Good luck with the cleaning out the drain tube.  Maybe you could get him to
take the pills in some yummy food.
I'll bet he feels a lot better with that infection drained.
Annie

You have my sympathy, Nik.  I've had to give liquid herbs to Little Bit
now since September when they told me she was dying in 4-5 days. (grin)
This will be a life time thing.  Though she is a L-O-N-G ways from 19.5
LBs !!!!!!!!  She is maybe 7-8 Lbs at the very most.  We will be
thinking and purring for you and Mojo when it's pill time and drainage
time.  Here's praying that things go well as I'm sure they will with a
good parent taking care of him.

BTW, have you tried one of the plastic and rubber 'pill poppers' ?  They
have worked really well for me at times, depending upon the individual
cat. (grin)  Makes me think of that thing that goes around the Net every
once in a while about How to Give a Cat a Pill !!!! LOL

Purrs & Hugs,
BlueBird

The older I get.......... the better I was !!
To e-mail direct, remove the hutch.

 Poor baby! More purrs and prayers for him, and some for you too that
medicating the baby won't be too hard. And I thought Jazz was big at 17 lbs!
 Jazz & his mama
 --

 Irulan
 from the stars we came, to the stars we return
 from now until the end of time

 > > Had to take him the TED as he'd developed a bad limp. As I suspected
 > > it turned out to be an abscess which will have to lanced and drained
 > > (ugh) Anyway, he should be home this evening.
 >
 > He's home, very groggy with a big drain tube in his shoulder and a large
 > shaved patch. Now we have the fun of giving him his antibiotic pulls and
 > flushing out the drainage tube for the next few days, which won't be
easy
 > ;-0 Try holding down a 19.5LB cat that doesn't like pills.
 >
 >
 > --
 > Nik Simpson

My sympathy for Mojo's leg and for your job of pill dispenser. ;-)

Purrs, CATherine

I use one of those rubber-tipped pill poppers when they're big pills,
followed up by a special treat of some sort.  Much luck and many purrs, Nik.
Christine

Boy, that's what the BT Rowdy weighs, exactly. More than one person needed
to subdue Mojo for his pilling and draining, no doubt. Purrs for success
with it all, for Mojo's sake and yours as well.