How do you medicate your cats when you have to give oral medication?

How do you medicate your cats when you have to give oral medication?  Cats are ABSOLUTELY the worst.  Except for Scar.  Scar is like, "Yeah, sure, shove a pill down my throat.  It's cool.  I'll eat it."  Balthazar also wasn't bad - I shoved his flea pill down him without a problem.

Snaga usually fights me tooth and nail, but if I don't let her eat all day and then feed her her medicine mixed in with tuna she'll eat it right up.  Beyonce, well, I just have to mix hers with food and put it near her in her hidey spot and hope for the best.

Midna and Addsie... they don't eat much - even when they are hungry.  Petite little prissy cats.  They both put up a pretty good fight when trying to give them a pill so I thought I'd mix it with food and they only ate about half.  I guess they just can't eat for the rest of the day until they finish it.  I'm not sure what else to do.

I have heard of pill poppers for cats, but I don't have one.  Maybe I should order one from the Internet.  I've seen the vet just use tongs and shove pills down them and that seemed pretty effective.  I'm just worried I would scratch their throat or something if I tried that.  😕

If anyone has any tips or tricks - please post them here.  I'm hoping to make the next 'round go a little smoother.  Thank goodness I only have to do this once a month!

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This is Natasha (aka Nappy).

This is Natasha (aka Nappy). She was rescued from a breeder who'd let her get into pretty bad shape. She's come a long way in the last few years - getting rid of infections, gaining energy, and learning to be a happy dog. She's a big girl, and clumsy. A gentle giant, she is. ❤

I met Emma my very first time volunteering with The Animal Shelter.

I met Emma my very first time volunteering with The Animal Shelter. I saw that crazy hair, and had to go and pet her. When she looked at me with those beautiful eyes, it was love at first sight. She's a big girl, but a lap dog nonetheless.

I totally forgot to mention that...

I totally forgot to mention that I saw real live Axolotl's for the first time ever today.  I almost pinched Rex out of pure excitement.  😃  That was SO AWESOME.

Temp. Foster Pup, Daisy (ADOPTED 06/20/14)

Daisy, making a face.

Foster puppy doing puppy things.

It's not even 5, but it's been a long day.

It's not even 5, but it's been a long day.

I got up wayyy too early for it to be a weekend.  Had a thousand things to do this morning - from housework, animal rounds, etc., to mowing part of the lawn and getting a new temp foster settled in.  Got all of that done before heading out to Repticon.  😃

SO... I got there and it was wonderful to see my animal friends, Emily and Jennifer.  I wish it hadn't been out in the middle of nowhere... might have been nice to find a place to spend some time, but we all had animals and / or bugs so maybe it was for the best we went home.  The only thing that might have made it better would be Laurel, but I guess working was more important...  😛

Even though I wanted to BUY ALL THE THINGS I refrained.  I bought my beardie girls some butter worms which they both seemed to enjoy, and I bought Koopa a friend.  I also did buy a new baby, but it's an easy one - a chaco tarantula.  Supposedly, he or she will get to be about 8 inches.  They had a spider there that would get larger (12 inches!), but it was less friendly and I wanted Shaun to like our new child so I got the more mellow species.  😜

The same guy who sold me Koopa was there with more Horned Lizards.  Lots of them - and they looked fat and healthy - unlike Koopa did and still does.  🙁  I asked him what he feeds them and he said crickets with vitamin powder.  I've been trying for over a year to fatten up Koopa, but it's slow going.  They are supposed to need ants / formic acid from ants so I don't understand at all what's going on.  He didn't know that they made formic acid powder so now he does, and he sounded like he might start using it.  But I might take a cue and offer some crickets with vitamin powder, as well.   Or at the very least, start dusting the roaches I feed him.  I don't recall what he said he used, but I did get his card this time so I will find out.

Anyway, that's been my day so far.  Pictures soon.  🙂