself. Canvas overalls tucked into high-top construction boots, a pair of steel-mesh gloves, an army helmet, a hockey face-mask, and a long sleeve flak jacket are your basic prep items. Use the element of surprise. Pick up your cat nonchalantly, as if to simply carry him to his supper dish. Cats will not usually notice your strange attire since they have little or no interest in fashion.

Once inside the bathroom, speed is essential to survival. In a single quick motion, shut the door, step into the tub, slide the glass door closed, and dip the cat in the water. Squirt with shampoo. (And you thought Y2K was wild huh? You hav
e now begun one of the wildest 45 seconds of your life.)

Cats have no handles. Add the fact that he now has soapy fur and is quite unhappy and the problem is radically compounded.

Don't expect to hold onto him for more than 2 or 3 seconds at a time. When you are able to get hold of him, remember to squirt shampoo and rub like crazy. He'll then spring free and fall back into the water, thereby rinsing himself off. The world record for cats is 3 latherings, so don't expect too much.

Next, the cat must be dried. This is simple compared to what you have just been through. That's because the cat is semi-permanently affixed to your right leg. Simply pop the drain plug with your foot, reach for your towel, and wait for the water to drain away. (Sometimes the cat may end up clinging to the top of your army helmet. If this happens, try to shake him loose and encourage him to your leg.) After all the water drains you just have to reach down and dry off the cat. In a few days the cat will relax enough to be removed from your leg.

He will usually be very quiet for about two weeks and will spend most of the time sitting with his back to you. He might even become psycho-ceramic and develop the fixed stare and of a plaster figurine. You may think he is still angry. This usually is not the case though. As a rule, he is simply plotting ways to get past your defenses and injure you for life the next time you decide to give him a bath. But at least now he smells better!

-- Rob Michaels (sonofdust@frl.ten <mailto:sonofdust@frl.ten>), October 12, 1999
 
Mom's pure white, as in WHITE, Persian cat, named Frodo, got under the car in the garage. Chasing a mouse or something. What a sight!

Next day he was blindingly white, clean, soft, fluffy, and just wonderful.

Having discovered once, while trying to wash a cat, that cats can rotate 360 degrees within their skins, while their claws and fangs are just a spherical blur of death, I asked how she did it!

Answer, she didn't. She took him to the Vet! What did the Vet do?

1. On a table, they put ole Frodo in a harness, hooked to a pully on the ceiling.

2. Hoisted him up 6 inches above the table.

3. THEN, from the next room, brought in a pan of warm sudsy shampoo water, and slid it under him!

She said all he could do was stir the foamy bubbles with his paws! Apparently it was hilarious. Frodo's frustration must have been a sight to behold!

They rinsed him off with a warm water hose, and dried him while he was still in the harness!

But, when all was done, he could wash himself again, cat style, without ingesting grime, grit, oil, brake fluid, or whatever....
 

timbo

Deceased
How to give a cat a pill.

Take pill from foil and push into the barrel of a .38 revolver.

pry cats mouth open and insert barrel.

Down load pill by pulling the trigger several times.


Just kidding for gosh sakes! Sheesh!

You cat lovers cant take a joke.

We have a dog that has to take 2 pills twice a day.

Hand pills to dog. After she swallows them, give her a biscuit.

Does it every day like a good doggy.

Had one dog on daily pill. When we moved and had removed the furniture from the house, found those little red pills by the hundreds all over the house. Little brat.
 

Lone Wolf

Lives on TB
This is a much needed "nut" room!

Haven't laughed so much since kitty caught her tail in the fan!

Thanks Dennis!!

Timbo!

.38 pod q4h!!!!!!!

tears still flowing....:lol: :lol: :p :D :spns:
 

Lone Wolf

Lives on TB
Maiden;

Your catz prolly wouldn't dare NOT take their pills.

Understand you have "stocks" made, CUSTOM made for your kitties..

Say...does that work well...?

Put kitty in the Stocks....lock down good!

Stand back with "Super-soaker"

Well you get the idea!!

Lw.
 
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