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Kirk Is - 05 Dec 2003 01:55 GMT

So, the vet prescribed amoxil for the kitty. Who really doesn't
enjoy the eyedropper-in-the-mouth treatment. Is there any medical
reson not to just apply the medicine to her food? I can't imagine
her not eating it...

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Kirk Is - 05 Dec 2003 12:52 GMT

> So, the vet prescribed amoxil for the kitty. Who really doesn't
> enjoy the eyedropper-in-the-mouth treatment. Is there any medical
> reson not to just apply the medicine to her food? I can't imagine
> her not eating it...

Oh, and any advice on making the eyedropper in mouth method easier
would be appreciated as well, though i think that that's always
going to be a rough sell...

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Cheryl - 05 Dec 2003 13:25 GMT

>> So, the vet prescribed amoxil for the kitty. Who really doesn't
>> enjoy the eyedropper-in-the-mouth treatment. Is there any medical
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> would be appreciated as well, though i think that that's always
> going to be a rough sell...

[I tried to reply to this last night but my posts aren't propagating
from RCN lately for some reason unknown to me. ]

You can certainly go this route. If you do, I'd suggest putting the
med in only a spoonful of food that is bound to all be eaten. Once
that food is gone, you can put more out to complete the meal. I had
to medicate a young feral this way when she got sick after being
spayed; I couldn't get close enough to her to medicate her the proper
way. In her case, I put warmed food with the medication on a spoon
and she licked it off.

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Kirk Is - 06 Dec 2003 17:52 GMT

Thanks for the feedback.
We went ahead and mixed it in to the half wet/half dry we've been
told to give her lately, and she seems to be fine with it. We'll keep
an eye out to make sure she continues finishing it, but it sounds like
people here don't think there's any problem with the arrangement, so
long as the stuff gets eaten...

Thanks again! I'm glad to not have to wrestle w/ Denali anymore
(though by the third or fourth time, she seemed a little more ok
with it, still it was obviously not her first preference...)

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Dennis Carr - 05 Dec 2003 15:52 GMT

Probably not, as it will alter the flavor.

The droppers are also not efficient - my vet gave us oral syringes for
administering clavamox and cephalexin (sp), I would suggest seeing if you
can get those.

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Yngver - 05 Dec 2003 15:59 GMT

: Dennis Carr ke6isf@spamcop.net wrote:

>Probably not, as it will alter the flavor.
>
>The droppers are also not efficient - my vet gave us oral syringes for
>administering clavamox and cephalexin (sp), I would suggest seeing if you
>can get those.

Or just ask for pills. I only tried the liquid amoxicillin once, when one of
our cats was a kitten. She took it okay at first, but after a couple days it
became a battle resulting in pink goo all over everything. You can try putting
it in food, but with our cats that has never worked. I've found that getting it
in pill form--they are pretty small pills--is easier to deal with than trying
to get the liquid down them.

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Christine Burel - 06 Dec 2003 02:26 GMT

Well, I was faced with trying to give my former feral (still a work in
progress!) this stuff and what I did was get some Yoplait custard vanilla
yogurt and put it on a spoon and then place the amoxidrops next to it. In
the process of licking the yogurt off, he got some of the medicine, too, got
used to the added flavor (I also kept adding the yummy vanilla yogurt to the
spoon, too, so if he wanted the yogurt he had to put up with the meds.) and
I was lucky enough that he ate it all that way. I did have to keep adding
the pink stuff to the spoon; wouldn't go down in one dose this way. At the
end he got more of the pure vanilla yogurt. I was very grateful it worked
out; hope it will for you, too.
Christine

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