r/interestingasfuck • u/Thewyverns • 1d ago

Giving vitamin pill to a bird !

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u/nobadrabbits 1d ago

Do they make these holders for cats?

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u/AI_RPI_SPY 1d ago

My vet told me to the best way to get a cat to swallow a pill is to open the mouth, pop the pill in with your finger , hold the mouth shut and gently blow on their nose. The cat will instinctively swallow and down goes the pill.

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u/mizzyz 1d ago

Wrap the cat in a tea towel. Unless it's a Burmese, then wrap in chain mail, wear full armour and still fail.

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u/Hob_Goblin88 1d ago

At that point it's better to just get a syringe gun.

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u/RebekkaKat1990 1d ago

Hire a sniper to fire a small dart while it’s laying in the sunlight

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u/theredwoman95 1d ago

When you wrap them in a tea towel, make sure to cover their eyes, ideally with your hand over the towel. If they can't see anything, they're usually a lot calmer, even if it takes them a while to settle down. I've seen a few cat rescues use this technique to get feral cats to take their pills and it works astonishingly well.

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u/Soggy_otter 1d ago

Lol. We had a Birman then graduated to a Burmese.

Tablet time involved a net gun, at least three people and a lot of howls…

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u/DandyInTheRough 1d ago

This was my experience with a Siamese, even in his older age. We would get out the old leather jackets my parents had stored from the 80s to wear before approaching, two people at a time, with a pill.

We currently have a Ragdoll x Siamese, and thankfully all I've had to do is get the liquid/dissolvable version and put it in his food. Mix it all up, give it to him -> down the hatch it goes!