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How to Get Your Cat to Take Liquid Medication
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Summary: Learn how to give your cat its liquid medication without a fight in this free video.
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Dr. Adrienne Mulligan Dr. Adrienne Mulligan started her life-long dream to be a veterinarian at Oakridge High School in Oakridge, Tennessee. She graduated in 1977 and moved on to t... read more
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How to Get Your Cat to Take Liquid MedicationHi! I am Dr. Adrienne Mulligan and I am the owner of Camp Verde Veterinary Clinic and I am here today on behalf of expertvillage.com to talk to you about cat first aid and administration of medications. There are other ways to give medications to cats besides pills. So you can get liquids. There are also compounding pharmacies that will make any kind of a pill into a better tasting liquid but for the most part we find we get away with the ones that we have available and some cats really need the compounded ones that taste better. But what I am going to do is show you how to give a cat a liquid. Now I like again to wrap up a cat that is potentially dangerous, but I also really like to scruff because it helps them open their mouth a little bit and then I put the dropper to the very back and I like to see them do that, I like to see them moving their tongue and moving their mouth, because it means they are swallowing. If they are not doing that and you are squirting a liquid in, it can go down their trachea. So you want to see them moving their tongue, moving their jaw, acting like they are eating. So that is how you give him a liquid medicine.
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Thank you! My cat is sick right now with a URI and I can use this to teach my boyfriend how to give him his antibiotics when I'm not around.
My daughter's cat needed medicine while visiting "grandma". The cat is a psycho cat and when I learned he had to have liquid medicine and I thought NO WAY. The video was extremely helpful and the liquid medicine actually made it in the cat's mouth instead of all over me. Thank you for this helpful learning tool.