Suggest a good wormer for cats?
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an oldie but a goodie and any excuse to post it:
How To Pill a Cat
1. Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on each side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow.
2. Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat gently in left arm and repeat process.
3. Retrieve cat from bedroom, pick up and throw soggy pill away.
4. Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm, holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for count of ten.
5. Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse in from garden.
6. Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into cat's mouth. Drop pill down ruler and rub cat's throat vigorously.
7. Retrieve cat from curtain rail, get another pill out of foil wrap. Make note to buy new ruler and repair curtains. Carefully sweep up shattered figurines and vases from hearth and set on one side for gluing later.
8. Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with head just visible from below armpit. Put pill in end of drinking straw, force mouth open with a pencil and blow into drinking straw.
9. Check label to make sure pill not harmful to humans, drink glass of water to take taste away. Apply Band-Aid to spouse's forearm and remove blood from carpet with cold water and soap.
10. Retrieve cat from neighbor’s shed. Get another pill. Place cat in cupboard and close door just enough so that head is showing. Force mouth open with dessert spoon. Flick pill down throat with plastic band.
11. Fetch screwdriver from garage and put cupboard door back on hinges. Apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of last tetanus shot. Throw t-shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.
12. Call fire department to retrieve cat from tree across road. Apologize to neighbor who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid cat. Take last pill from foil wrap.
13. Tie cat's front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table. Find heavy duty pruning gloves from shed. Push pill into mouth followed by a large piece of fillet steak. Hold head vertically and pour 2 pints of water down throat to wash pill down.
14. Get spouse to drive you to emergency room. Sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearms and removes pill from right eye. Call furniture shop on way home and order new dining table.
15. Arrange for ASPCA to collect cat and contact local pet shop to see if they have any hamsters.
How To Pill a Dog
1. Wrap it in bacon.
How To Pill a Cat
1. Pick up cat and cradle it in the crook of your left arm as if holding a baby. Position right forefinger and thumb on each side of cat's mouth and gently apply pressure to cheeks while holding pill in right hand. As cat opens mouth, pop pill into mouth. Allow cat to close mouth and swallow.
2. Retrieve pill from floor and cat from behind sofa. Cradle cat gently in left arm and repeat process.
3. Retrieve cat from bedroom, pick up and throw soggy pill away.
4. Take new pill from foil wrap, cradle cat in left arm, holding rear paws tightly with left hand. Force jaws open and push pill to back of mouth with right forefinger. Hold mouth shut for count of ten.
5. Retrieve pill from goldfish bowl and cat from top of wardrobe. Call spouse in from garden.
6. Kneel on floor with cat wedged firmly between knees, hold front and rear paws. Ignore low growls emitted by cat. Get spouse to hold head firmly with one hand while forcing wooden ruler into cat's mouth. Drop pill down ruler and rub cat's throat vigorously.
7. Retrieve cat from curtain rail, get another pill out of foil wrap. Make note to buy new ruler and repair curtains. Carefully sweep up shattered figurines and vases from hearth and set on one side for gluing later.
8. Wrap cat in large towel and get spouse to lie on cat with head just visible from below armpit. Put pill in end of drinking straw, force mouth open with a pencil and blow into drinking straw.
9. Check label to make sure pill not harmful to humans, drink glass of water to take taste away. Apply Band-Aid to spouse's forearm and remove blood from carpet with cold water and soap.
10. Retrieve cat from neighbor’s shed. Get another pill. Place cat in cupboard and close door just enough so that head is showing. Force mouth open with dessert spoon. Flick pill down throat with plastic band.
11. Fetch screwdriver from garage and put cupboard door back on hinges. Apply cold compress to cheek and check records for date of last tetanus shot. Throw t-shirt away and fetch new one from bedroom.
12. Call fire department to retrieve cat from tree across road. Apologize to neighbor who crashed into fence while swerving to avoid cat. Take last pill from foil wrap.
13. Tie cat's front paws to rear paws with garden twine and bind tightly to leg of dining table. Find heavy duty pruning gloves from shed. Push pill into mouth followed by a large piece of fillet steak. Hold head vertically and pour 2 pints of water down throat to wash pill down.
14. Get spouse to drive you to emergency room. Sit quietly while doctor stitches fingers and forearms and removes pill from right eye. Call furniture shop on way home and order new dining table.
15. Arrange for ASPCA to collect cat and contact local pet shop to see if they have any hamsters.
How To Pill a Dog
1. Wrap it in bacon.
Milbemax 1/2 tablet upto 4kg 1 tablet upto 8kg. Every 3 months. Only from vets
Drontal cat more readily available these days (used to be a vet only one aswell) another good all in one wormer but 1 tablet per 4kg, need to give 1.5 for upto 6kg, so potentially more tablet to give!
Personally I prefer giving milbemax as they are much smaller but depends what your vet stocks.
Pet shop wormers not so good and powders tend not to cover all the worms you need to.
Much easier most of the time to give directly in the mouth than trying to disguise in food, it's just being confident with the technique that is key. Hesitate and you lose, go in all guns blazing you still lose. Relaxed, calm, confident you will usually win!. If you struggle see if a nurse at the vets will do it, we do this a lot for clients (and we only charge for the wormer!) Very few cats beat us
Drontal cat more readily available these days (used to be a vet only one aswell) another good all in one wormer but 1 tablet per 4kg, need to give 1.5 for upto 6kg, so potentially more tablet to give!
Personally I prefer giving milbemax as they are much smaller but depends what your vet stocks.
Pet shop wormers not so good and powders tend not to cover all the worms you need to.
Much easier most of the time to give directly in the mouth than trying to disguise in food, it's just being confident with the technique that is key. Hesitate and you lose, go in all guns blazing you still lose. Relaxed, calm, confident you will usually win!. If you struggle see if a nurse at the vets will do it, we do this a lot for clients (and we only charge for the wormer!) Very few cats beat us
Edited by becksW on Thursday 22 July 10:36
Edited by becksW on Thursday 22 July 10:40
You all work too hard at this....
Both Spot On and Frontline do a wormer that works in the same way as their flea products.
Just hold the cat and squeeze the stuff onto it's neck - Works a treat, and you don't have to wory about whether or not they've eaten it/eaten enough of it or in the case of tablets, spat it out as soon as they make good their escape
Both Spot On and Frontline do a wormer that works in the same way as their flea products.
Just hold the cat and squeeze the stuff onto it's neck - Works a treat, and you don't have to wory about whether or not they've eaten it/eaten enough of it or in the case of tablets, spat it out as soon as they make good their escape
Superhoop said:
You all work too hard at this....
Both Spot On and Frontline do a wormer that works in the same way as their flea products.
Just hold the cat and squeeze the stuff onto it's neck - Works a treat, and you don't have to wory about whether or not they've eaten it/eaten enough of it or in the case of tablets, spat it out as soon as they make good their escape
Erm spot on isn't a make just a generic term for a type of product and frontline doesn't do worms.Both Spot On and Frontline do a wormer that works in the same way as their flea products.
Just hold the cat and squeeze the stuff onto it's neck - Works a treat, and you don't have to wory about whether or not they've eaten it/eaten enough of it or in the case of tablets, spat it out as soon as they make good their escape
There is a spot on product called Profender that does roundworm and tapeworm but it's expensive.
There are other spot ons that can do fleas and worms but I think I am right in saying none of them do roundworms, tapeworms and fleas, they do 2 out of the 3 usually. (There are spots on out there that do other mites aswell but that is going off track a bit)
ali_kat said:
becksW said:
If you struggle see if a nurse at the vets will do it, we do this a lot for clients (and we only charge for the wormer!) Very few cats beat us
I want to bring Pepi to see you! 
becksW said:
Superhoop said:
You all work too hard at this....
Both Spot On and Frontline do a wormer that works in the same way as their flea products.
Just hold the cat and squeeze the stuff onto it's neck - Works a treat, and you don't have to wory about whether or not they've eaten it/eaten enough of it or in the case of tablets, spat it out as soon as they make good their escape
Erm spot on isn't a make just a generic term for a type of product and frontline doesn't do worms.Both Spot On and Frontline do a wormer that works in the same way as their flea products.
Just hold the cat and squeeze the stuff onto it's neck - Works a treat, and you don't have to wory about whether or not they've eaten it/eaten enough of it or in the case of tablets, spat it out as soon as they make good their escape
There is a spot on product called Profender that does roundworm and tapeworm but it's expensive.
There are other spot ons that can do fleas and worms but I think I am right in saying none of them do roundworms, tapeworms and fleas, they do 2 out of the 3 usually. (There are spots on out there that do other mites aswell but that is going off track a bit)
They also do a spot on product that does fleas - If you read my post, at no point did I say they one product that did all three.....
As I said, really easy to use both products, and saves getting scratched to death - It certainly works for me, and trust me, whatever I use, needs to be easy, as one of my cats is a vicious little witch when it comes to being de-fleaed or wormed
itsnotarace said:
Hold cat head in one hand and use same hand finger and thumb to open cat mouth. With remaining hand take worming tablet and pop down throat as far as you can. Close cat mouth
Win
... and then hold mouth closed and stroke finger up and down throat.Win
It's a two person job and tends to involve antispectic cream for both people (but not cat) afterwards.
Superhoop said:
becksW said:
Superhoop said:
You all work too hard at this....
Both Spot On and Frontline do a wormer that works in the same way as their flea products.
Just hold the cat and squeeze the stuff onto it's neck - Works a treat, and you don't have to wory about whether or not they've eaten it/eaten enough of it or in the case of tablets, spat it out as soon as they make good their escape
Erm spot on isn't a make just a generic term for a type of product and frontline doesn't do worms.Both Spot On and Frontline do a wormer that works in the same way as their flea products.
Just hold the cat and squeeze the stuff onto it's neck - Works a treat, and you don't have to wory about whether or not they've eaten it/eaten enough of it or in the case of tablets, spat it out as soon as they make good their escape
There is a spot on product called Profender that does roundworm and tapeworm but it's expensive.
There are other spot ons that can do fleas and worms but I think I am right in saying none of them do roundworms, tapeworms and fleas, they do 2 out of the 3 usually. (There are spots on out there that do other mites aswell but that is going off track a bit)
They also do a spot on product that does fleas - If you read my post, at no point did I say they one product that did all three.....
As I said, really easy to use both products, and saves getting scratched to death - It certainly works for me, and trust me, whatever I use, needs to be easy, as one of my cats is a vicious little witch when it comes to being de-fleaed or wormed
Have to agree that the BM range is not that successful, go and get some Profender or Stronghold from your vet, so easy and completely effective. We charge about £7 for each which could be expensive if required 4 times a year on 3 cats, but maybe worth the cost compared to the hassle of fighting. Once a cat starts to hate being given tablets, it rarely forgets and becomes more tolerant, certainly some nurses and vets are very good at dosing cats, but some cats will beat anyone and looking like the prats on Panorama last night, struggling with their patients, isn't professional at all.
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